i've heard of looking a gift horse in the mouth... but NOT DISSECTING IT!!!
Posted on 09/18/2005 7:49:57 AM PDT by twas
The Red Cross has been praised for its tireless efforts assisting storm victims in Middle Tennessee. But there are concerns in the black community that the organization lacks diversity, especially in an effort helping mostly black evacuees.
A number of minority churches and groups are offering to help, but say they've been left out.
The Red Cross Shelter in Franklin opened its doors to storm victims last week. It’s only one of two shelters in Middle Tennessee. The other is in Nashville.
Both shelters are in suburban areas, and the volunteers are predominately white, while the evacuees are almost all black.
Some members of the African-American community say that’s not good enough.
“When you're different and you're the lone person, you do feel different. When you're in crisis you like to have some familiarity there,” says Joyce Searcy with the Bethlehem Centers of Nashville.
Searcy says she tried to open up her community center as a shelter, but could not get approved by the Red Cross. It already had a list of 63 churches and community groups.
Searcy adds, “You know that big headline that we were gonna have six thousand evacuees and the list of shelters in the newspaper were in the suburbs and so the question is: why aren't these in our community?”
The Red Cross says it’s because the other groups were already on a pre-approved list. Their facilities had already been checked out, and the volunteers, already trained.
But Reverend Enoch Fuzz says in times like this, the volunteer corps should be more diverse, “Who in Brentwood would know where a black beauty shop or barber shop is?” asks Fuzz.
The Red Cross acknowledges most of it’s volunteers are white, but says training is open to anyone. Since then, Joyce Searcy went through training, and is signing up others.
A number of black churches are helping evacuees on their own even though it isn't through the Red Cross.
Also they are assembling teams of 50 take turns volunteering at the Red Cross shelters.
As do I.
You nailed it - the race baiters are deathly afraid that these people will learn that whites are not the racists they have been trained to believe.
i've heard of looking a gift horse in the mouth... but NOT DISSECTING IT!!!
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"My white brother received a whopping $130 from the Red Cross (he is a New Orleans evacuee)...I know there's racism in here somewhere, right? "
How much did your black brother get? :)
Oh geeeesh...you don't think we white folks watch soap operas?
There are two groups of idiots in this game- one is the group of leftist black "leaders" who continually try to drag other black Americans to their pitiful way of hate-filled thinking. The other is the group of ignorant white people who are unable to think an original thought and so assume what's true for one black person is true for all.
Just like the idiotic contention of the supposed all black Army. A volunteer organization is a volunteer organization.
"White folks cant do anything right anymore."
I dunno.....seems to be working well enough for the black folks receiving aid.
They should ask themselves, who would approve more aid to each applicant? A white person who probably can be made to feel guilty about something (and thereby give a quick approval), or a black person who, through their more in-depth understanding of the community, might put their sob-stories under a little more scrutiny?
I guess they'd still have the "Uncle Tom" card to play if a black volunteer didn't give them what they deemed their "fair share" of aid.
Yep there's nothing worse than recieving help from one those dirty Samaritans....
This is just sad.
Thanks for the Ping, my FRiend!
These Yahoos who think they speak for the "Black Community" should be at one of my family's events!
My goodness, Black cousins playing with white cousins?!? Who'da thunk it.
(and if my hubby's family is there, we mix in the Korean/American boys and it's a party!)
When did the Red Cross say that? Do you have a source or link for such an absurd statement?
End of discussion.
Ah... the battle cry of the entitlement class.
I find it interesting, from where I sit, that the last two lines of this article are virtually ignored"
"A number of black churches are helping evacuees on their own even though it isn't through the Red Cross.
Also they are assembling teams of 50 take turns volunteering at the Red Cross shelters."
I am going take a step backward to pass on another lil' story from my Floyd experience. Our high school was a designated shelter, had 300 folks (majority black), the community had it under control. Red Cross showed up, wanted to assume control, it didn't happen. Some strong white and black members of our community held the line and took care of our own, while others in the community organized relief (clothes, food, etc).
We didn't have a lot of 'local' Red Cross personnel. They didn't know our 'community'. It has been my experience that the 'community' itself put forth an outstanding effort of taking care of it's own, with assistance from the Red Cross. Not visa versa. While I don't like the racial overtones to this article, taken in it's entirety, it actually sounds like the community folks ARE stepping up to the plate and I extend my hearty best wishes to them to continue in a spirit of brotherhood. They have a long road ahead and will need all the support that can be mustered to, in turn, support the floodees, hurricanees, refugees, survivors-
because while the emotional toll on survivors is incredible, the emotional toll on the supporting community is enormous and long lasting.
It should come as no surprise that the racist Reverend Enoch Fuzz has a leadership position in the Tennessee NAACP:
http://tinyurl.com/84b5q
They've convinced me.
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