Hmmmm. Might this be behind the attempts by the MSM to foment racial hatred?
Might this be behind the MSM leaving people with the impression that all of NOLA's black population are criminals, lazy ne'er-do-wells who would not lift a finger on their own behalf, except to rob and loot.
That image, perpetrated by the MSM, might cause a further rift by hurting fundraising efforts, and thus confirming in the minds of the already 'disenfranchised' the perception of a racial rift.
Any hampering of relief or fundraising efforts is a two-fer, giving more cause to bash President Bush (relief failure), and to foment hatred against the "haves", for not digging deep.
The images of looters, rapists, and angry people do little to open would-be sympathetic wallets.
After all, much, if not all of the media are about the creation and maintenance of images, appearances which do not have to coincide with reality, and best do not, in the diabolical promotion of such an agenda.
Then the Dems swoop in with allegations that they are the only real friends of the black community, and the beat goes on....and on. THe welfare state (and mentality) remains intact, and untarnished 'victimhood' ensures a multitude of subjects in perpetuity.
Unfortunately, any white who would dare to say this would be shouted down, damned as a racist by the MSM.
Thus, the answer has to come from within the black community, a community which used to demand more of their children than many white parents did, just to overcome the images which had been perpetrated upon them.
Once again the Dems and the MSM do the black community a great disservice in the raw and unadulterated pursuit of power.
Unfortunately, any white who would dare to say this would be shouted down, damned as a racist by the MSM. ....***
From a black American: [What] White do-gooders did for black America***.....Few thinking people regret the flower children’s opposition to the Vietnam war, sexism and racial discrimination. But these advances also spelt the demise of old standards of responsibility. Taught that criminality and violence must be judged in proportion to the extent to which poverty and discrimination have coloured one’s existence, the enlightened white person saw black violence as “understandable”.
This meant a largely theatrical black separatist ideology, drastically short on constructive aims, had a public sanction that it had never had before. Hating whitey for its own sake now had an ear among the influential and quickly became the word on the street.
There was a new sense that the disadvantages of being black gave one a pass on civility — or even achievement: this was when black teens started teasing black nerds for “acting white”.
Behaviour that most of a black community would have condemned as counterproductive started to seem normal. Through the late 1960s blacks burnt down their own neighbourhoods as gestures of being “fed up”. But blacks had been “fed up” for centuries: why were these the first riots initiated by blacks rather than white thugs — when the economy was flush and employment opportunities were opening up as never before? Because the culture had changed, in ways that hindered too many blacks from taking advantage of the civil rights revolution. Meanwhile, the most grievous result of the new consensus was black American history’s most under-reported event, the expansion of welfare. Until now, welfare had been a pittance intended for widows, unavailable as long as the father of one’s children was able-bodied and accounted for, and granted for as little time as possible.
In 1966, however, a group of white academics in New York developed a plan to bring as many people onto the welfare rolls as possible. Across the country, poor blacks especially were taught to apply for living on the dole even when they had been working for a living, and by 1970 there were 169% more people on welfare nationwide than in 1960. This was the first time that whites or blacks had taught black people not to work as a form of civil rights. Politicians and bureaucrats jumped on the new opportunity for political patronage and votes, and welfare quickly became a programme that essentially paid young women to have children. .............***