Race - sick of the nonsense

[BeachDreamer]

I am irritated with the accusations of racial prejudice I am seeing on the news or elsewhere. To claim that George Bush does not care about black people, or that anyone else is deliberately ignoring black people, in the face of the worst natural disaster we have ever seen in the United States, is not only completely ridiculous, but has absolutely no place here. (I realize that this is the opinion of only a few, unfortunately well publicized individuals.)

Some journalist made a stupid choice of words when describing looters/"finders" and that really stinks, but to say that the entire government is this way is just completely out of place and unfair. We don't need activists in there brewing up trouble, and we don't need war-mongers trying to raise hostility right now. It really hurts to see peoples' attention being stolen away from what's important by these hateful thoughts.

There has been mass incompetancy here, on ALL LEVELS, mainly on the part of the mayor (who is black for goodness' sake) and the governor. But to say that the incompetancy has been on purpose due to peoples' skin color, just makes me mad enough to spit.

 

[CastlesOfSand]

I am irritated with the accusations of racial prejudice I am seeing on the news or elsewhere. To claim that George Bush does not care about black people, or that anyone else is deliberately ignoring black people, in the face of the worst natural disaster we have ever seen in the United States, is not only completely ridiculous, but has absolutely no place here. (I realize that this is the opinion of only a few, unfortunately well publicized individuals.)

Some journalist made a stupid choice of words when describing looters/"finders" and that really stinks, but to say that the entire government is this way is just completely out of place and unfair. We don't need activists in there brewing up trouble, and we don't need war-mongers trying to raise hostility right now. It really hurts to see peoples' attention being stolen away from what's important by these hateful thoughts.

There has been mass incompetancy here, on ALL LEVELS, mainly on the part of the mayor (who is black for goodness' sake) and the governor. But to say that the incompetancy has been on purpose due to peoples' skin color, just makes me mad enough to spit.

I agree with you 100%! Well said.

 

[SlowMovin]

Thank you.

 

[ladybug8876]

I agree last night on the concert for relief on NBC a musical artist said something like he didn't like how the media was showing white people getting water and food, then showing black people looting. I felt like that wasn't the time or place. He was there to help raise money for the people affected by Hurricane Katrina not make political statements

 

[Smiling JOe]

I agree last night on the concert for relief on NBC a musical artist said something like he didn't like how the media was showing white people getting water and food, then showing black people looting. I felt like that wasn't the time or place. He was there to help raise money for the people affected by Hurricane Katrina not make political statements

I think you have it backwards. He was there to make political statements.

 

[ladybug8876]

Yeah your right that was why HE was there.

 

[Miss Kitty]

I agree last night on the concert for relief on NBC a musical artist said something like he didn't like how the media was showing white people getting water and food, then showing black people looting. I felt like that wasn't the time or place. He was there to help raise money for the people affected by Hurricane Katrina not make political statements

I say a story about this artist last week and thought..."what a nice, thoughtful and talented young man" (he really loves his momma). Don't know if there will be backlash....he was preaching to HIS choir.

 

[DBOldford]

Someone should be saying something, however uncomfortable such statements make some people. While race obviously did not cause the storm and people are not intentionally acting in a racist manner, it is apparent to the most naive that race is a factor there. Does anyone really believe it is a coincidence that virtually all of these desperate people are African Americans? There are many forms of abuse and racism, with DISREGARD being possibly the most widespread and dangerous cause. These people were disregarded. Who could reasonably disagree with that? Pretending that race is not a factor when that tv screen is crowded with only the faces of the very poorest African American people doesn't make it so.

 

[OnMackBayou]

I agree last night on the concert for relief on NBC a musical artist said something like he didn't like how the media was showing white people getting water and food, then showing black people looting. I felt like that wasn't the time or place. He was there to help raise money for the people affected by Hurricane Katrina not make political statements

I saw a replay of some of that. I wonder what was going thru Mike Myers head as he stood there next to the spewer.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I saw a replay of some of that. I wonder what was going thru Mike Myers head as he stood there next to the spewer.

Since they were both reading scripts, supposedly, Mike Myers probably thought the guy could not read.