More Liberal Hypocrisy -- This Time it's Katrina

Remember when George W. Bush was deliberately ignoring the victims of the flooding in New Orleans specifically because they were black? Remember how he and the other evil Republicans in government allowed those stranded on rooftops to rot because of the inherent racism that comes with being a conservative?

Actually, I don't remember any of that either. But I sure do remember liberals screaming about it everyday in spite of what whas actually going on. One of the groups that screamed the loudest was the Congressional Black Caucus. They promised, as responsible and caring liberals, to raise money for the hurricane victims, and were bragging about how much they had raised. However, as LaShawn Barber points out, they're even slower than the evil conservatives in getting aid to vicitms:

The CBC, which railed the loudest against the federal government, President Bush in particular, for its “slow” response to help the black victims of Hurricane Katrina, hasn’t given away any of the money purportedly raised to help the evacuees. From CNSNews: The [Congressional Black Caucus Foundation] CBCF then launched its own relief fund on Sept. 21, with a stated goal of raising $1 million to help Gulf Coast residents rebuild their lives. As Cybercast News Service previously reported, the CBCF claimed immediate success, telling reporters on Sept. 21 that it had already received $700,000 in corporate pledges.

But on Wednesday, exactly three months after the news conference launching the CBCF relief fund, Rice told Cybercast News Service that the Foundation has actually raised “somewhere in the neighborhood of $350 to $400,000.” She added that the distribution of the money would not begin until January or February of 2006 at the earliest. (Source)

So while refugees are still living in tent cities and cheap hotel rooms across America, the CBC is sitting on hundreds of thousands of dollars in supposed aid money. Does this mean that the Congressional Black Caucus hates black people more than President Bush?