Reply #46: Oh please. [View All]

[Tomee450]

Nobody talked about their grandma's house being burned down, or about whole families being lost in auto accidents when the families of the 9/11 victims were being compensated. I remember wondering why the 9/11 families were being treated differently from everyone else who had had sudden loss. In all cases, the relatives were just as dead. The grief is just as great when a person loses his family in an accident as it is when family members are suddenly lost in a terrorist attack. There is something wrong if one cannot see that. I did not approve of the giving of money to the families of the 9/11 victims. However, since the government did decide to compensate them for their loss, the same should be done for the victims of Katrina and Rita. There was virtually no outcry to all of that money going to the 9/11 victims families. The reason? Most were white, many upper middle class. The anger now at the suggestion that Katrina and Rita's victims be compensated is solely because of who they are, mostly black and a few whites. And the victims of Katrina and Rita are far poorer than many of the people who were compensated because of the terrorist attack. I don't think there would be much objection to the whites being compensated but many in this country just do not believe blacks are ever deserving of anything from the government.