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AmericaBlog Gets Pro-Active

President of Louisiana NAACP Calls for Shelters to Organize by Kyle in the Gulf – 9/12/2005 11:39:00 AM

Dr. Ernest Johnson is calling for evacuees to organize themselves and form shelter communities. “Each SHELTER COMMITTEE should elect a Chairperson and a Secretary and begin holding meetings, organizing, and working as a team for better treatment,” said Johnson, the president of the Louisiana NAACP. “In unity there is strength.” The idea is to get people working from the inside out in order to take control of their destiny.

The initiative came out of a partnership between our blog team and the Louisiana NAACP. Bob Brigham from Swing State Project proposed the idea of starting something to get people organized within the shelters around 9PM last night. We were constantly hearing about mistreatment in the shelters and felt that something needed to be done. Dr. Johnson came in and we ironed out the idea of a shelter committee.

In under an hour, we had a minute and a half video of Dr. Johnson, a public service announcement to be run on all Hip-hop stations here in Baton Rouge and an official press release ready to go. The hope is that the message gets out to the evacuees while at the same time applying pressure to force FEMA , Red Cross and local authorities to step up and take some positive action to get evacuees back to some sense of normalcy.

We need bloggers to stand together in solidarity with the NAACP. Write about this and spread the word.

Help the evacuees organize themselves.

“Gone fishin’…
There’s a sign upon your door
Gone fishin’
I ain’t workin’ anymore
There’s a hoe out in the sun
Where you left a row half done
I said “Hoe-in’ ain’t no fun”
You ain’t got no ambition
Gone fishin’ – by a shady, wady pool
Gone fishin’ – man, you really play it cool
We’re fishin’
Instead of just a-wishin’
We’re fishin’ instead of just a-wishin’
Oh, yeah! “

Whited Sepulchres, Every One

Pam Spaulding at Pam’s House Blend not only names and shames but also pictures the guilty:

What a pack of f*cking liars you get in bed with, my bought-off colored men of the cloth, all cozy and happy with the Reich these days because you hate the homos. If I were you, I’d stay away from ropes and trees when you’re hanging with this crowd…look who’s sleeping with the enemy —

Televangelist Frederick K.C. Price of L.A.’s Crenshaw Christian Center backs Bush and is took part in a 100-minister summit opposing same-sex civil marriage; Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr. (Mr. Contract w/Black America) has gotten into political bed with Ken Mehlman.

Bishop Sedgwick Daniels of Milwaukee’s Holy Redeemer Church of God in Christ buys into Bush’s faith-based initiatives and “values;” homophobe Rev. Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, TX is on board with the Bush American Taliban agenda.

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Philadelphia’s Rev. Herb Lusk, pastor of the Greater Exodus Baptist Church has had his coffers filled with a cool million to run faith-based initiatives by the Administration; and last (and most disappointing), Walter Fauntroy, key lieutenant to Martin Luther King and pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church, who held a much-covered press conference with Bill Frist and Rick Santorum in support of the Federal Marriage Amendment.

See a recent entry on Frist and these fools: F*cking shameless – Frist tap dances to get black pastor support.
Plus, here’s a sampling of prior Blend posts on the Right sucking up to and buying off the black religious vote.

A Special Billmon Welcome

How to deal with wingnuts with verve, grace and style…

Well, as long as the pod people are here, I hope they’ll take a look at some of my other “thoughtful” posts — such as this one, this one, this one, and most particularly this one, which I’m rather proud of.

Feel free to link. Enjoy!
Posted by billmon at June 11, 2005 02:09 AM