Posted on 09/04/2005 7:06:31 PM PDT by Cedar
"Do you really think a MAJORITY of NO residents are responsible for the looting and other criminal activity that happened last week?"
As a practical matter, it makes no difference that the bad are in the minority if the majority do nothing to stop them.
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These young white men are just a danger to us all. The Federal Govt. needs to control them immediately.
Were you being sarcastic or did you miss this statement in the article?
"The 'internationals', as the army labelled the stranded tourists, were among the few white people in the stadium. Marked out by their skin colour and unfamiliar accents, they were verbally abused, while their luggage made them targets for robbery."
I don't have any objections to the points you made after you wrote the above. And Jabbar Gibson is a great example of brains, survival instinct, moxy, compassion, and drive. I hope someone mentors him because he could become a great force for good with all of those elements in his character.
However, I just can't go along with "But being truly color blind is not PC." Color blind is a denial of the real, and it is a false way to overcome the bad that winds up denying the good too. Color blind is artificial. We are coloured. All of us.
So now, I the Irish red headed Catholic lady who prefers the Latin Mass quotes the Protestant rock band DC TALK:
Pardon me, your epidermis is showing, sir
I couldn't help but note your shade of melanin
I tip my hat to the colorful arrangement
Cause I see the beauty in the tones of our skinWe've gotta come together
And thank the Maker of us allWe're colored people, and we live in a tainted place
We're colored people, and they call us the human race
We've got a history so full of mistakes
And we are colored people who depend on a Holy Grace
These white girls fared no worse then they would going into a Caribbean Dance Hall in A Jamaican 'hood in London on a Friday night protected by a group of extended gap year white guys. Outside the sanitation issues. The NG guys must have immediately recognized the situation also.
What's that definition of a conservative? Oh yeah, a liberal that's been mugged.
I suppose you'll need to ask the thugs who singled out these particular victims because they were white.
Save to send later.
But I know why the victim's race was relevant to them: the criminals were racist.
Hardly a justification I'd want to cite.
For 300 years, N.O. as been a worsening mass suicide pit beyond help when 80,000 sq.miles has been destroyed by one storm. There is no flood/storm proof manmade structure which could ever be build for even a $trillion. There is no adequate response when city, local and some fed agencies, in the face of gangland gunfire; "government" CANNOT save everyone when they want when >100,000 people did not prepare for survival themselves.
Water World Plantation is a socialist fiasco.
The Brits were seeing future world. This week it was N.O. and many other communities unreported on by media stars.
Looting was so widespread across the Gulf states that militias shall form up no matter what.
amazingly, they still were able to say most of the people of NO were great to them.
Practically every single building has been looted. Perhaps hundreds have been raped or murdered. N.O. has a crime rate ten times the nat'l average in the best of times. C'mon, that's not an insignificant minority acting up.
Don't know about everyone else, but if four or five people out of every ten in a given locality pose a danger to me, I'm not going to go around blabbering about what "lovely" people they are.
That makes no sense. You turned it around completely.
The MAJORITY of those left behind were not looting, raping and .
True enough. But in the breakdown of civil authority, the good probably feared for their lives if they intervened.
the lad was on the radio here this morning and said that the british embassy is washington was useless and the consulate in NO had 15 feet of water in the front garden.
both the lad and the lass were very complimentary about the US military who looked out for them to an enormous degree, said it was the only thing that kept them alive.
the lad said that the greyhound busses were cancelled on saturday evening and the trains and planes were full or cancelled. they were just stuck.
You are 100% correct!
The demon rats have blamed him from the beginning. I talkd yesterday with a fromer friend. He would NOT come right out and say Bush caused the hurricane, but he said Bush would have caused it if he could have, and he did believe it was a racist plot by Republicans, to wipe out democrats. That was the end of our 30 year friendship. No problem, I have other friends.
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