That is not acurate. You are confusing the people who actually were too poor to leave with those who chose to stay and loot. Not everyone has a car, a tank full of gas, money for bus fare or someplace to go. Many stayed with people too sick to travel. Not everyone had the resources it to evacuate. They are, in fact, refugees.
Well, then the Astrodome is now the new Mecca. We'll see the media soon get away from N.O. The African-Americans are just not displaying ANY sort of common sense. It will soon be deemed "racist" to cover these types of stories and we'll not hear of anything except those 'refugees' in the Astrodome.
My socialist girlfriend has a point however.
She thinks I have a lot of nerve sitting on my leather sofa in my 4 bedroom house with the CAC cranked up watching my hi-def TV...saying looters should be shot.
She says that what has happened in New Orleans is anything but typical and that these people have the absolute right to steal everything they can get their hands on in order to survive.
Many have nothing but the clothes on their back and they need jewelry and the like to sell for cash in order to survive.
They have no job, they depend on the monthly check from the government.
That's a big reason many stayed...they needed to cash the check that should be arriving tomorrow morning.
So....I have a lot of nerve judging anyone who is going thru what those poor unfortunate, unlucky folks are having to endure.
And...I think she's right.