Posted on 10/26/2005 9:20:58 AM PDT by EveningStar
Probably the single greatest problem between blacks and whites in America is that we are forever witness to each other's great shames. This occurred to me in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, when so many black people were plunged into misery that it seemed the hurricane itself had held a racial animus. I felt a consuming empathy but also another, more atavistic impulse. I did not like my people being seen this way. Beyond the human mess one expects to see after a storm like this, another kind of human wretchedness was on display. In the people traversing waist-deep water and languishing on rooftops were the markers of a deep and static poverty. The despair over the storm that was so evident in people's faces seemed to come out of an older despair, one that had always been there. Here--40 years after the great civil rights victories and 50 years after Rosa Parks's great refusal--was a poverty that oppression could no longer entirely explain. Here was poverty with an element of surrender in it that seemed to confirm the worst charges against blacks: that we are inferior, that nothing really helps us, that the modern world is beyond our reach...
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not just on FR, and assuredly not merely on this one topic
in general, people are sloppy and far from intellectually rigorous - this truth stands naked in all races, all cultures, throughout all time.
I know this is slightly off topic; but I wish some one would tell this to the Arabs. It's all because of the JOOOOS! is really getting tiresome.
... there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet:There will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate: Time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of the toast and tea. From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
I see it was ignorance. I tell you what, lets not rebuild any area in the United States that is affected by natural disasters. I am not sure where half of the country will move but what the hell. Hey lets include areas where its dam breaks and other things helped by man.
Random columnists with no first hand knowledge of the area do not impress.
I live in Orange County, California. I believe that it's less than 2% black. However, those blacks tend to be fully integrated and upper middle class.
Here is a link for you and others of your ilk to peruse letting you understand the importance of the New Orleans port and the city that surrounds it.
http://www.stratfor.com/news/archive/050903-geopolitics_katrina.php
Again its a random link to a random writer but hey, if its good for the naysayers. Unfortunately what those like you and Hastert do, is portray the Republican Party as an unfeeling doze it down in the face of a disaster entity.
If you live in California, the "problem minority" according to alot of people are Mexicans/Central Americans. If you live in the northeast, Chicago, or the South, its blacks. Where I come from, folks have a better attitude towards Latinos (particularly if they are here legally) than they do blacks. That's just the way it is.
Political correctness is secular religion. We are to jump, hop, touch our nose, and make our speech and writing adhere to their theories on cue. Many people here are doing that here to prove themselves free of racism. That's how deeply the guilt Steele addresses runs in the American bloodstream. We always seem to remedy it by piling on more guilt.
Eventually a free and respectful discussion of race must take place among people of good will. Blacks must become free of caring what judgments will be directed at them while they take responsibility for their families and communities. Blacks bring many wonderful things to American life, and the current focus on gangsterism and the unseemly does nothing to bring about the necessary dialogue.
In my family, we have blacks, whites, and polynesians. Race doesn't matter. We live together because we are family, but most people don't have that advantage. Separation often brings about misunderstanding and people will often gravitate to communities of their own kind and heritage. Many times it's economic. People in the black communities need to take universal responsibility for themselves, rather than automatically blaming others for everything difficult that befalls them.
Dude, look close at the "provisions". Cheetos, mustard, Bud Light, Red Dog, Keystone Ice, cigarettes, and several bottles of hard liquor. Is that how you pack for a disaster?
Dude, look close at the "provisions". Cheetos, mustard, Bud Light, Red Dog, Keystone Ice, cigarettes, and several bottles of hard liquor. Is that how you pack for a disaster?
We have still not recovered yet from Hurricane Wilma here in Florida but the difference is that the people here are not looting, robbing and stealing from others.
"I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
I have had the same thought many times myself.
I'm so sorry you had to endure that just for listening to Sean Hannity.
Not only should she have recieved a written and verbal warning, but a few days suspension without pay.
Complicated by the additional experience of discrimination, the sexual revolution and the Welfare State.
I have thoguht for years blacks and whites have to stop playing the blame game with one another, take an honest look at where there are true problems and work to fix them. A respectful, honest and matter of fact approach, would do wonders for everyone.
One of the first steps is of course, entirely eliminating the Welfare State.
Wow! That story really did get around.
The flood had nothing to do with race.
Statistics released to date reveal that 42% of the corpses are black ... from a city that was nearly 70% black.
So, if the flood did, in fact have something to do with race ... it would appear that the white race suffered way out of proportion to its share of the population.
Why isn't this being reported by the MSM?
It is a class thing ... not a race thing. The folks you have just described would be accepted happily into any American community. In an emergency, they would not be among the throng of 100 or so Katrina evacuees, housed briefly in a brand new school, who trashed and destroyed everything that could be broken ... including many brand new computers ... and, even ripped the urinals off the wall.
Many major cities are beset by marauding bands of miscreants like this. Those who have not lived with a population that acts this way cannot possibly comprehend that objections to them are not based upon race but upon their abhorrent actions.
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