The destruction caused by Category 4 Hurricane Ian is heartbreaking.
The death toll continues to rise. Some 10,000 people are reported unaccounted for in Florida. Many Floridians remain without clean drinking water and without power.
The hurricane has also caused catastrophic damage in the southeastern states of Georgia and the Carolinas.
The road to recovery is going to
be long and painful.
A massive search and rescue operation is in progress in Florida and other affected states.
Unfortunately, natural disasters also present opportunities to
criminal elements since properties are left unguarded and evacuated
During a presser on Friday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
expressed concerns regarding the maintenance of law and order in areas hit
worst by the Hurricane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFyXjge_gJs&t=15s
"The thing that we’re concerned about, particularly
in those areas that were really hard hit, is, you know, we want to make sure
we’re maintaining law and order."
Addressing aspiring looters directly, DeSantis said
"Don’t even think about looting. Don’t even think about
taking advantage of people in this vulnerable situation."
"Local law enforcement is involved and monitoring
that."
"I can tell you in the state of Florida, you never know
what may be lurking behind somebody’s home. And I would not want to chance that
if I were you, given that we’re a Second Amendment state."
It was perfectly obvious that the warning was issued to
potential home invaders, looters, and criminal elements.
But MSNBC host Joy Reid chose to spew her hateful venom
and make it about race.
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1576236569463123968
Roy claimed that it "didn’t take DeSantis long to return
to form"
Reid implies that DeSantis’s warning that aspiring looters might
be shot by gun-carrying Floridians was similar to "segregationist Miami sheriff Walter E. Headley" saying,
"When the looting starts, the shooting starts" during the ’60s.
Reid’s tweet had a link to an NPR article titled, "The
History Behind 'When The Looting Starts, The Shooting Starts.’
The article covers the history of segregation during the 60s in
the US.
The article states the following:
"In 1967, Miami police Chief Walter Headley used the
phrase ‘when the looting starts, the shooting starts’ during hearings about
crime in the Florida city, invoking angry reactions from civil rights leaders,
according to a news report at the time."
The piece features a claim by Howard University professor,
Clarence Lusane that "Headley may have borrowed the phrase from Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor, who had been the notorious public
safety commissioner in Birmingham, Ala. Connor was a segregationist who
directed the use of police dogs and fire hoses against black demonstrators."
The piece also claims Segregationist presidential
candidate George
Wallace also
used the phrase during the 1968 campaign.
As expected both Reid and the NPR article conveniently forgot
to mention that both Conner and Wallace were Democrats as were most segregationists.
Like all Democrats, they chose not state that since the party was founded in 1829, the Democrats have had a history of discrimination against people of color.
The Democrats defended slavery, which caused the Civil War. They
founded the Ku Klux Klan. They imposed segregation. They pushed Jim
Crow laws and perpetrated lynching. They fought
against the civil rights acts of the 1960s.
Given the mass devastation in Florida and beyond, Roy's remarks remarks must be regarded as both disgraceful and insensitive.
But this wasn’t her only display of insensitivity when Hurricane Ian hit Florida.
Reid joked that DeSantis will now be forced to do something other
than "owning the libs" to help Florida citizens.
Reid openly gloated that Gov. DeSantis requested federal aid from Joe Biden, in order to help his state recover from Hurricane Ian.
On Thursday’s episode of her nightly news talk show “The
ReidOut,” Reid claimed that DeSantis must now “go hat in hand to Joe Biden for
aid” and ‘it’s something he didn’t even believe in as a tea partier”.
It is truly amazing they still regard themselves as the sole custodians of empathy.
Reid and other needs to be educated that the MAGA Republicans or Tea Partier believe in individual liberties and stand against big government, gratuitous government spending, and giving handouts to the underserving such as able bodies citizens who just choose not to work or illegal aliens.
Providing relief during a
natural disaster funded by citizens’ tax money is not socialism.
Perhaps Reid thinks Biden is a monarch who rules the country
and owns the nation’s wealth. Hence democratically elected governors
looking for aid have to prostrate obsequiously before Biden and beg.
Floridians, like most citizens, pay their federal taxes. When their
state is in peril, the federal government redirects this tax money back to the
state. Floridians are effectively receiving aid from their own money. This is rightfully and lawfully
theirs.
Since states do not have the funds and facilities to conduct
rescue or salvage operations after Hurricanes, DeSantis had the right to demand
federal help,
Biden, who also receives his salary from tax dollars, was merely
doing his duty as the head of the Federal government by providing aid to a state
in need. An elected representative doing his duty towards
citizens is not a personal favor or a handout.
This is how federalism works in a Democracy.
Reid also claimed the millions evacuating Florida ahead of Hurricane Ian were like illegal immigrants
who want to live and work in the U.S.
Does Reid not know the difference, between tax-paying
citizens moving to another state during an emergency situation and migrants
breaking laws and entering the country illegally?
Is she ignorant or brainwashed or both?
It is impossible to know the thoughts occurring in anybody’s mind unless they express them out loud.
Reid however claims to read Ron DeSantis's
mind when he warned looters.
This is a standard tactic applied by the Democrats to silence political opponents. They use the ‘dog whistle’ claim i.e. infer racist motive even in the most innocuous of comments.
It is not just Joy Reid, this seems to be a standard Democrat maneuver.
When Trump delivers a speech against illegal aliens, they
assume it applies to only people of color. When DeSantis threatens looters, they assume
applies to people of color.
This seems more about their own mindset than that of
whom they accuse of racism. It is they who think of illegal aliens and looters
are people of color.
Recently House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed that those entering
illegally into the US from its southern borders can be hired to work on the farms
of Florida.
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1575874254918279170
We thus have an ironic situation when the self-appointed spokespersons and protectors of racial minorities have revealed their
inherent racism as they accuse others of the very bigotry they are guilty of.
It is nothing short of astounding that someone as toxic, hateful, and insensitive as Joy Reid has a forum (MSNBC) to spew venom every weeknight. It is equally shocking that MSNBC pays her for her vile and around one million people watch her disgraceful display every night.
Those who should be a watchdog for the people have instead become loyal terriers for the powerful.
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