The dark side of black people

Jamaica Star ^ | Leighton Levy

[airborne]

I wonder how long before this gets pulled?

It does raise some interesting points, though.

[over3Owithabrain]

It's not the color, it's the culture. New Orleans was a racially-charged blackocracy that embraced the plantation-welfare state. A disaster like Katrina just busted it wide open for all to see.

[moog]

The title wasn't the best choice of words.

[najida]

Ditto,
It is culture and history and the slavery of low expectations that hurt those people more than anything else.

[wideawake]

I guarantee that if more fathers in New Orleans had married the mothers of their children and raised their children, the misbehavior we saw would not have happened.

That's a fact.

[Artemis Webb]

You are totally correct. It has nothing to do with the color of their skin. Most of us are the same color as the Nazis but I sure don't feel any sense of kindred with them.

What happened in NO is purely the end result of Johnson's "Great Society".

[scott7278]

It's not the color, it's the culture.

Well said.

[NewCenturions]

And yet there are wonderful role models like Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice.

[nuconvert]

Has Thomas Sowell written about this yet?

[Kennesaw]

"It's not the color, it's the culture. "

I Concur.

[caver]

"The title wasn't the best choice of words."

No but it is kind of humorous.

[alisasny]

I recently read Sowell's Black Rednecks and White Liberals.
I think that book says it all.

[cyborg]

If some freepers don't get insulting, maybe it won't.

[Heatseeker]

For every black looter or thug there were people like Jabbar Gibson, the 20 year old bus "thief" who rescued 70 people himself, and countless others who helped the sick or elderly, often at great risk to themselves.

[RangerM]

The only thing I wonder is why the "black leaders" justify such actions as the result of "oppression". In other words, if you are poor (and black?), then you are justified in stealing from your neighbor (be it a business or individual).

I would refuse to indict anyone caught stealing food, water, and within reason, clothing (after all, I don't know what these people lost). Desparate times call for desparate measures, but a Game Boy is not going to feed/clothe/protect anyone.

Another telling indication is that some of the most common and first thing(s) taken were guns/ammo. Were they for intended to protect or prey? Watch for the gun control nuts to come out in force.

[marvlus]

Desperation? Yeah, right. I am beginning to believe that black people, no matter where in the world they are, are cursed with a genetic predisposition to steal, murder, and create mayhem.

It's kind of funny, I said something along these lines to my mother a couple of days after the hurricane. However, I believe the majority of black people are good people.

[NonValueAdded]

Not the best treatment of the subject since it serves to perpetuate stereotypes with little or no firm evidence to condemn an entire race. Some introspection is needed and it can only come from the community, but it needs to be studied, not anecdotal. I'd rather hear what Cos has to say.

The man stealing diapers was dealing with survival needs as anyone with a child in diapers can attest. With access to fresh water for washing, maybe then you could fault the guy for not using the tablecloth to make the improvised red and white checkered diaper. Or perhaps take Teh-ray-za's advice and let the kid poop up the place au natural.

No, the underclass - black or white - is the problem here and the demographics in the Big Hard make this particular incident a predominantly black one. But consider what would have happened if this storm hit Southie in Bean Town instead. Simply run the negative instead of the print.

[2banana]

Wait until the stories of the way the gangs preyed on the tourists come out...

[ExcursionGuy84]

Rice alone has got The LOOKS to cow even the toughest looter with a full magazine.