Posted on 08/03/2017 4:33:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans there was a brief moment of shocked compassion before racial anxieties flooded the Internet. Victims of the disaster were quickly recast as looters, criminals, and layabouts. They were government “dependents” seeking even more entitlements now that they were bona fide survivors. Some of these hideous opinions drew on the physical “evidence” of the bad character of hurricane survivors: their size. The mostly black bodies crowding the Superdome, getting on rafts, and being carried away by helicopters, were too large for online critics. Obesity, while common in the US and over-represented in the South, was conflated with blackness. Black bodies fleeing New Orleans were not only linked to historic stereotypes of menace and criminality but also slothfulness, helplessness, and a tropical torpidity unwelcome in hard-working America.
African Americans are more likely to be obese in the United States than their white counterparts. The same is true for Hispanics. For some conservatives, that may be an indictment. For the rest of us, it is a public health problem. The rise in obesity in the U.S. is an epidemic and much of the root causes lie in poverty, a condition more prevalent in communities of color. In many U.S. cities, bodegas serve dinner in the form of chips and soda to low-income people living nearby who have no access to neighborhood supermarkets. For those without much money or options, fast food can be a blessing: a full meal that is quick and affordable in a safe and predictable setting. Yet, these very meals are one of the country’s biggest public health menaces. Filled with fat and sugar, fast food is contributing greatly to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.....
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Beans, potatoes and rice are all inexpensive. Spam is a good, cheap protein source.
Max apparently has forgotten the 2000 dollar per person ‘emergency fund’, and what it had been used for. People (those layabouts) used it for message, manicures, or worse, etc. etc.
They have no idea what ‘emergency fund’ is, all they know is that they got instant cash (from gubmint, i.e., the rest of us) for them to spend it all on “stuff”. And they did, instant gratification....
I lost a lot of sympathy for those people. [Of course, not everybody affected were as reckless. And I don’t mean to generalize it.]
Lumberton area?
The obvious answer is imposing a $10 Tax on Fries and a $20 Tax on Big Macs.
Most in Biloxi didn’t get that or the 5 years of free rent, etc. Too white I guess.
I was in ocean springs four days befor Katrina with friends who lived near the golf course on Biloxi bay on fairway court
Stilt house got flattened anyhow
Now they live up Wolf river behind Bay St Louis
Which bye I love...if i didn’t have a high school football star son right now I’d sell off and live on the water north of pass christian
Affordable even with deep water dock
I went through Camille just by the tracks off Rich Ave in 69
Learned my lesson well
The coast is still so bare isn’t it
Max ought to stroll around Louis Armstrong park on a Saturday night. It could be educational for him.
The Left is insane. I just don’t know how America’s problems will get resolved without a general purge of leftists.
The Algiers Motel killing.
A very ugly incident.
At that time I was dating a teacher at Ocean Springs High School. Katrina blew our relationship apart.
A person can’t use SNAP (food stamps) to purchase food at a restaurant.
Looter guy!
See...he wasn’t fat either.
Boo Freaking Woo!
People eat there, but they don't eat every meal there, do they?
They must be doing some cooking and eating some meals at home, or slapping together sandwiches, or gorging on chips, or maybe going to other places to eat.
Or maybe it's a matter of not getting exercise.
Anyway, obesity is a bigger problem than McDonald's or fast food restaurants in general.
Racial anxieties?
Racial anxieties?
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