Reply #67: Tell Me Race Has Nothing to do With This! [View All]

[littleraf]

Bush steals and election he becomes president. This kid steals a bus he becomes an enemy of the state. This whole episode has been soaked in race, especially the coverage. The first day after the storm was over everybody was saying, "material possessions mean nothing, all that matters is human life." But when after two days without assistance the looting started people started saying "possessions are all that matters, shoot to kill!"
Awhile back I had an exchange on this board with a MalibuChloe and I explained to her that the same racist attitudes that gave us Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind were still alive and well and that too many people shared those racist views -including MalibuChloe. Sadly, this whole sordid episode proves my point beyond argument. If this were Hartford Connecticutt or Boston, or some other predominantly white coastal city that was flooded following a hurricane do you seriously think it would have taken 3 days for the president to repsond and 5 for help to arrive? MalibuChloe said she wanted to be a writing student and i said with racist views like hers I hope she never became one. But given the coverage I've seen and the way blacks trapped in a sinking city, dying by the thousands, in desperate life-threatening situations have been portrayed by the white media I would think Chloe had already found a job writing news stories. The message from the white media is obvious: blacks need to quietly lie down and die. Fortuanately the people of NO aren't doing that. They're raising holy hell and rightly so! There's not a single white person on earth who would not have reacted the way the blacks in NO have. What white person on this board would lie and say they would sit calmly after five days without air-conditioning, toilets, electicity, phone service, water, food and medicine, in the brutal Louisiana heat (I live here so io can testify to how hot it gets), all the while watching people dying all around you? Especially when you can clearly see that no help is coming and none is on the way. To call this young man a thief is racist and to blame the peolpe of NO for hating how they've been abandoned is equally wrong.