[squirt-gun]

What is it that bends and twists the soul of man in New Orleans such that he shoots at his rescuers, steals televisions while others drown, and then blames all and sundry for not helping enough?

Poor genetics.

[Graybeard58]

Poor genetics.

What does the welfare mentality have to do with genetics?

[rdb3]

Poor genetics.

Genetics, you say? Pick up your hood. You dropped it.

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[John Robertson]

That's just stupid. And ignorant.

The author said that other nearby areas have near-identical racial makeups, but that they didn't descend to the depths of depraved behavior that a segment of New Orleanians did. His point was: They were created, by the socialistic, but inept, government in NO.

[varyouga]

"Poor genetics"

That's exactly what the hippies around here say when they argue for eternal welfare. "They don't have good genes like us so we have to give them our stuff". "Black people are innately stupid and need help from the state to do everything".

That's REAL racism and DU will make you feel right at home if you believe it.

[Texas Jack]

In this world someone who works 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and supports a family is called a "fool." Those who sell drugs, rape, rob, and kill are seen as "getting over." That is "getting over" -- on "the man" who is "holding us all down." This mentality is the product of the welfare state. New Orleans is one of a few cities where welfare has been taken to its full logic.

I've always been puzzled by African-Americans calling Bill Clinton the first black president. He wasn't especially nice to them, that I recall. In fact, he was openly aggressive and abusive to blacks when he thought he needed political push from whites.

I concluded that it was because during his presidency he violated what we consider civilized norms of society, he defamed the Office of the President. He committed crimes and basically told those who frowned on his actions to "shove it," and he got away with it. In short, he displayed his contempt for traditional American societal behavior.

I believe that there is an underlying feeling of contempt for traditional values that permeates the black community in the United States. It's this contempt for traditional values that bonds blacks with Bill Clinton. They wish they could show their contempt (as the looters and shooters did) and get away with it like Clinton.

It will be there as long as the demorats thirst for power justifies what they are doing to these people. They need to be able to depend on those votes.

I look for the politicians in Louisiana to call for some type of absentee ballot arrangement for the 250,000 demorat votes that left New Orleans. Without them, they can't win.