Posted on 09/24/2004 3:41:57 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
Numbers are now at 300,000+ homeless.
I won't give to the International Red Cross, do give to our local Red Cross affiliate.
Catholic Charities is collecting funds for Haiti and their record of distribution is excellent.
For Catholic Virginians, this Sunday's special collection is for Hurricane disaster relief.
Not to underestimate the impact on Haiti, but why didn't the press provide as much attention to the devastation in Grenada?
Prayers for all the people impacted by these storms.
The muslims are in Haiti and not all the work they do will be humanitarian...
It's not even a Catholic organization. Save your money for the Salvation Army, or even the Red Cross (though the Red Cross has a bad administration record). Send money to those who need it, not to bureacrats and 'delivery structure'.
Not to be picky, but Catholic Charities is rated 19 in effectiveness while Salvation Army is ranked 44.
I don't give a dime to Red Cross - I have "family" working for them..........
Well, because poor, black, non-English speaking people are better victims than white, well-to-do, English speaking folk. It just fits in with the liberal agenda alot better. You know, the whole "rich, white people deserve to suffer, lose thier homes, family, way of life etc. in a natural disaster...since they should have been redistributing their wealth to the poor and minorities. They're getting their punishment for being rich and white now HA!" Classic, evil, racist, liberal, entitlement, socialism dontchaknow. I'll forward you the memo.
Actually, it should read Numbers are now at 300,000+ hutless
Haiti got more exposure because the devastation was greater, and they have fewer resources to deal with it.
It isn't political, racial, yadda yadda...
Very sad, Hati is a mess to begin with let alone this tragedy.
Grenada's devastation was no less great, especially regarding the poor. The press barely reported it, though.
Just musing if Haiti has "liberal-favored-nation" status, and Grenada just doesn't fit their standards - are they still miffed at Reagan's intervention to kick out the leftists in Grenada, and are anxious to prop up Clinton's support of Aristede?
I didn't think Grenada lost as much property and lives as Haiti.
And I don't think it has favored status. The relief effort trips I made there were not political or liberal in nature.
I thought Clinton restored and saved Haiti??
Do you know how many people died in Grenada?
Get the U.N. to save them. What are we paying them for?
From what I've been able to gather, over 90% of the people are homeless. Tourism (their main revenue source) severely crippled long-term (hotels, roads, etc.) Major crop damage.
I'm not going to start minimizing what happened in Haiti - but have you considered that there might be reasons why the death toll is different? Infrastructure, topographic, economic, or cultural factors? How many died from the storm and how many from second-order effects (lack of sanitization?)
Claiming that this “excessive coverage” is some kind of anti-white anti-capitast racist conspiracy is the kind of kook nonsense that people quote in order to give FR a bad name.
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