Charles Steele
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"Sir Charles Ronald Steele" Order of the Bath/KCB Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)/DFC (9 November 1897 – 14 February 1973) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Coastal Command.

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New Orleans had devastation prior to the hurricane. We were warning them that the city was heading to catastrophe, but we got the hurricane instead. There is no economic base for black folks. They're supposed to wait tables for $5 an hour. And people are surprised there's poverty and rage?

Everything is God's will, ... But there's a certain amount of common sense that God gives to individuals to prepare for certain things.

I'm more convinced now we need a moratorium.

The worst thing you can do is allow this by being silent. We could not have made it without fair-minded, thinking white folks. You are here tonight, black and white, because you care.

FEMA is already looking to areas other than where the disaster started. They call it free money, and they are giving it to their friends.

The reality of the fact is people are dying, ... There are some officers with a feel-good mentality [about] using the Taser.

This will be a national march, ... At our count, there have been 130 people killed around the nation by these Taser guns. We will not sit idly by and not say anything about it.

We have become a society of haves and have-nots. That was a problem before the hurricane, and it's still a continuous problem.