It's not the color, it's the culture. New Orleans was a racially-charged blackocracy that embraced the plantation-welfare state. A disaster like Katrina just busted it wide open for all to see.
Ditto,
It is culture and history and the slavery of low expectations that hurt those people more than anything else.
You are totally correct. It has nothing to do with the color of their skin. Most of us are the same color as the Nazis but I sure don't feel any sense of kindred with them.
What happened in NO is purely the end result of Johnson's "Great Society".
Well said.
Yes...... the culture. Oh my....how sad.
Now, they will get another chance.....maybe they'll take it.
It's definitely not anything inherent to people who happen to be black. However, as you pointed out so well, NO was a "racially-charged plantation-welfare state" where black people had been told for years that they were not individuals, they were simply part of an aggrieved group known as "blacks" which, in turn, was wholly owned by the Democratic Party.
One way to turn people into animals is to take away their individual responsibility and give them a group name as their self-definition. There's no moral component to it, as we well saw - where some rioters even stated in interviews that they saw it as an opportunity for "the black man to get back" at the rest of the world. That's the product of a political culture of that has latched onto race as a handy way of identifying and controlling a power bloc.
Correct.
Thomas Sowell makes an interesting observation:
While African Americans are "over represented" in prisons, blacks from the Caribbean are under "represented".
If it was racism, ALL blacks would be ""over represented".
If it was genetic, ALL blacks would be ""over represented".
To paraphrase Spike Lee: ""Gotta be the culture!"
It's a mindset. Uncle Sam's Plantation.....the Great Society gone bad. Anytime a person is dependent on government for survival, you don't have much of a chance to break from it. Some have, most don't. A vicious cycle of poverty and dependence. Pitiful!
I agree that is not purely based on color, but color and culture are intertwined, at least in most parts of the US. There are many poor whites in the areas affected, and though they are poor and uneducated, they are not black, and that has a lot to do with what subcultural traits they adhere to and embrace.
bingo