Comments on: Media pushes “white guilt” angle

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:42:12 +0000

One thing I haven’t seen talked about much, but which I heard with my own ears, is that Governor Blanco got on TV and clearly said: “If you decide to stay, write your social security number on your arm so we can ID you.” I saw a clown on one of the national shows the other night say that he wishes the real severity of the storm had been communicated by the government. This guy obviously was of means to leave and was young and healthy. Why do people say things that indicate that the omnipresent government did its job, then complain that they are helpless and need even more coddling from the government? What a downer it must be to tell yourself, and not be embarrassed to tell the whole world, that you are a helpless ward of the state.

By: Baklava

Baklava — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:02:10 +0000

Please try to visit here in the future Kelly. Your voice needs to be heard.

I’ve donated and I hope government doesn’t add to the problem anymore than it has.

Remember that conservatives care no matter how much liberals claim otherwise.

By: kelly

kelly — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:21:51 +0000

As someone who lives in lower Louisiana, it just kills me to still see the racial card being played. You don’t see all of the predominantly white destroyed areas on the TV. Many of my friends lived in Chalmette, Violet, Plaquemines-places that weren’t just tragically flooded-BUT COMPLETELY WIPED OUT! I have been to some of the neighborhoods where there is only one building left standing and debris everywhere. One town had so many dead animals and people with debris, it looked like a bomb went off.
Where is their publicity? Many of us evacuated within the four day period of warnings. I am poor, but I grabbed my sister, our three children, two dogs, and a cat and got out. I sat in 10 hours of traffic, while my police officer husband had to stay behind. How dare people say that they didn’t know to leave and it’s not fair. There were fire trucks going up and down the neighborhoods saying “YOU HAVE TO LEAVE. THE HURRICANE IS COMING. YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE IF YOU STAY.” Nagin and Blanco both knew. Nagin knows his constituents and shouldn’t have been off in Dallas buying a house but getting people out.
AAAHHH! I can’t rant anymore. People will believe what they want to, while those of us who have been through it are stuck in Chocolate City with a Mayor who has lost his ever-loving mind.
Please donate if you can to Red Cross. Nagin is now wanting to make them pay taxes on their properties in New Orleans. If they don’t get the donations, they will have to choose between paying the bills and assisting those that need it. Please help.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:51:29 +0000

I’m fed up with liberal blacks holding us accountable for their problems and wanting us to feel guilty. If you want me to feel guilty for you when I have my own problems, you can kiss my you-know-what.

By: gene willis

gene willis — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:00:10 +0000

boot straps,once in a while,even minorities like the far removed nonminority must do is…pick you,rself up by you,r laces and carry on,and for get the jesse and sharpton blame game,it huets us and they do all minorities an injustice.

By: GBA

GBA — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:00:48 +0000

Shooter,

Did you know that it was slaves who built most of Washington D.C.

NJ is second in the nation for hate crimes. BTW Shooter (McGavin) … I grew up in Northern New Jersey. My family has had a business in the Hollow of Morristown for generations. And I have no idea where you might get the idea of what you are talking about.

Are you saying that it’s right and lawful to enlist the services of those who are illegal to work in this country?

Are you saying that the persuit of civil rights and liberties promotes “black poverty, lawlessness, promiscuity, single parent homes and illiteracy”? The last I checked the divorce rate amongst Americans was near 60% percent. That means that nearly two thirds of those that enter into marriage, fail as families and cannot for whatever reason keep a sacred vow that they have made to God and/or eachother. So what’s wrong with single parenthood? It’s more popular amongst those who break their vows than to those who never marry.

Illiteracy is far more prevalent in the South than in the north. Our local high school here in my Southern state just spent $5,000,000.00 on a football stadium. They froze the teachers salaries. Cut the music and drama programs. They have no AP courses at all. The swim team is #1 in the state and they don’t even have a pool. The percentage of students here that make it to a tier one (top 120) university is 2%. And this is regarded as the best public school system in our state.

The last time I checked the federal deficit was increasing at more than triple the pace that history has ever seen since 2001.

The number of Americans (not illegal immigrants) living in poverty has nearly doubled since 2001.

The “No Child Left Behind Act” is severely underfunded. More money is issued each year to private churches by the federal government than is issued to all schools combined. And churches get that money by an executive order because congress would not pass legistlation for “Faith Bases Initiatives”. And to this day NO Hindu, Buddhist,Taoist, Unitarian, B’ahai, Islamic or Jewish group has been issued any money. But ironically these faith groups may engage in practices of discrimination otherwise prohibited by anyone else who recieves Federal funding or Federal contracts.

What do you know about lawlessness? NJ has some of the hardest screws in the country. The Stateys’ are famous for racial profiling against African Americans. Almost every police force in Northern New Jersey is overfunded. This is due to the incredible property tax. My Father pays $60,000 dollars a year in just property taxes.

Promescuity? Are you saying there should be moratorium on fornication? Perhaps a federal oversight committee on the ethics of intercourse? People used to think that morality was a virtue that was learned through responsible guidance by the family. There are all different kinds of families. But according to your idea the government needs to step in?

What will be the next evil on your agenda? XBOX? Playstation? Rap Music? Rodeo?

We as people need to put our own lives and families in check before we can even think about infringing on others.

By: Shooter

Shooter — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:44:28 +0000

I can feel it coming! Another ‘Great Society’. If the left gains control somehow, we’re going to have our assets redistributed again. With the same results no doubt. More black poverty, lawlessness, promiscuity, single parent homes and illiteracy are what the last ‘Great Society’ socialist experiment provided.
Slavery is not the cause of this! I never had a slave, not even one so there’s not one iota of guilt here. In fact when my father came here at age 19, unable to read or write (English nor Italian) and with $26 to his name, he was almost a slave himself! He had a job inside of a week!
If you drive past certain places in this area (North NJ) at around 7AM you’ll see what appear to be gangs of short brown-skinned men loitering around. At 9AM they’re all gone. Hmmm, I wonder where??

W O R K !!!

that’s where! May only be cutting grass…

Never see any slavery victims out there though!

So now the Sharpton’s and the Jackson’s are setting up the white guilt hustle again just like the 60’s.

I just hope I get kissed this time around.

By: GBA

GBA — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:44:59 +0000

Has anyone read the emergency plan?

Please help me find the part where they evacuate the poor and the infirmed. I keep reading it and I just can’t find that part.

Does anyone know if the Nagin or Blanco called for the National Guard before to provide evacuation assistance before the storm hit?

Please remember thay Katrina was 300 miles wide, so no one could evacuate on foot. Even if they started walking 4 days before it hit land.

It seems to me that most munincipal workers that could have helped realized that this was going to be “biblical” event and thus promptly got themselves and their own families out of town. But I could be wrong.

BTW: Crosshairs;
Slavery ended 140 years ago. Does that mean that racial opression no longer exist in the United States?

Because I will never forget as long as I live what happened to James Bryd Jr in 1998. Nor will I forget how many in that Texas community defended the actions of the perpetrators of such a brutal and grizzly crime.

By: cc

cc — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:25:16 +0000

I am white and I do not feel one bit guilty for wondering why these people didn’t help themselves.

I live in the Pacific Northwest. I have an evacuation plan should we have the big earthquake.

I really admire what the 15 year old did in New Orleans. He took that school bus and saved a lot of lives. He is a hero. So is “Leo.” The man that took a bunch of baby food, formula, diapers, pedialyte, Fresh Wipes and handed them out at the Super Dome.

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:18:29 +0000

Crosshairs: “Slavery ended 140 years ago I’m not responsible nor are you. Let’s get beyond that BS.”

Amen!

Rob: “Never assume malice when incompetence is the more likely explanation.”

Oh if only more people would think that way!

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 19:07:22 +0000

The folks claiming the response to Katrina is racial are idiots. They’re giving the government far to much credit for actually having been prepared for this catastrophy.

Never assume malice when incompetence is the more likely explanation.

By: She Who Will Be Obeyed!

She Who Will Be Obeyed! — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 17:57:06 +0000

What a mess

This speaks for itself: Conduct of an actual evacuation will be the responsibility of the Mayor of New Orleans in coordination with the Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, and the OEP Shelter Coordinator. That is from The City…

By: crosshairs

crosshairs — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 13:56:19 +0000

The people making this into a race event are the ones that should be ashamed. How about some personal responsibility, most people at least have two feet. It was the NO’s city government that should have been responsible for getting everyone out, than the state government, failing that, and if called by the state, it falls to the fed’s. There was ample warning to get out!!! Never the less if you’ve got a heart you donate or do what you can for people. Slavery ended 140 years ago I’m not responsible nor are you. Let’s get beyond that BS.