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.
Yes...... the culture. Oh my....how sad.
Now, they will get another chance.....maybe they'll take it.
No reason to pull this article- it is not a rant by an idiot on FR it is a legitimate article published elsewhere.
I will never forget the people looting and smiling right into the camera saying "that store be everybodys now"
Well, Nagin opened the jails and let all the criminals out just before Katrina hit.
Don't forget the "bling bling" (jewelry).
And just what are those guys stealing the plasma television sets going to be watching when there is no power in the entire city?
They were going to "barter" them for food and water. .....at least that's what several "civil rights' activists have desperately asserted this past week.
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.
It's not genetic, it's just that many believe that society "owes" them. Combine that with loads of misplaced anger and the result is theft, murder, and mayhem.
Writing from another country that isn't getting all the news and isn't exactly aware of the dynamics of welfare dependency and the element of people left behind. As for those feelings about genetic predisposition, he can keep those to himself. Yes if all you see on television are a bunch of unruly black people (before they saved by the glorious democrat welfare state) then you may be tempted to think so. I see the MSM has done it's job thoroughly.
Lot's of White Trash here in PA.
I didn't know that.
A medal for Jabbar would be nice but perhaps a Presidential pardon would be more practical, especially if there is still a question on whether or not to prosecute. It's sad that you have to really dig hard to find stories about the good deeds occurring. It isn't for a lack of deeds, it's just that they don't fit the news template and that's a crying shame.
Unfortunately, like too many cities, they didn't have nearly enough criminals in jail to begin with.
How infrequently we hear your reasoned and experienced observation... an outrageous shame, but you are dead right.
Good Article - on mark.
WOW!
The left suggests poverty is the rubber stamp of okay to loot anything at any time for any reason. This must be an "Uncle Tom".
Exactly. Take a white kid who grew up in a mostly black New Orleans neighborhood and he'll probably have a lot in common with the blacks mentioned above.
Take a black kid raised in a quiet middle-class community and he'll have more in common with his white neighbors than black cousins that live in the ghetto.
If people behave, the thread should not get pulled. If you follow the link, the author's pic is on the web page, and he is indeed "black".
I pray for the day we can have an honest open dialog where ideas and questions like those in his article can be openly, critically, and legitmnately discussed.
His thoughts are certainly inflammatory, given the nature of political correctness.
If you look though some of the NO pictures of the rescuee's, it's interesting that many of them have nice clean white shoes on.
"I see the MSM has done it's job thoroughly."
Creating racism via selective imagry selection serves a very useful purpose: creating viewers. Which creates democratic voters ... for most realize the MSM is a democratic machine run by people well aware that those hostage to images, and unable to manuver thru written words will vote Democrat.
Sort of Rated R movies: they don't make money relative to rated G movies, but so many more are made...
So far, Jabbar Gibson is about the only named hero in this entire disaster.
Thousands of other heroic measures have taken place but Jabbar may become the "face" of this disaster.
Yes exactly.
When do I get my damn plasma t.v.
There are those that are taught from birth that "someone else" owes them.....beit food, water, NIKE shoes, and even Plasma TVs.....
I recognize these as people of all colors....most are easily characterized as Democrats......
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