Looting: Black Days In New Orleans

Bob Parks: Black & Right ^ | 8/31/05 | Bob Parks

[bocopar]

Being one of the millions of law-abiding blacks in this country, I am tired of being embarrassed by the actions of a minority of thugs, thieves, and opportunists that are using the devastation of New Orleans as an chance to get back at The Man. Then again, they got back at the man in Los Angeles, and after certain teams won championships. Black people aren't the only people who get caught up in mob hysteria, but in the latest episode in The Big Easy, we have a starring role.

[putupjob]

I don't think any particular race has a corner on this market.

[jdsteel]

God bless you, and please don't be afraid to stand up and be counted.

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Ping.

[AppyPappy]

See the Economic Summit in Seattle. No one seemed to notice that the anarchists rioting were almost exclusively white. No one even mentioned their race.

[sit-rep]

Yes they do. When it is in your face, it is very hard to accept PCism

[Huck]

I offered my wife $10 for every white looter on TV in exchange for $1 to me for every black looter on TV. No deal.

[sit-rep]

C'mon AP...did that summit look like what we are seeing right now?? I think not.

[Pukin Dog]

You don't hire illegal aliens, do you?

[television is just wrong]

Sad day for a once terrific city

[livius]

I think blacks are the clear majority of looters here because they are an overwhelming majority of the city's population - something like 80%, I believe. Most of the people trapped were black - ironically, some of them had probably stayed to try to protect their homes from looters - so it's not surprising that most of the looters would also be black.

However, saying that they were "getting back at the Man" or taking something that was owed to them - which unfortunately did appear in newspaper reports on interviews with some of the looters - is definitely not a good thing, and makes something that really wasn't racial into the same-old same-old racial garbage.

[DTogo]

It's hard to know what to say when I watch the video of black people, who claim to be victims of racism, running down the flooded streets with merchandise that doesn't belong to them. It's funny that America is constantly called a racist nation. If that were the case, these black looters would be shot dead. Instead, they run away with their ill-gotten booty just to probably later return for more, that is if anything's left. Poverty didn't cause people to steal en mass. As designed, those looters have been told they've been kept down. They were told they will never have any opportunities in life. They were told they'll never have the things that would make their lives complete. And guess who told them that? The very people who aren't there now condemning this public display of lawlessness. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Liberals and Democrats have created the aura in the black community that they understand the problems and feel the pain. However, they never seem to have any medicine. They consistently deny blacks to abandon the lousy public schools black politicians would never send their own kids to. They push blacks into experimental programs that result in teen pregnancy rates that would never be tolerated in the subburbs. Yet they seem to almost expect blacks to behave like rabid animals in the face of disaster and find ways to make us feel that it should be expected.

This guy sounds like a real Uncle Tom. /sarc

[i_dont_chat]

"Poverty didn't cause people to steal en masse. As designed, those looters have been told they've been kept down. They were told they will never have any opportunities in life. They were told they'll never have the things that would make their lives complete. And guess who told them that? The very people who aren't there now condemning this public display of lawlessness."

Can there be no stopping the damage this liberal bleeding-heart media is causing?

[mware]

Remember that wonderful woman interviewed as she waited in line for 3 hours to get into the supedome.

Lots of good and decent folks will not be seen on tv. Keep it in mind.

[Joe 6-pack]

The looting could be quickly brought to an end if somebody would remind Governor Blanco that all those goods were leaving the stores without having had the state sales tax assessed.

The crackdown would be swift and merciless.

[ElCapusto]

If the order was given to shoot looters on sight only one, or possibly two, would be killed.

[Antoninus]

This much be pretty hard to watch indeed if you're black and law-abiding. As someone of Italian heritage--a group with no small history of brigandage, particularly in southern Italy--if I saw a bunch of Italians looting like this, I'd denounce them in the strongest possible terms.

Unless you're taking food, blankets, or other essentials, there's simply no excuse.

[AppyPappy]

Actually, the Summit was more violent. This just seems to be open season on stores. But it's not a "black" thing.

[AppyPappy]

Trapped? Most of those looters look like they could have left under their own power. I believe a whole lot of people stuck around because it was fixing to be Christmas.

[sit-rep]

Ya okay man...