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IS RACE AN ISSUE IN KATRINA RESPONSE?


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If the people suffering the most due to Katrina were mostly white and not mostly black, would the response and relief efforts have been better?  

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  1. 1. If the people suffering the most due to Katrina were mostly white and not mostly black, would the response and relief efforts have been better?

    • Yes
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    • No
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    • Either way, the response and rescue efforts would still be lousy
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[quote]Assume you are the father of a poor family living in NO... You have no car, and you are the bread winner for your family and live pay check to paycheck. You have almost no money in the bank.... [b]Your only option is to walk out of the city..[/b]

This doesn't even cover the old and the sick...

What do you do?? Where do you go??

Give me your plan... [b]Tell me what you would do..... [/b][/quote]
i believe he has already answered this and you yourself have also answered the question...

nobody has claimed that it is the sick, elderly, young, or disabled peoples own fault... but as for able-bodied people, they were all forewarned and had plenty of opportunity to seek safe shelter several days before hand

ill tell ya exactly what i'd do, i'd grab my family, food, and any valuables i can carry, then lock the doors and get the fuck outta there
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[quote name='Nati Ice' date='Sep 4 2005, 03:15 AM']i believe he has already answered this and you yourself have also answered the question...

nobody has claimed that it is the sick, elderly, young, or disabled peoples own fault... but as for able-bodied people, they were all forewarned and had plenty of opportunity to seek safe shelter several days before hand

ill tell ya exactly what i'd do, i'd grab my family, food, and any valuables i can carry, then lock the doors and get the fuck outta there
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Walk where exactly??? Sleep where??

I asked for your plan... "Get the fuck outta there" is not a plan... Walk like what 30 - 40 miles, to the country??

Then do what? Have your wife and kids sleep in the mud in the woods with a hurricane passing overhead?? Do you have a tent?? Why would you, you are poor and live in the city... Besides, a tent would just blow away with you inside it...
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This thread makes me sick.


Why don`t you think for a minute...

If New Orleans was predominatley white...
Would it still have been shaped like a bowl ?
Would the hurricane still have hit ?
Would the levee still have broke ?
Would the police still have walked off their jobs ?
Would the rescue workers still have gotten shot at ?


THOSE are the things that turned a disaster into a catastrophe !
NOT race, religion or economic class...

My God...some people act like they`re the victims of air...
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BJ, you're such a dipshit. When are you going to stop letting your hatred for the president get in the way of rational thought. People wouldn't see you as such a joke on here if you were even a tad objective sometimes. You barely make any freaking sense, but I guess that's Bush fault too. I've seen a lot of footage of black people sitting around with signs that ask when the government is going to help them. That should speak volumes there. It seems that most people down there were either looting or sitting on their asses waiting for someone to come down and help. You didn't see shit like that after the tsunami.
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[quote]If New Orleans was predominatley white...[/quote]

[quote]Would it still have been shaped like a bowl ?[/quote] [i][b]Yes and the bowl would have been completed without a hole in the side[/b][/i]

[quote]Would the hurricane still have hit ?[/quote] [i][b]of course... noone is saying that God is racist (although his results of help in the 3rd world might say otherwise)[/b][/i]

[quote]Would the levee still have broke ?[/quote]
[i][b]When will people understand this.... the levee didn't break... it was not complete !!!! because Bush pulled the funding. [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/30.gif[/img] [/b][/i]

[quote]Would the police still have walked off their jobs ?[/quote] [i][b]No[/b][/i]

[quote]Would the rescue workers still have gotten shot at ?[/quote] [i][b]Depends... were they trying to take Rustys Gun out of the pickup ? [/b][/i]
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[quote]When are you going to stop letting your hatred for the president get in the way of rational thought. People wouldn't see you as such a joke on here if you were even a tad objective sometimes.[/quote]

[i][b]to me rational is leaving ones vacation to help citizens you are president of.... especially when there are thousands of children and elderly involved.... so Go suck a fuck [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//30.gif[/img] [/b][/i]


[quote]I've seen a lot of footage of black people sitting around with signs that ask when the government is going to help them. That should speak volumes there. It seems that most people down there were either looting or sitting on their asses waiting for someone to come down and help. You didn't see shit like that after the tsunami[/quote]

[i][b]Ok you are stuck on your roof and all of the 10 foot deep water around your home is toxic, snake filled, and filled with alligators. You don't have a boat.... are you going to swan dive off the roof and make a swim for it. MSNBC had a story with a man who swam for 1 whole hour to saftey.... and his wife with him drown....As for people in the Tsunami they knew their govt wasn't coming... they did not even have a fake illusion that the indonesian or Sri Lankan govt gave a shit.... our people are at least bred to buy the bullshit that America cares for her own in Crisis.... :rolleyes: [/b][/i]

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[quote name='BlackJesus' date='Sep 4 2005, 07:47 AM'][i][b]Yes and the bowl would have been completed without a hole in the side[/b][/i]

[i][b]of course... noone is saying that God is racist (although his results of help in the 3rd world might say otherwise)[/b][/i]
[i][b]When will people understand this.... the levee didn't break... it was not complete !!!! because Bush pulled the funding. [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/30.gif[/img] [/b][/i]

[i][b]No[/b][/i]

[i][b]Depends... were they trying to take Rustys Gun out of the pickup ?  [/b][/i]
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Since when was a 100 year old levee incomplete ? :roll:


Oh you mean this that I already posted ?


[quote]In fact, the federal government has been working with state and local officials in the region since the late 1960s on major hurricane and flood relief efforts. When flooding from a massive rainstorm in May 1995 killed six people, Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, or SELA.

[b]Over the next 10 years,the Army Corps of Engineers, tasked with carrying out SELA, spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations, with $50 million in local aid. But at least $250 million in crucial projects remained[/b]...[/quote]

It`s actually from an op-ed article that blames Bush for it all.

[url="http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313"]http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/articl...t_id=1001051313[/url]


Anyway The State of Louisiana, the Parrish of Orleans and
the City of New Orleans had the ability and wherewithal to
fund their own flood control systems. Where was their plan?
What actions did they take ?

Why should the taxpayers of Ohio and Tennessee, as examples,
pay for flood control in New Orleans? Do the people of New Orleans
pay for the sewer systems in Cincinnati and Nashville ?

We funded OVER half of it. The people of New Orleans City/Parrish and
the State of Louisiana could have easily picked up the rest.
We spent more than $250 million building a fucking football
stadium...but they couldn`t spend that much to keep their bowl
from being drowned ?


Anyway I`d say that $430 million spent on "suring" up levess
is far from you dumbass claim that it didn`t break and was incomplete.
And that has NOTHING to do with race....keep reaching.
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The people I saw were on the street corner. I t just seems like nobody is pulling together, it's just everyone for themselves. I'm still waiting for someone to take shots at the Louisiana government. But why be diverted from another golden opportunity to attack Bush. The democrats with help from the media instantly linked the hurricane and it's aftermath to Bush.
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Guest BlackJesus
[i][b]Hooky you might have seen them on a corner... but for the most part to get out they would have to swim I can guarantee it... many of them are on Highway ramps above the water... but they would have to swim once they got off.... also the Natl Guard is making them all wait to leave the city because they don't want migrations of people into neighboring areas which are full of people..... [/b][/i]
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[quote name='CTBengalsFan' date='Sep 3 2005, 07:23 PM']Thanks for your input Kanye, after all you are a rapper :rolleyes:

[url="http://media.putfile.com/Kanye79/wide"]http://media.putfile.com/Kanye79/wide[/url]
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Mike Myers response was classic.

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[quote name='Jamie_B' date='Sep 4 2005, 11:47 AM']Mike Myers response was classic.
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[quote name='Lucid' date='Sep 4 2005, 05:06 AM']Walk where exactly??? Sleep where??

I asked for your plan... "Get the fuck outta there" is not a plan... Walk like what 30 - 40 miles, to the country??

Then do what?  Have your wife and kids sleep in the mud in the woods with a hurricane passing overhead??  Do you have a tent?? Why would you, you are poor and live in the city... Besides, a tent would just blow away with you inside it...
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if you are looking for a destination, i would assume that the woods would be the [i]least[/i] logical shelter in the entire nation... i would have ended up away from the coast at a red cross center or another similar organization
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[i][b]That Kanye West Clip with Austin Powers literally made me piss my pants....

Holy shit............. Thanks for that shit........ Old you made my day for pointing that out [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//20.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//24.gif[/img] :D [/b][/i]


[b]the look on Chris Tuckers face :lol: [/b]

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[quote name='oldschooler' date='Sep 4 2005, 02:58 PM']Yeah that was hilarious...
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in a pathetic kind of way...
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[quote name='Bengal_Smoov' date='Sep 3 2005, 11:01 PM']On everything I love fuck you SteggyD, Storm, CTBengals, and any of you silly red neck sons of bitches.  Really and honestly fuck you, if you feeble minded fucks think that the people who are suffering the through the worst diaster in American history deserved this to happen to them then I sincerely wish I could kick your fucking ass.  These people who you so coldly through away and blame are harding working Americans who left to die because of the color of the skin, everyone who has been there has said that,l black and white.  You dumb fucks sit at home and watch what the media shows you and you have the nerve and gaul to judge and blame those who are suffering!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIKE I SAID BEFORE FUCK ALL YOU RACIST SONS OF BITCHES!!!!!!!!!~!!!!
OH YEAH I VOTED NO!
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let me get that fuckin rolleyes goin....

aawwwwwwww yea

here it comessssssssss

-----------------> :rolleyes: <----------------------

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[quote name='CTBengalsFan' date='Sep 3 2005, 07:23 PM']Thanks for your input Kanye, after all you are a rapper :rolleyes:

[url="http://media.putfile.com/Kanye79/wide"]http://media.putfile.com/Kanye79/wide[/url]
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I cant stop watching this, its like he has Tourette's. :crazy: [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//24.gif[/img]

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[quote name='BlackJesus' date='Sep 4 2005, 09:58 PM'][img]http://www.bright.net/~burke/soledad.jpg[/img]
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Soledad O'Brien is a hottie. :bowdown:

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