Posted on 09/06/2005 5:20:49 AM PDT by jmc1969
LET ME START by saying that if I had my life to live over a thousand times, the one thing I would not change would be my race. I am proud to be a black man. There are times however, when I wish that certain people and I did not share that trait.
For the past few days, the whole world ... well, at least those who have access to satellite and cable television, have been seeing pictures of the virtually total devastation of the cities of the U.S. Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina. An estimated 90 per cent of homes in New Orleans have been destroyed by flood waters and more than 100 people have been confirmed dead.
We see people standing on the roofs of their submerged homes desperate to be rescued, others being airlifted to safety, and we have heard tear-jerking stories of families losing their loved ones. But in all of this, we have also seen the really dark side of black people.
The day after the hurricane passed, there were reports of looting but network reporters had been saying that people were looting out of desperation, in search of food and water. A lot they knew.
The pictures I have been seeing are of people - black people - stealing shoes, diapers, and television sets. Not food and definitely not water. Not unless the armfuls of clothing, shoes, and appliances I see people wading through the streets with count as food and water.
Now, if all the looters were looting out of desperation, how desperate were the guy and girls I saw toting several boxes of size 13 Nikes? How desperate was the fellow with the stack of diapers? What, is it that he has several babies at home suffering from loose bowels? What am I talking about, what home? Everything is under water and what isn't, has been totally destroyed.
Plasma TV?
And just what are those guys stealing the plasma television sets going to be watching when there is no power in the entire city?
Desperation? Yeah, right. I am beginning to believe that black people, no matter where in the world they are, are cursed with a genetic predisposition to steal, murder, and create mayhem.
The entire firearm department at a Wal-Mart department store, for example, was cleaned out and the looters used the stolen weapons to rob people. How low is that? Everybody is suffering and the black people would seek to rob people who are suffering just like themselves.
No white looters?
And it has nothing to do with poverty. Where are the white people in all this? I am sure there are poor white people living in New Orleans, Biloxi and the other towns affected by what has been going on. Is it that the media are not showing pictures of them looting and robbing? Or is it that they are too busy trying to stay alive, waiting to be rescued, and hiding from the blacks.
And you know what? Even if the poor whites were looting and robbing, wouldn't it be nice if the blacks could have made them the only ones doing it
Just once, I would like for us blacks to take the high road in situations like this, where instead of showing our darkest side, we put our best foot forward. But I guess that would be too much to ask, too much of a case of wishful thinking.
George Schuyler is right. Everyone should read his book Black Conservative and see how right he is. I'm off to do the business that God put me here to do.
There you go again.
Stats don't lie. White people do make up the largest % of people on welfare. And yes, blacks have a higher percentage of people on welfare than whites. Given that factoid, they also commit crimes at a greater rate and have a greater % of children out of wedlock.
Think that there's some correlation there? I do.
I have always came in and told Jim he does not need to explain himself to people. But this time, Id like to see the reason.
Just incase, "We don't remember" I posted that the BS in the superdome would not have happened if the occupants were white.
I think that a bit more milder than this article(thread)....
...or, was it because it offended Petronsky? Inquiring minds would like to know...
sorry.
no comment
I don't find it acceptable.
If you do not want to go live with your answer, please e-mail me with it.
Then why is it still up?
Trash is as trash does.
You'll have to ask the people who pull things down. I don't know.
Cute. Now explain to me why these blacks are a product of their cultural experiences, but whites are expected to transcend their own cultural experiences.
Arkansas National Guardsman Mikel Brooks stepped through the food service entrance of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Monday, flipped on the light at the end of his machine gun, and started pointing out bodies.
"Don't step in that blood - it's contaminated," he said. "That one with his arm sticking up in the air, he's an old man." Then he shined the light on the smaller human figure under the white sheet next to the elderly man.
"That's a kid," he said. "There's another one in the freezer, a 7-year-old with her throat cut."
The assumption is that if a white male says it, it MUST be racism.
Spot on.
What's your point?
The Jamaica Star.....that's the Daily News of Jamaica.
She is right to blame culture...entrenched.
Kingston is somewhat worse than NOLA
Are you saying that culture has nothing to do with race or ethnicity or common ancestry?
Good grief ... I did not consider that alternate meaning; I was only paying tribute to the great Jerry Rivers, Fox's plucky comic relief. I was not keeping track of events that far down Bourbon Street.
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