I'm broadcast live in front of a pre-recorded studio audience.
We'll see how long this lasts. My post saying the same damned thing didn't last five minutes yesterday.
Welfare breeds poverty!
Poverty breeds hopelessness!
What I've been saying for days now.
Now, there have been times in my life I was darn broke. But there's usually some way you can raise up enough for a bus ticket a few hours north, for Pete's sake.
Yes, he is right on target. Bet you don't hear it anywhere else, but that doesn't make it less true.
Wow, great article!
Yes he is right on with the sharp accuracy of a laser beam!
I'm broadcast live in front of a pre-recorded studio audience.
The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did not happen over the past four days. It happened over the past four decades. Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view.
this is a wonderful article and hit the matter head on
There is something really unnatural about this.
Twice my neighborhood has been severely damaged - once from Tornadoes that went down the center of my street and at an apartment in a neighborhood flood by a hurricane.
The first time in ( an all white ) neighborhood it wasn't 5 minutes after the last tornado when the men came out to clear the the street with chainsaws while the women checked on the neighbors.
The second time in ( a majority black) neighborhood, it was the teenagers who first organized into groups going house to house to make sure every was Ok and offering to help move cars if the people were sick or elderly. I was recovering from an operation and they saved my car that was starting to float.
There is something wrong in New Orleans that goes beyond race and beyond the basic human condition.
This is brilliant and absolutely right.
I said the same thing to my daughter yesterday. I can't see this point ever being made in the media, however.
What a shame.
Maybe, but not for sure. FNC interviewed a police woman earlier who said they did not release prisoners. She may have meant her specific facility, I don't know. Still, it makes sense to continue waiting for more specific reports. The welfare angle has been brought up by others as well here on FR.
Similar mentality to 1992 in LA after the Reginald Denny trial.
My husband calls this "The Liberal Morality."
TRACINSKI is the first to nail it. Dead on. A bulls-eye.
Amen!
WE did it to them - if we are the government (and we are) - in the name of "compassion". But it's the kind of compassion that is a disguise for a bone-deep racism, a plantation mentality that insists some folks just aren't capable of looking after themselves and their own, that they are really children and thus need our help from the cradle to the grave. Now that we are beyond the legal barriers to equality, we are at the hearts and minds level. And the racist will remain unconvinced as to the equality of black Americans as long as blacks enshroud themselves in this veil of victimhood. Their leadership encourages this attitude; black Americans who live up to their promise (such as Dr Rice and Secretary Powell) are derided as "inauthentic." It is deeply sad and a terrible waste of human industry and potential.
If you never taught your child how to speak or use a spoon, nobody would call you compassionate. They would call you an idiot.
excellent article!!
I remember 9-11 in NYC clearly since I lived and worked in Manhattan at the time. Ethnicity and color did not matter--everyone pitched in. There was no crime. What a different deal went down in the Big Easy.