President Obama has irked some Louisiana residents by being President Obama (that’s not a typo). The Man Who Would Be King issued a memo saying Louisianan recipients of federal disaster help better not engage in racial discrimination related to recovery efforts.
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.”
Like that’s not patronizing or anything.
Yep, nothing says “presidential” like issuing anti-discrimination lectures from the high-and-dry sanctity of the White House as locals struggle to feed, house, and clothe their friends and neighbors.
Locals weren’t exactly thrilled with the president’s pseudo response. The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher said, “[E]verywhere you look you can find black folks and white folks loving on each other, helping each other through this crisis.”
Dreher called the president’s response “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.”
Talk about summing up nearly eight years of Obamacy.
Not to worry. President Fore! has reportedly been updated on the situation before returning to another exhausting round of golf. Apparently tee-times are hard to come by these days.
At least 11 people have been reported dead and 40,000 homes have been damaged by floods in Louisiana.
On the Better Late Than Never? front, Obama is scheduled to visit Louisiana next week.