Racism

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by kristeejo

I would choose the most qualified.

Congrats. Now where's my "you're not a racist" button?

[kristeejo]

Originally Posted by Nick

Ya'll didn't witness it. That's like saying I was at the World Trade Center when it was attacked.

Cameras can't lie, but they can deceive. Did you notice most of the people looting were black? Did you notice most pictures taken of those stranded...were black? Did you notice most of the gang members who were roaming the streets...were black?

That's an issue...

Not really sure what your point is here.

[sim]

Originally Posted by Nick

Or just couldn't leave, because they didn't have the means of transportation needed because it was DENIED. They had almost 4 days to get all those people out and they didn't.

Take a look at this guy

http://www.buzz-worthy.com/videos/liveswearing.htm

Watch the whole thing...

The end is the best....true stupidity.

and why didnt they interview a white person? huH?

[Nick]

Originally Posted by cimmeron

there are white people in new orleans?!?

According to the media and to Ray Nagan, "New Orleans is a chocolate city".... so no

hmmmmmmmm....

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...chocolate+city

You can see why the local government failed us....

[kristeejo]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

Congrats. Now where's my "you're not a racist" button?

I'd rather have a "George Bush Hates Black People" button.

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by Nick

Did you notice most of the gang members who were roaming the streets...were black?

That's an issue...

Nick, Blacks in America commit more crimes than Whites or Asians. That's a fact.

If you believe it is because of their genes, you're a racist.

If you think it's because of some screwed up cultural values, you're not racist.

[Julie]

Originally Posted by Nick

According to the media and to Ray Nagan, "New Orleans is a chocolate city"....

hmmmmmmmm....

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...chocolate+city

You can see why the local government failed us....

It's 67.3% black, 28.1% white as of the last census.

View here.

[Trapper]

Originally Posted by Julie

I was watching all the news channels before, during, and after. They let that Brown dude talk on TV way too much.

Isn't African American the appropriate term here?

[kristeejo]

Originally Posted by cimmeron

you honestly think that what is edited and spewed to the masses is it? That it really tells the whole picture? Cameras may not lie but they can certainly omit a lot...

Of course I know this - I think the media spew out so much propaganda it's not funny. Perhaps I used the wrong words - All I know is they can't just make up the fact that thousands were stuck in the SuperDome etc.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

Nick, Blacks in America commit more crimes than Whites or Asians. That's a fact.

If you believe it is because of their genes, you're a racist.

If you think it's because of some screwed up cultural values, you're not racist.

Exactly. I view the latter

[sim]

Originally Posted by kristeejo

I would choose the most qualified.

which would be the 4.0

[kristeejo]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

Nick, Blacks in America commit more crimes than Whites or Asians. That's a fact.

If you believe it is because of their genes, you're a racist.

If you think it's because of some screwed up cultural values, you're not racist.

No, I think the correct statement here would be....

BLACKS are BLAMED for more crime than whites or Asians.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by Julie

It's 67.3% black, 28.1% white as of the last census.

View here.

And 80% evacuated....

At a news conference 10:00 a.m. on August 28, shortly after Katrina was upgraded to a Category 5 storm, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin ordered the first ever mandatory evacuation of the city, calling Katrina, "a storm that most of us have long feared".[9] The government also established several "refuges of last resort" for citizens who could not leave the city, including the massive Louisiana Superdome, which sheltered approximately 26,000 people and provided them with food and water for several days as the storm came ashore.[10]

The Louisiana State Evacuation Plan left the means of evacuation up to individual citizens, parish governments, and private caretakers; however, many private care-taking facilities who relied on the same bus companies and ambulance services for evacuation were unable to evacuate their charges. Fuel and rental cars were in short supply and many forms of public transportation had been shut down well before the storm arrived.[11] Some estimates claimed that 80% of the 1.3 million residents of the greater New Orleans metropolitan area evacuated, leaving behind substantially fewer people than remained in the city during the Hurricane Ivan evacuation.[12]

[kristeejo]

Originally Posted by sim

which would be the 4.0

Not true at all.

[sim]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

If you think it's because of some screwed up cultural values, you're not racist.

then I guess im not racist, but I avoid them due to not get involved with there screwed up cultural values. Now does that make me racist?

[Abhishek]

Ghosh if this musta been an ad revenue sharing forum,
Stephen Bradley musta been rich by now!
Abhishek

[Julie]

Originally Posted by Nick

And 80% evacuated....

and your point is??

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by sim

then I guess im not racist, but I avoid them due to not get involved with there screwed up cultural values. Now does that make me racist?

Well, you did say some other things that smack of racism.

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by kristeejo

Not true at all.

So glad I didn't give you that "you're not a racist" button.

[kristeejo]

I hope you wake up tomorrow with an afro, John.