CNN's Anderson Cooper is not only the host of his self-titled news broadcast, he is also the son of Gloria Vanderbilt (socialite and designer blue jeans magnate) and an alumnus of the University of Hanoi, Vietnam (in addition to Yale).
02 September 2005's broadcast of "Anderson Cooper 360" from Waveland, Mississippi started out with a report from Rick Sanchez:
SANCHEZ: Congress has approved $10.5 billion in emergency funds for the stricken area. Leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus hailed the move while harshly criticizing the pace of the administration's response and expressing concern that the money would be put to the best use.
REP. CAROLYN KILPATRICK (D), MICHIGAN: I'm ashamed of America. I'm ashamed of our government. And as a member of the appropriation's committee, I want to make sure, yes, we should approve the $10.5 billion. But it's got to go right to the people.
We submit that Kilpatrick should stop her treasonous ranting and express outrage at how "her people" have behaved abominably in New Orleans. She should be apologizing to victims of black hate crimes and apologizing to the rest of us for how they have embarrassed us in front of the international community.
Cooper kicks off the segment "Race Realities" with CNN correspondent Adaora Udoji:
UDOJI: Sixty-seven percent of New Orleans residents are black. Nearly 30 percent of the city's population lives below the poverty line without the money or the means to leave town despite dire warnings.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If we could have got out, we would have. We need help.
UDOJI: But it has been the proverbial elephant in the room and until today only a few members of the media have described what every viewer can see.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Almost every person we've seen from the families stranded on their rooftops waiting to be rescued to the looters to the people holed up in the Superdome are black and poor.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The great majority of the people we're seeing suffering right now are black and they are poor.
UDOJI: The city's mayor hasn't mentioned race but he knows the federal government can be quick to respond to disasters. [Editor: wink-wink from Udoji -- ie, if the victims had been white they would have been there in a flash.]
The Liberal-left media, increasingly made up of ethnics with an entitlement attitude and their white enablers, have been ignoring the true proverbial elephant: that a white underclass is being racially targeted by black mobs. Udoji ends her piece with an interesting tidbit of racial solidarity from an unidentified black female:
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm calling for them to take care of Americans regardless of their color. Significant numbers of people in the gulf are African Americans and we stand here because we are concerned about them.
UDOJI: Adaora Udoji, CNN, New Orleans International Airport.
If a white American had said that they were concerned about the status of underclass whites and foreign white tourists in New Orleans and that 'we stand here concerned about our people', then all hell would have broken out. Cooper then gives the floor to camera-hungry Jesse Jackson, fresh back from his meet-and-greet with Venezuela's Chavez.
REV. JESSE JACKSON, PRES., RAINBOW-PUSH COALITION: It [race] is at least a factor. Today I saw 5,000 African Americans on the I-10 causeway desperate, perishing, dehydrated, babies dying. It looked like Africans in the hull of a slave ship. It was so ugly and so obvious. Have we missed this catastrophe because of indifference and ineptitude or is it a combination of the both? And, certainly I think the issue of race as a factor will not go away from this equation.
COOPER: So, you're saying if the majority of these people in the Astrodome or in the shelters were white you say the evacuation, what, would be done faster, would be done better?
[Editor: Jackson avoids answering with a yes or no.]
JACKSON:We have an amazing tolerance for black pain and for too long after our slave ships landed in New Orleans, you know, we tolerated in the name of God slavery for 246 years (INAUDIBLE) for another 100 years. We have great tolerance for black suffering and black marginalization.
And today those who are suffering the most, in fact, in New Orleans certainly are black people and I think what I think pains me today we got seven more busloads of people out of New Orleans. There were about 5,000 people. All of them were African American and no busses had been there until we got -- they were sent to (INAUDIBLE).
So, I said where are the busses? They said they're on the way. Across the street were 150 busses empty because they have no place to take them, so we have no place, no plan of rescue or relocation or relief for these people
- First, the United States has an amazing tolerance for pain inflicted on the white middle class and even more so on the white underclass by ethnic minorities.
- Second, slavery has got nothing to do with Katrina.
- Third, Jackson is a bigot who ignores that there are underclass whites trapped in New Orleans and are now facing a double burden of being storm-weary and now an unprotected target for hate crimes.
- Finally, Jackson asks about the buses. Anyone who has seen the AP photo of hundreds of NO School District buses submerged underwater knows by now that Mayor Nagin had buses when he needed them most, before the storm.
Surprisingly, Cooper nails him with a key fact:
COOPER: Reverend Jackson, though -- Reverend Jackson, you call that indifference. Others might just call that incompetence and we've seen incompetence in plenty of places. I've seen bulldozers sitting around for hours at a time because no one told them what to do. I'm not sure that race played a role in those. Is that really fair to say? Isn't the leadership of New Orleans predominantly African American? Isn't the mayor of New Orleans African American? Isn't he primarily responsible for the safety and well-being of his people?
JACKSON: No, the mayor of New York did not cut the budget on building a stronger levee to protect the city from facing a flood in light of a storm. That infrastructure is not what mayors do.
Even the focus on looting and looting of course is unacceptable but a few blacks stealing some televisions is not why people are dehydrating and perishing and parching and can't get rescue, relief or relocation. And so why is it that we as Americans are getting less U.S. relief than there was U.N. relief for the tsunami? So, you explain it.
Jackson stumbles as he tries to absolve Nagin from any responsibility and then even tells Americans that we should not be looking at the 'few black looters'. Unfortunately, their crimes were not limited to "stealing some televisions". They unleashed a crime wave of rape and race crimes that is staggering to comprehend.
Of course, we didn't expect Cooper to actually challenge Jackson with the facts of hate crimes committed against whites. He is mostly concerned with homosexual rights and his prized Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation award for his ABC report about "gay high school athlete Corey Johnson."
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