[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 4210]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              THE CRIMES OF BUREAUCRATIC ETHNIC CLEANSING

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                          HON. MAJOR R. OWENS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, March 28, 2006

  Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, on April 1, 2006 there will be a march with 
world significance in the battered city of New Orleans. Thousands of 
marchers from all over the Nation will assemble to force a laser beam 
of conscience to focus on the horror of ethnic cleansing now underway 
in that region. While it is true that Hurricane Katrina was an act of 
God and the collapse of the levees was an accident resulting from years 
of Federal underfunding, incompetence and local corruption, some have 
charged, and I agree, that the present blunders and stagnation in the 
recovery and rebuilding operation is the result of an ``ethnic 
cleansing mindset.'' The plot you will find nowhere on paper or in any 
set of email messages; however, there is an understanding within a 
powerful ``government-real estate complex'' that African Americans who 
have been displaced by the ravages of Katrina should not be encouraged 
to return. This unwritten plot begins in the White House where chief 
political strategists have pinpointed the obvious fact that without the 
Black voters of New Orleans, Louisiana will become a permanent 
Republican ``red'' state.
  The April 1st march is designed to confront this bold ethnic 
cleansing by planned neglect and abandonment. The march will also 
dramatically highlight the overarching racist mindset that nurtures the 
ethnic cleansing process. On several different occasions, during the 
early flooding in New Orleans armed law enforcement officers blocked 
the paths of fleeing Black evacuees and forced them back toward the 
murderous flood waters.
  Waving and firing their shotguns uniformed officers of the law 
blocked evacuees attempting to escape the floods by crossing the 
Crescent City Connection Bridge. High-level elected officials later 
condoned this behavior by their police. These inhumane, unspeakable 
actions combined with the present planned ineptitude related to the 
rebuilding of the 9th ward and the refusal of support for evacuees who 
wish to return, have generated numerous angry voices, especially among 
the youth, in New Orleans and across the Nation. In the language of RAP 
poems, I have tried to translate and convey the message of three of 
these angry voices:

                 Angry Voice One: Nazis on the Bridges

     Armed Nazis
     On steel bridges
     Blocked paths to
     The highest driest ridges.
     Each uniformed gangster
     Had an official gun
     Black fathers forced
     To watch their
     Flood soaked children run.
     They drew a hard line
     Between Black and White blood--
     They drove the mothers
     Back into the flood.
     Nazi viruses
     Never die
     They don't even fade away,
     When times are dry
     They hide in bunkers
     Hunkered down for a stormy day.
     On the bridges
     Satan in command
     Devils rules the land
     On the bridges
     Judgment day
     Blacks get back
     Stay out of the way
     Die out of sight
     The waters will cover you
     In the endless wet night.
     Run to requisition
     The tightest Nuremberg noposes
     These Katrina crimes
     Are war criminal abuses.

             Angry Voice Two: They Are Coming for Our Homes

     Wake up Black people
     They're coming for our homes!
     Monster Katrina
     Has many national clones.
     Wake up Black people
     With confusion and neglect
     They now wash us away
     They hijack our property
     For a tourist development day,
     Donald Trump and Disney Ducks
     Will have their powerful say;
     People chocolate people
     Your're not welcomed to stay
     Our schools churches graveyards
     Have all been hauled away.
     Wake up Black people
     They're coming for our homes!
     Monster Katrina
     Has many national clones.
     Urban blight declassified
     Diversity agenda mystified
     Inner cities reoccupied
     Suburban flight
     Has suddenly died
     City planners cried
     Eminent domain
     Brings savage pain
     Ethnic cleansing
     Income rinsing
     Brokers bulldoze us out
     Urban surfs
     Have no financial clout
     Wake up Black people!
     Weak tribes will rot
     Extinct among the stones
     Monster Katrina
     Has many national clones.
     Wake up Black people!
     They're coming for our homes.

                Angry Voice Three: Blacks Need More Guns

     Now hear this!
     Soldiers in Iraq
     Come home now
     To kill racist snakes
     Crawling on our backs
     More guns are needed by Blacks.
     To fight our way
     Across blocked bridges
     Blacks need more guns!
     Never again
     Will they drive us
     Weeping back into the flood,
     Next time before we drown
     We'll spill lots of blood.
     Blacks need more guns!
     They halted all Blacks
     Who came their way
     They hoarded the flood
     For their next rainy day.
     To get gestapos off our back
     Black soldiers in Iraq
     Come home now
     Blacks need more guns!
     Soldiers come home
     Storm the bridges
     Nazis fire down
     From high dry ridges.
     No well regulated
     Militias from the slums
     Are here to march against
     Official heartless bums.
     Desperate Blacks are mandated
     Now to bear arms
     Shed the luxury
     Of non-violent charms.
     The NRA
     Can save our day
     The second amendment
     Is the great American way.
     Blacks need more guns!
     It's us oh Lord
     Black victims
     Standing in the need of prayer.
     If not the NRA Lord
     Tell us who else is there?
     The NRA
     Is our salvation
     Whom shall we fear?
     When the next flood rises
     On television
     You will not be entertained
     by even one tiny tear.
     The second amendment
     Is our road to rescue
     Whom shall we fear?
     Blacks need more guns!

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