09.08.05
I’m getting a number of hits from people searching for a column I wrote mocking Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee called A Whole Lot Of Hot Air. Lee wanted whoever was in charge of naming hurricanes to consider “black” names like “Keisha, Jamal and Deshawn.” Self-esteem issues.
Since many refugees devastated by Hurricane Katrina are black, and Lee and her fellow Congressional Black Caucus cronies believe the slow federal response was because they were black, I wonder if she’s changed her mind? If you want to ask her, send her an e-mail or call her at (202) 225-3816.
(Bernard Goldberg quoted from the column in his latest book.)
Update: A reader asked if Katrina was a “black” name. Is it?
A reader sent this link.
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But what about Hurricane “Moishe”?
You’d think with all the hurricanes that have hit Miami Beach over the years, there’d be at least one with a Jewish name!
Trackback by Roger Simon — 09.08.05 @ 8:03 pm
Hurricane Queen Sheila
Today I was telling a friend about La Shawn Barber’s column which was quoted in Bernard Goldberg’s latest book, about Sheila Jackson Lee complaining that hurricanes were not given “black names” like Keisha, Jamal and DeShawn. La Shawn recalled it …
Trackback by PoliPundit.com — 09.08.05 @ 10:04 pm