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.
All of which serves the MSM agenda. They get to bash the administration over the chaos and disorder, while at the same time smug liberals get to feel paternalistic smugness over "those people", reassuring themselves that their "dependant constituencies" really need their enlightened guidence.
Liberals really do have the mindset of Louis Terman and Madison Grant.
I think the writer made some good points and was re-iterating what Bill Cosby has been speaking about, albeit in a different manner.
The writer is jamaican, a caribean, and is probably upset that the race-baiters are touting all blacks as AfricanAmerican, when, in fact, many of those blacks in the area are of Caribean Black descent.
Caribean black doesn't like to be lumped with African Black.
The article would be a lot better without this line.
Dont blame the fathers.
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN WERE LOOTERS
FEMALE COPS ON FEMINIST DOLE LOOTED
B S
BLAME FEMINIST MOTHERS GAYS AND DEMOCRACY RAPE EXPECTATION MOTIVATED PEOPLE
AND BLAME THE DEADBEAT DAD LOOT RHETORIC TOO
I love Bill Whittle. This is long, but it's one of Bill's best, imho. I hope people will use their ping lists to get it out to lots of readers.
Perhaps, but there were a lot of folks in New Orleans doing their part to perpetuate the stereotype.
I have been saying this for days. Crime is a symptom of dysfunctional families.
FWIW, Jamaica Star is a controversial tabloid of note. I used to read it a lot, still do. Leighton Levy is sometimes a drama queen imho.
Also, the only reason I posted to this article is because it just proves to me the agenda that the MSM in this country has for black people. The REAL agenda.
"Watch for the gun control nuts to come out in force."
They are already there. I heard one liberal blame Wal-Mart for having the guns to be stolen.
There is apparently a dark side to white people, posting idiotic things like this.
When a white commits a crime, do we worry about the stain he leaves on our race?
I think this posting deserves the ZOT.
Crime is from democracy mindsets promoting terrorist troop empowerment through gay and feminist loot and rape
And when this is all over, they'll be nailing him for grand theft auto, while they'll probably never go after the looters, even that lady copy looter I saw on TV (yes, the cops are looting).
I've noticed this with poor white working class here on Long Island. Yet, that phenomena gets more play because the media loves to show someone like Harry Belafonte calling someone a house negro,etc. I've not really noticed this phenomena with the rich.
And spare me the "should use cloth diapers or old sheets or rags" rant. Where do you wash them? And, these days, who knows how to fold the darn things anyway!
I believe the vast majority of people of all races are basically good, otherwise civilization would have ceased to exist a long time ago. There are people with genetic predispositions to steal, murder, and create mayhem, but they are the product of culture and individual mental deficiencies, and they exist in all races.
In English, please...
I absolutely blame the fathers.
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN WERE LOOTERS
Why are you shouting?
You have clearly missed the obvious: men and women who are well-raised in a two-parent home are unlikely to loot.
I would guess that 90% of the looters, male and female, grew up in a household with no father.
I also notice that bands of roaming male thugs in their late teens and twenties made up the bulk of the violent looters and criminals.
I'll bet that a large number of the men roaming in these wolfpacks had children and "babymamas" elsewhere in the city, yet were making no attempt to find or help them.
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