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Ted Kennedy
U.S. Senator, Democrat, from Massachusetts.

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“The suffering [endured as a result of Hurricane Katrina] has been disproportionately borne by the weak, the poor, the elderly and infirm, and largely African Americans, who were forced by poverty, illness, unequal opportunity to stay behind and bear the brunt of the storm’s winds and floods.”

Source: Bankrupt -- The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today's Democratic Party, by David Limbaugh, 2006, page 195.
Hardcopy: Copy of page 195 from Limbaugh's book.
Where: In his opening remarks at Judge Roberts' confirmation hearings, as quoted in the Congressional Quarterly, Inc. The American Renaissance (September 2006, page 9): "Despite repeated claims that blacks were dying in disproportionate numbers [in New Orleans], several months after the [Katrina] Hurricane, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals reported that it was whites who had died at the highest rates. They had been 28 percent of the city's population but accounted for 36.6 percent of the deaths. The figures for blacks were 67 and 59.1 percent.)"
When: September 13, 2005.
Contributor: AIM.
Category: Racism

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