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Originally posted by I See You
Why does this have to turn into a race issue? I have seen and heard that the reason why it took so long to get action was that the stranded persons were primarily black. This is absurd. I don't believe for a minute that this is the case. We are all Americans not skin colors. This should not be turned into a race issue. It just happens that 80% of people living in N.O. are black skinned. Thats all.
Originally posted by shots
Originally posted by I See You
Why does this have to turn into a race issue? I have seen and heard that the reason why it took so long to get action was that the stranded persons were primarily black. This is absurd. I don't believe for a minute that this is the case. We are all Americans not skin colors. This should not be turned into a race issue. It just happens that 80% of people living in N.O. are black skinned. Thats all.
I agree it should not be a race issue, unfortunately you have the likes of Jackson, NAACP, Sharpton (sp?)etc., who seem to want to make a race issue out of it since it involves mostly blacks.
I honestly think they are just trying to get into the lime light for a few minutes of fame
Originally posted by I See You
Why would I have the likes of Sharpton and Jackson? Reread my post.
Originally posted by DiRtYDeViL
Btw I forgot to mention I have an family member that lives just outside of baton rouge. High end white neighborhood. They had helicopters drop off food and water Monday. This will all come out soon enough. Get ready for the riots again.
Originally posted by loam
Originally posted by DiRtYDeViL
Btw I forgot to mention I have an family member that lives just outside of baton rouge. High end white neighborhood. They had helicopters drop off food and water Monday. This will all come out soon enough. Get ready for the riots again.
Can you confirm this through any media source?
Originally posted by CatHerder
My point being, do you seriously think that the black helicopter pilots, and the black crewmen, and the black guardsmen, and the black rescue people, and the black generals, and the black majors, and the black captains, and the black sergeants, and the black corporals, and the black privates, and the black coremen, and the black chaplains, and the black doctors are going to say "screw those black refugees"? Please...
[edit on 4-9-2005 by CatHerder]
Originally posted by CatHerder
It's a race issue because you want it to be a race issue.
It's a race issue because Sharpton et. al. want it to be a race issue because it empowers them.
What about the tens of thousands of white people trapped in New Orleans?
What about the tens of thousands of rich white people trapped in NO suburbs who only got food/water dropped to them yesterday?
What about the ten white people in downtown NO who have been stuck on top of a building roof (including a couple tourists from Scotland) and have been on multiple media sources but have yet to be rescued even though everyone knows exactly where they are located?
What about the dozens and dozens of TV images of black people being dropped cases of food and water we see on TV for the past 2 days?
What about all the white and black people we saw stranded at different arenas?
It's not a race issue, and I do not believe that it's a poverty issue -- not the rescue part. Yes, it's a given that the poor would have had a harder time evacuating before the storm, and yes it's a given that the majority of the remaining victims of the storm would be classed as poor. But have you ever looked at the US military? Have you ever looked at the National Guard? Have you ever looked at the Coast Guard? Have you?
Almost 25% of the US military is comprised of black people, yet the population of blacks in the USA is around 12.3% (2000 census). In the past 3 years the percentage of blacks recruited has been dropping (from 22.7% in 2001 to 13.1% in 2005) the reasons for this are chalked up to a better economy and lower unemployment (more opportunities at home including a significant increase in college enrollment by blacks) and to the fact that there is a much higher chance of being killed and/or being deployed in the middle east for extended tours of duty (many young black men disagree with the Iraq war are aren't willing to enlist to fight and possibly die for something they don't believe in).
Originally posted by loam
How many of them are officers?
Secretary Ridge, during the briefings, also updated the President on Hurricane Charley, and talked about how we have deployed federal resources and put them in place to be in position to respond to Hurricane Charley when it hits Florida. We've got disaster supply kits in place. We've got response teams in place. So the President received an update about all that we're doing at the federal level to respond to Hurricane Charley.
Originally posted by I See You
It's a race issue because the black caucus and Jackson..followers of have made this one. Watch TV. It's been mentioned numerous times already. It shouldn't be though. Like I said the % of N.O. is predominatley black so givin that how would it not be that there are a larger number of blacks not being rescued as quickly? Granted that the effort had failed in certain areas but I don't believe that it was planned to fail and to premeditate the deaths on 100's or 1000's of people.
Unfortunately this is going to cause quite a stir and needlesss to say millions of taxpayer dollars. Maybe even people getting hurt if this escalades into something more than what it is.
[edit on 4-9-2005 by I See You]