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Originally Posted by Biggy
Al Sharpton gets a tough gig.. he does play the race card a little too hard.
We'd be kidding ourselves though if we didn't think what he said was partially true. If this happened in Texas, or a place with wealthier/whiter people, I think there would be a little more hop in Bush's step.. its more subtle than direct than what hes making it. I also didn't see too many white people at the Superdome, that could just be the media.. but I remember reading in an article where they interviewed an old white lady and they said the overwhelming majority were black, and that she was one of the few white people there.
Another important point to make is this.. when you compare these issues, you have to compare the response. The damage directly from the hurricane that everyone felt you can't really compare - thats Mother Nature doing her thing to whats in her way. I didn't read too many stories about white people starving to death, not getting medical supplies, lack of security in those areas, etc. Its hard to tell when you make judgements from what the media shows you, but just an observation...
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This may be true but to be honest we will never know the real numbers. The media definately skews things so their stories are more glamorous so that doesn't help. I am not saying there weren't more black people than white people but it could be due to a variety of reasons possibly including the hardest hit areas of 'Norleans being predominately black
Right now on MSNBC I am watching an older white man being interviewed I would guess early 60's - Crying but trying to get his words out.. I honest to god prior to this thread never looked at whether the people that were being affected were white or black and never thought of it this way.
I am 27 years old.. My generation is where the race issue truly became less of an issue. Today more and more kids don't even consider their black class mates any different than their white class mates. Race is, thankfully, becoming less and less of an issue as the years go on.. This is coming from someone from Pekin, IL to boot I am sure it is even less of an issue in Chicago, Atlanta, L.A, or any other big cities.
I simply think the director of FEMA did a shitty job and that's the bottom line - He did NOT head the disaster relief in N.Y. per 911. Want to know who made that disaster as managable as it was? The citizens, fire fighters, police men, and volunteers of America. They were NOT ASKED they just came and the majority of them put their lives at risk without a second though. That's what America is about.. As it has been said before there is no comparison between the two but that is why I think 911 was handled so much better than this hurricane. Add in the fact that any American that wants to volunteer can't really save people's lives or help people who TRULY NEED IT THE MOST due to the fact they are literally in the middle of a lake now, doesn't help things at all.