Posted on 09/06/2005 12:26:57 AM PDT by HAL9000
Who am I going to believe, the Guardian or my lying eyes?
It is objective truth that white America does not care about diverse African Americans. It is not enough that there be affirmative action. We, as African Americans, are being portrayed as looters. Just because one steals a TV after a hurricane does not mean anything when you are eating corpses after four days without food. White america needs to pay up for past wrongs, and past hurricanes. How dare America segregate African Americans and force them to live below sea level. Why is it when white people take food, it is called "searching for food." But when African Americans take a TV from Walmart it is called "looting." Racism, that's why.
In order for America to prove that it is not racist, it must rebuild New Orleans above sea level.
Posted by: Cornelius on September 02, 2005 at 09:07PM
Quite frankly, I'm speechless. We rounded up blacks and FORCED them to live in NO? LMAO!!! Cornelius... planet of the apes?
"The story about the young girl has changed considerably since last week."
It's like that game Gossip that you played at parties as kids. One person starts by telling the person next to them something and by the time it gets to the end of the line it's something completely different from what was said in the first place.
Oh, and seriously, I heard it was a 2 year old raped and found in the bathroom with her neck broke.
I agree, Red Zone, and have a big barrel of salt next to me. Let me stick my neck out a bit here to say I'm a little disturbed by some of the postings in this thread from folks who seem to need some of the horror stories to be true in order to score a debating point. And some of them may be true, and maybe even worse ones we haven't heard about yet are true, but it's too soon to really know--except we've all seen before how CNN and other 'rolling spews' groups pick up rumours, pick out the juciest that fit their propaganda agenda, and hey presto--we've got hot news! Just like Nathan pointed out about the 'massacre' at Jenin that wasn't, sometimes you just have to hang on knowing that they can't hide the truth forever.
And we harm ourselves when we play their game. Remember when Saddam invaded Iraq, and we had an 'eye witness account' of Iraqi troops dashing babies to death on the floor of a Kuwati maternity hospital? It all turned out to be utter hooey--and what was the point of all that? Saddam had already done enough evil to deserve complete punishment without anyone needing to make stuff up, or build crazy rumours. The truth was far, far more powerful!
Annex New Orleans to Washington, DC. That's the only thing that will make them happy.
Excellent assessment... I have been very wary of the claims made...at this point we should operate in "show me the body" mode.
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It's called the "River Walk" and while not directly connected to the Convention Center, is literally feet away from the main entrance.
A lot of it sounds made up to me from pure hysteria.
I hope the Guardian is correct and that the reports of murder and rape in NOLA are false or exaggerated. I hope none of that stuff happened. However, I fear the opposite is true. Many times this past week I've thought, regarding the anarchy, that we probably aren't hearing the half of it. Problem is, because law and order broke down, it won't be possible for many authorities to thoroughly investigate these crimes, gather evidence, ID a suspect, etc, like they would for an ordinary crime. We probably will never know the numbers and just how many rapes and murders happened.
I got two kinds of responses... Polite agreement and rabid disagreement.
Hey I said the same thing, and was shouted down as well. Using commong sense I would hope that the average Freeper could distinguish between rumor, conjecture, and fact. Then, however, there is a minority on here that WANTED many of the more outlandish rumors to be true in order to support their twisted often racist worldview.
What were they supposed to do to handle the bathroom problem in the dome? The toilets were all backed up, because the sewers filled up, and there was no running water.
I suppose they could have brought in porta-potties, but in 24 hours would they have gotten enough for 30,000 people for 4 days? Probably not.
So long as the people were evacuated to a place which was under water, and forced to stay there for 3 or more days, they were going to have some pretty disgusting and unsanitary conditions.
That is unpleasant, but other than removing the people from the dome what were they supposed to do about it?
I bet that no more people were raped this week in New Orleans than in any other major city.
Even in the best of situations, the police largely cannot prevent crime, they can only capture people who commit crime.
And too many people only behave because they think they would get caught. As soon as you give them a situation where they think that they WON'T get caught, they stop behaving. Because they are not taught MORALITY.
Yet another racist who desperately needs to issue an abject, groveling, bootlicking apology to the President and to the American People, then retire from public life in utter disgrace.
I did see one officer carrying half a dozen handguns and a couple of knives from the AstroDome on TV yesterday. The way he was holding them made me think they had been confiscated.
"It is objective truth that white America does not care about diverse African Americans. It is not enough that there be affirmative action. We, as African Americans, are being portrayed as looters. Just because one steals a TV after a hurricane does not mean anything when you are eating corpses after four days without food. White america needs to pay up for past wrongs, and past hurricanes. How dare America segregate African Americans and force them to live below sea level. Why is it when white people take food, it is called "searching for food." But when African Americans take a TV from Walmart it is called "looting." Racism, that's why."
It is sad that alot of ignorant blacks buy this drivel.
Think for a moment. Who, if anyone, would benefit in downplaying the fact that rapes occured within a certain segment of the society in NO, uprooted suddenly and thrown into a dome for days on end.
I would imagine the rapes would be downplayed because it would not play well from a PR perspective by the people who would benefit the most by having it downplayed or ignored. I think there were enough eyewitnesses. I saw some reports from foreigners who were in there, and I can tell you, they did not exaggerate (one foreign, engaged couple for example--the fiancee was threatened with rape multipe times with rapes went on around them).
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