Obama offends Louisiana flood victims with memo warning them not to discriminate

The Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com

President Obama has refused so far to survey the Louisiana flood disaster, but he did let state and local officials know that he’s watching to make sure they don’t engage in racial discrimination.

In a 16-page guidance issued Tuesday, the Obama administration, led by the Justice Department, warned Louisiana recipients of federal disaster assistance against engaging in “unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin (including limited English proficiency).”

The guidance’s frameworks “highlight the importance of complying with nondiscrimination requirements of civil rights statutes, addressing the needs of the whole community, and ensuring equal opportunity to access recovery efforts.”

Needless to say, some Louisiana residents were offended, including the American Conservative’s Rod Dreher, who took umbrage at receiving an anti-discrimination lecture from Washington, D.C., as locals struggle to rescue, house and feed their neighbors.

“[E]verywhere you look you can find black folks and white folks loving on each other, helping each other through this crisis,” Mr. Dreher said in a Thursday post.

He referred to the guidance as a “long bureaucratic memo” issued by the “Department of Justice and many other agencies of the executive branch overseen by He Who Cannot Be Troubled to Leave Martha’s Vineyard.”

Mr. Obama has come under fire for sticking to his two-week golf vacation on Martha’s Vineyard instead of taking time to survey the flooding in the Baton Rouge area, which has left 13 dead.

The administration guidance cited instances of discrimination in Gulf Coast states after Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in 2005, such as “numerous media reports [that] showed images of African Americans stranded on roofs in New Orleans.”

“These images exposed significant inequalities in access to emergency response and recovery efforts,” said the guidance.

The memo also cited an ad aimed at evacuees saying that the renter preferred “two white females.”

Mr. Dreher said such discrimination is wrong and Louisianans need to “own our mistakes,” but that residents knee-deep in rescue efforts don’t appreciate being painted with the administration’s broad brush.

He quoted an email from a local named Jimmy who said, “Not many things get me seething, but this does,” calling Obama administration officials “dividers instead of uniters.”

“Look no further than this ‘guidance’ press release telling us in the middle of it to be sure not to be racist, y’all,” said the email. “Meanwhile, our President enjoys golfing and Martha’s Vineyard and sunny skies. No visits, not even that reviled [George W.] Bush flyover. Just politically motivated, radically laced memos.”

More than 40,000 homes were damaged during the flooding, sparked by thunderstorms and a low-pressure system that began Aug. 5, which the Red Cross has described as the worst natural disaster since Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

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Frick that divisive son of a bltch. Tens of thousands of people have lost everything, some including their lives, and this pos can't get off the golf course long enough to make a quick two minute TV comment.....but instead, this 16 page crock of $hit comes out.
There have been black folks helping white folks, white folks helping black folks....even an Asian pulling a white woman out of a sinking car.
Frick you Obama....I hope you trip and fall on your putter and it goes so far up your azz that you can taste metal.

"divisive"... That is putting it mildly.

There is some ' divide & conquer ',crap going on!
It is not only destructive, it is embarassing..

How far back in time has this administration set us? 30, 40, 50 years ?

...Trump stepped up...wether it's to win votes or not...Hillary is sleeping it off..at least if people die they won't be brutalized by our enemies...and gee..go figure..Obama is golfing...wow...prayers to Louisiana...the President and his buddies don't care..but we the people do..

the video, obarry from from 2005... just about like when he said clinton was unqualified to be president when she was running against him...

http://foramerica.org/

Obama has not kept his promises… He promised CHANGE… He promised to reduce or repeal the Patriot Act, however he instituted even MORE NAS spying and most of this was done in secret (and he signed off on it, I have reviewed much of the information released from Wikileaks on this). He promised to provide more transparency in government, yet we certainly did not get that. He promised to end the war in Afghanistan, yet we are still there… Not only that but he decided to bomb Libya and Syria. His misguided actions in the middle east led to a strengthening of ISIS (Libya is now an ISIS stronghold, the Muslim Brotherhood gained power in Egypt after Obama called for their president to step down, and in Syria stopping Assad’s army led to a strengthening of ISIS as most of the rebels were linked to ISIS). We saw a doubling of the national debt and a massive bloating of government spending. Surprise! He also spent more on Military than BUSH did the largest defense budget ever (despite claiming that he would reduce this, so Liberals how about that military spending huh?).
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2016/02/president_obama_s_military_budget_is_still_one_of_the_biggest_ever.html
My blame on him is fairly placed... He increased exercise power to a point that has never been seen before. He exerted his executive authority so much that it imbalances the checks and balances that are set up in our system of government. He instituted significantly more executive orders than any president, ever. That is just the START of my criticisms of him and his administration…
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/executiveorders.asp
Say what you want Obama… But he did not keep his promises… I mean where is the change? Other than secretly allowing the NAS near unlimited ability to spy on American Citizens I mean?

Control Control Control is it sounding & looking like Socialism to you?

N/C.

Oh my bad Obama, your shill, Jeh Johnson, explained your absence.....
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Johnson and Edwards both defended President Barack Obama against criticism for continuing vacation in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., instead of visiting Louisiana.
"When you're the chief executive of the entire U.S. government, you can't be everywhere, including places you would like to be," Johnson said.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/homeland-security-chief-visits-flood-ravaged-louisiana-86-000-register-n633841

I didn't realize the pres was SO busy on that next tee box.
Frick you Obama and Frick you too Jon Bel Edwards, you pandering hack.


And Conrad, That ain't Obama headed to LA...That's him looking for that golfball he shanked ....

Thought something was amiss!

Just two days after a felon thug with a illegal handgun was shot by Baton Rouge police officers, Obama made a public statement.....

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/07/07/president-obama-fatal-shootings-alton-sterling-and-philando-castile

8 days since Louisiana flooding began....Nada.

Gotta keep those priorities straight I guess.....

Mentholated... Vicks Vapor Rub.. in a hankey

So far, that's been the case.....


Thats coming Tuesday....in front of every media camera available...

aren't they reusable?

Oh, And I might add...those comments about Sterling were made while on a European trip...which he cut short when the Dallas shootings happened.
No plans called off short for this Martha's Vineyard vacation foray.....

Why sure...had a big bday bash for slick Willie. Martha's Vineyard is the current hip go to spot for all the Socialist Elitists.
And ol Hillary is supposed to make a Louisiana visit too....like Obama's, her trip was announced after both were.....well.... Trumped.
Might be sunny and hot and extremely humid when Hillary shows up. Better be plenty of medics on standby.....

Wait a minute...

Isn"t H. Clinton in New England also?

Not sure what the big deal is, there's nothing he could do anyways except waste valuable resources getting there, besides, I've never heard of a president cutting short a vaca, not Bush, Not B Clinton, if I'm not mistaken, wasn't Hillary on vacation during the event in Benghazi?

We're talking a round at the farm neck Golf course for cripes sake, cut him some slack will ya? lol