Posted on 11/19/2012 5:48:45 PM PST by chessplayer
No good deed goes unpunished. In her cynical front-page story Saturday, New York Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir wrote on what she called on her Twitter feed "race, class, and the hurricane," fishing for criticism of the wealthy whites who donated time and money and effort to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy, and providing some on her own. Yet it's the alleged victims of all that generosity that look thin-skinned and insensitive, in "Helping Hands Also Expose a New York Divide."
After more than a week of self-sufficiency, George Ossy, an immigrant from Africa living amid the chaos of the Rockaways, with his 10-year-old daughter in tow, walked into the relief center down the street, one of several set up by the volunteers who had descended on the storm-battered peninsula in Queens.
Moments later, a white woman leaned down to address his daughter. “Have you eaten in two days?” she asked.
Mr. Ossy surged with outrage. Power was out, yes, and nights were cold for sure, but Mr. Ossy, a taxi driver proud of the long days he works to earn money for his family, was insulted by the suggestion that his daughter was not well cared for.
“I said: ‘What do you think? You think we live in the bush?’ ” He felt condescended to by the volunteers -- many of whom hail from upscale neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He turned and left.
Nir, a former nightlife reporter for the paper, found "dividing lines in a city long fractured by class, race, ethnicity, geography and culture" and managed to chide "white gentrifiers" for only caring about the poor when tragedy strikes (should they have stayed home and not bothered?)
Seriously....when is the civil war going to begin? What group is going to have the balls to give it a go?
F’ em let them starve shivering in the dark. A little humility is just what they need.
Excerpted from the article:
Al Pagan, 46, who lives in the Red Hook Houses, said as he watched the volunteers help his neighbors.
“They’re starting to realize white people are human beings just like us.”
I’m speechless...
But it’s whitey who is racist, don’t ya know.
LOL!! Great movie. Well worth the $9.95 spent to produce it. I've seen it a dozen times!!
Get ready for a doubling down on this type of gloating.
Wait...
asking hurricane victim who visits a relief center if they have eaten is now racist and elitist??
Wha...??
Yes, I see that aspect. She really was condescending. he was wise to realize that it’s more important for the child to trust him, especially if he deserves to be trusted, than it is for her to not go hungry for a little bit.
The woman was acting like a limo lib and talking right to the child, disregarding the sanctitiy of the family.
She could have just snuck him some food with a wink and a smile.
some people, even blacks from a=Africa, helo, hate charity for good reason.
The New Yorkers are very good at charity. The writier is being a jerk.
Bingo! We have a winner!
Wasn’t going to give due to the union crap, then thought I would because they still haven’t recovered and I felt bad for them...now I’m back to forget it. Ungrateful rat.
LOL! That was my first thought, as well! I had the same first reaction that the man had. Why on earth would she ask the question like that? Why not just ask if they are able to get the food they need, considering the difficult conditions.
“Gentrification” is one of those leftist buzz terms which people use without understanding its meaning. I don’t think it has meaning.
Well, if his name is George, he is probably not a Muslim. But he is an ungracious ingrate. Whose idea is it to dilute the quality of our populace with chip-on-their-shoulder Third World Immigrants? Who gives these people visas?
Guess when the whole country is brown it will look like Mexico. Guess they can go there and get jobs because our country will be run like Detroit in a few years time. Guess all us whites can move to New Zealand. We would make it prosperous then they would all come to get away from the former USA. Barack Hussein Obama is solely responsible for the huge racial divide that has come roaring back in our country. He’s also wholly responsible for the horrible way people view success and people with money.
How to get rid of white guilt in one easy lesson.
they can’t if they get over it they lose the race card.
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