Posted on 09/10/2005 6:36:51 AM PDT by angkor
Huh.
Vietnamese-Americans have been making a massive and generous effort to help their fellows affected by Katrina.
Jesse must be shaking his head in disbelief ...
Let me see if I understand. So the problem is that the Vietnamese are being too self sufficient and so we need to work out a strategy to make them more dependent? Why don't we force them into public schools? We'll have this self-sufficiency problem licked in a generation!
/sarcasm
How DARE they help themselves?!?
They need to act like the others and demand demand demand.
If they think the Vietmanese are too independent, the government and liberals never dealt with the Amish. In one aftermath of a severe tornado, most of the average American victims sat next to destroyed homes for a week waiting for the homeowner insurance check, the Amish from day one were getting together as a group and started to repair and rebuild homes, barns and etc.
"While conceding that it is a sensitive topic, some Vietnamese leaders say their community is reluctant to seek help at the Astrodome in part because of a history of racial tensions between Vietnamese and blacks.
The Vietnamese perceive the Astrodome and convention center as being shelters for blacks, said Thang, the Boat People S.O.S. head."
Bears repeating.
Yes, they are too self-sufficient. They don't know how to stick our their hands and whine. We must teach them the American way. Maybe just maybe they can model another way. How refreshing.
Awww, it hurts not to be needed.
Yes, they are too self-sufficient. They don't know how to stick our their hands and whine. We must teach them the American way. Maybe just maybe they can model another way. How refreshing.
Maybe they'd rather not take government aid. Nothing at all wrong with that. I applaud them for working together to rebuild.
The weird thrust of the story comes from Boat People S.O.S., an organization which gets a lot of funding from the feds, rather than from the Vietnamese community.
But the community organizations have been out and about delivering aid with a vengeance, and fast.
For example, several hunded evacuees showed up in Houston right after the storm. The local VN radio put out the call, and 80 percent of them were in private homes within 48 hours.
The Vietnamese, or the black?
VIETNAMESE!
I have seen blacks go out of their way several times to harass viets with the chant "suckee 5 dollar" and then laugh as the girls hurry away and that was in leavenworth kansas. The viets gravitated to the businesses and areas where their families could work together ussually poor areas and the race baiters (sharpton ,jackson etal.) encouraged boycots and other liberal activities. to take back their communities and support only the brothers. I have never seen viets harrasing blacks or any other groups.
They haven't been properly socialized.
They're a threat to the entire new world order.
They must be stopped at all costs.
< / sarcasm >
How can there be any Vietnamese evacuees? I thought that 100% of the displaced people were black, and hated by Bush??
My understanding is that Social Security is A-OK, because it's for the elderly, who are usually venerated in Vietnamese culture and need to be cared for.
Taking "welfare" or other government aid is considered to be lazy.
That's truly sick.
The Vietnamese are good hard working people and very proud people. I admire immigrants of their caliber.
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