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.
Indeed.
You can't say that for sure. We whites have our share of soccer hooligans, neo-nazis, skinheads, and just plain trash. We also corner the market on serial killers.
Don't say that, dude! You're rocking his world...
No, I'm saying trash comes in all colors.
Elaborate a bit...the way this is left, leaves a whole lotta room for reading between the lines. Out with it.
Sometimes all that needs to be done is poke the bear and watch the show. I'm quite curious as to if anybody will allow a discussion of the hypocrisy of who can call who names.
THE FACT IS!!!!! It was not white people! RICH, POOR, OR SERIAL KILLERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In a time of CRISIS whites do not do this!
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."
Name me a time, and I'll go away...
hearded = herded
You're contemptible.
Fine...at least I'm not Ignorant.
Oh, you're very ignorant. Your posts leave no doubt of that.
I haven’t read through the responses, so I’m sure someone has already said this, but if you have a baby or a toddler to take care of, DIAPERS are ESSENTIAL.
Absolutely. I have no fault with anyone who took water or bread or boy-ar-dee or diapers, or even a pair of pants if they only escaped with their pajamas.
But entire sheafs of jeans in various sizes, or durable goods, or piles of DVDs, or six pairs of shoes....that's just theft.
Of course, if a store were to announce they consider location a total loss and open to the public for salvage, well, then it would be open.
You're right, I've seen you on FR for years, and you win more than you lose... :)
We can talk, but let's not be rude to one another. OK?
But if it gets insulting, I'll go elsewhere and ignore it.
OK. You said, "My mind tells me the atrocities committed were from black people.
To me, that indicates a predisposition to set your opinion as fact.
You're entitled to your opinions, but that doesn't make them factual.
If you're talking about me involving the "classes", well, someone needs to rebut what the African American leadership is spewing....Class warfare, "Bush don't like white people", "The response would have been quicker if there were more whites down there". This offends me more than Mr. Wonderful is offended. Not much is said about the reversed racism is there??
Every time I hear what Maxine Waters says, Or the good Reverends Sharpton or Jackson, every time I hear that this is a societal problem, I will bring up the fact that the crimes were committed by a subset of the human species.
You want to talk about being nice to each other?....Too bad some folks in the CC or SD couldn't practice some of that.
But hell...cutting my posts and putting me down is easy isn't it?
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