Snatched from the ABC News website:
"WHITE CONGRESSMAN VALUES OWN PROPERTY OVER THE LIVES OF POOR BLACKS!"
Sept. 13, 3005 — Amid the chaos and confusion that engulfed New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck, a white congressman used National Guard troops to check on his affuent property and rescue his personal belongings — even while black and poor New Orleans residents were trying to get rescued from rooftops, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, AIR AMERICA, AP, TIME, NEWSWEEK News has learned.
On Sept. 2 — five days after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast — White Rep. William Jefferson, D-La.,R-La, who represents New Orleans and is a senior member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, was allowed through the military blockades set up around the city to reach the Superdome, where thousands of black and poor evacuees had been taken.
When the news of this incident reached Kanye West, Rev. Jessie Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton and Minister Louis Farakkan they all had he same comment, "see, I told you! George Bush hates black people."
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