so if katrina is americas tsunami,,,,????

so anyway, lynsey, we're not the best off. we're pretty damned good, but we're so arrogant, and yes, you've proven this here to me in your knee-jerk patriotism. if we weren't so over-confident in our supposed perfection, we'd be more willing to take help and guidance from other countries. but we dont' want help from other countries, that would be admitting weakness, and would actually put us in someone else's debt, and start beinging an end to our instictual isolationism. HOW AWFUL! to allow someone else to do a good deed? THAT'S OUR JOB!!

 

I know if my baby died in my arms after 4 days of no food and water-just because I was black and poor I wouldn't have the same understanding. I do everything I can within my means to help but our goverment let us down and that is shameful-worthy of blame, in need of change.

 

you really like my old sig pics dont you?

 

...and i'm kinda lazy

 

i don't think the baby died because they were black and poor. i don't think race played into this monumental fuck up. i think bureaucracy did.

 

Indeed. A group of doctors from a med center in North Carolina came down to help with two semi rigs set up as complete trauma units. They received no direction on where to go and so they sit. Another doctor emailed a government site offering his services and received an email back saying that his name had been put into a database.

Bureaucracy doing what it does best - following protocol.

 

It's indeed the fault of every Frenchman that they no longer feel grateful for an even that happened before most of them we're alive.

I mean really, how often do you thank the french for the fact that your not still a British Colony.

 

i'm just wondering why everyone considers the white families displaced to be living on unlimited credit cards and and cash rich bank accounts...you know, it's not just black people on welfare, you know. there ARE more white people on welfare in this country. and there is such a thing as lower class white people. i know dave and i would be royally fucked after 2 or 3 days...

 

Havnt read much of this thread apart from the first page, but I just want to say I am donating money to Red Cross to help out with the relief in New Orleans, I dont think my money itself will make one hell of a difference but I need to feel that I am doing SOMETHING after seeing on the news the United States officials doing sweet fuck all to help out their own people although it didnt seem to take them long to organise the mass bombing of Iraq or to organise relief for the Indonesian tsunami.

If anyone on these boards has lost someone due to Katrina, my heart goes out to them, seeing all those people in New Orleans starving to death when the live in the wealthiest country in the world makes me really angry.

 

there's more white people on welfare in this country because there's more white people in this country...more black people are on welfare because we set them up for failure up untill a decade or two ago. Takes awhile to catch up hun...

 

how exactly have they been 'setup' for failure until a decade or two?

 

discrimination in the work place, which still happens, our goverment introducing crack into inter city regions, the bad stigma we give prideful black organizations, how our goverment condemened and lied about the black panthers

 

1)can you prove this discrimination?

2) can you prove the government introduced crack? Even if they did such a vile thing, that does not take away the responsibility of the USER.

3) bad stigma we give prideful black organizations? Is that a joke? if you even criticizeblack organizations you're condemned as a racist. It's 'white organizations' that would be given the bad stigma. Imagine white history month or the national association for the advancement of white people..they would be deemed racist in an instant!

4) yeah, the government didnt do a great job on the black panthers. However, lets remember that the black panthers didnt exactly have 'stellar' leadership(newton)

 

1927-the goverment ordered all blacks to be used as human sandbags and basically chose death by drowning or execution.

 

huh?

 

all blacks in new orleans specifically because of the floods

 

I'll find a link right now brb I missed ya by the way how's life been?

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9179587/site/newsweek/print/1/displaymode/1098/

 

me? i'm good. I'm down in NZ until november finishing up school..and you?


btw, i like the princess bride picture

 

They ran out of sandbags at one particular levee," says Ainslie, "and law enforcement officials there, the poor whites, the sheriff's deputies and the deputized landowners who were there to try and keep blacks in place, had gangs of blacks there, and they ordered them to lie down on the levee to stabilize it with the weight of their bodies while they went for more sand.

"What the blacks were told was that they could lie down now and get up later, when the sandbags came, or they would be shot and their bodies would just simply be buried with the sandbags when the sandbags arrived, but that they were gonna lie down on the levee now.

"So hundreds of black workers lay down next to and on top of one another with the water of the Mississippi once in a while washing over their heads while they waited for more sand to be delivered and more sandbags to be filled."