First of all, I think that you need to take a step back, a few deep breaths and just relax. Mr Britt's article isn't suggesting that Global Warming and other environmental issues are a plot by racist white folk to somehow keep the Black Man down. He's making several valid points, the first being that global warming, severe storms and other natural disasters are conclusively linked to the destruction and misuse of our world and its natural resources. The second is that because a large portion of minorities, especially African Americans, live and work in high density urban areas that are more industrialized (and therefore more polluted), minorities are tending toward a higher incidence of pollution based illnesses such as asthma, allergies and eczema to name just a few. (You want examples??? - check out "The New England Journal of Medicine", "The Lancet" or practically any reputable newspaper.) The third point was that eventhough African Americans are suffering in greater numbers from the environmental causes, they are the smallest contributors to the problem. Because the federal government is run predominantly by white non-minorities, the plight of non-whites is often overlooked.. and sometimes (in the case of Katrina for example) blatently ignored.

You should recognize that the article that you are citing was written for, and appeared in BET magazine and BET online editions. It's obvious that Mr Britt wrote the article for a specific audience.. BET's audience, which consists mainly of African Americans. To criticize his points seems a bit short-sighted, in my opinion. What does stick out to me is that you seem upset that Mr Britt would want to educate the African American readership of BET to the travails of the planet as a whole that are directly and dramatically effecting their wellbeing and livelihood.

If anything, perhaps he limited himself when he stated:".. African Americans and other people of color can expect a repeat of disasters like Katrina." But the point is valid, especially considering the percentage of minorities that were negatively impacted by Katrina's destructive power and the pathetic response of the Bush Administration to prevent, or at least prepare, and the deal with the problems that arose prior to, and then after landfall.

I'm actually a bit hopeful that now that Congress is no longer controlled by the Republicans that there will finally be some positive changes in our country's social service policies.

Oh, and NO, I am not a Democrat, but I'm extatic that they have control of the House and Senate. It's _About Damn Time!!!_

Ocean --

As my grandfather used to say, "With all that there..." there has been no solid, irrefutable scientific evidence that man has anything to do with so-called "global warming". Pure and simple, it is conjecture supporting a political agenda.

1. To admit that they (scientists and foundations feeding on the government teat) can find no absolute proof would dry up millions of dollars' worth of freeflowing grant money (our hard earned tax dollars being shovelled to these parasites).

2. A world that refuses to learn from its past errors continues to lean toward the ever-failing concept of socialism, and our very form of government stands in the way of a global political agenda (not for long, if you read a couple of my more recent posts). The damage Kyoto acquiescence would do to our economy would be significant -- as an industrialized nation, unlike many that voted on the above agenda, we stand to lose the most, while said voting nations stand to lose nothing (or so they believe - drying up their ATM would have a negative impact on them as well).

As far as preaching to blacks about how much the "white man's" agendas are harmful mostly to them, this is simply more leftist racial dividism, which like most modern Democrat (I say modern, because this isn't the Democratic Party I grew up in, it has been hijacked by the far left and is no more supportive of the principles that made America the greatest political success story in history than the Soviets were -- in fact, virtually all American Communist Party members have come from the ranks of liberals) offerings are totally false.

To that end, I would like to recommend a highly revealing book by Peter Schweizer titled Do As I Say (Not As I Do).

The Democrats didn't gain the majorities in the House and Senate because of any public mandate, nor do they possess any sort of pro-active plan to improve anything. They were elected because my fellow Republicans (I became a conservative during the Carter Administration, and Reagan was my first vote ever cast for a Republican -- I was 25) became complacent and failed to listen to what America wanted.

But I digress: I published the above post last January, and have since read scores of opinions all over the place on "global warming". There is exponentially more historic evidence out there confirming that our climate changes in cycles, and that we are presently going through a warming cycle. Glaciers melt and glaciers form according to these cycles, despite the rantings of Al Gore.

In the last chapter of her book Slander, Ann Coulter referred to the global warming issue as the only agenda the left can come up with that will take the Republicans a thousand years to disprove, LOL.

On Nawlins -- I lived there for many years and have a lot of friends and acquaintances there. I also know the city quite well. One conspicuous absence in mainstream media "reporting" was the destruction of homes and displacement of the tens of thousands of white families during the Katrina event. Leave it to a politically biased liberal media to turn a natural disaster, poorly managed by primarily responsible Democratic state and city governments into a racist Republican, anti-Bush kerfuffle.

If you do a little research, you'll learn that according to actual law, the federal government is forbidden to take over disaster management until asked to do so by the governor of the state involved. Blanco delayed doing so, even after Bush offered...