Black refugees ask if Utah will really accept them

Reuters ^ | September 9, 2005

[RWR8189]

You can't blame many of these young folks for being happy to be out of the slums of inner city life.

And I'm sure if they make positive contributions to society, Utah will be more than happy to embrace them.

[SolidSupplySide]

Black refugees ask if Utah will really accept them

Will anyone call this racism?

[Mears]

I would find the climate change the hardest thing.

[Paleo Conservative]

The lack of humidity is opressive.

[rineaux]

they are part of Utah already. New Orleans Jazz/Utah Jazz.

[Shazbot29]

She said rescuers picked them up only after a lighter-skinned black woman waved down a helicopter.

Give me an F'in break! The Jessie Jackson victomhood mentality kicks in again.

[hipaatwo]

I think maybe this is what Jesse and Al fear the most. People getting out of the slums and realizing it's not the "white man" that hurt them as much as the race baters.

[brytlea]

Maybe they weren't picked up earlier because they were busy looting a tv?
susie

[colorcountry]

I have a business here in SLC.. I'll hire one for handyman, and I'll start him at $10.00 per hour with benefits.

Looks like I'd better get in touch with Camp Williams.

[battlegearboat]

They have to pass muster with Robert Redford first.

[xrp]

"Any time you go in where you are in the minority -- and I'm experienced in this -- it's going to be more difficult," said Wayne Mortimer, mayor of Bluffdale next to Camp Williams.

I feel his pain. As a 4th generation American of Swedish descent, I too feel uneasy since Americans of Swedish descent are not 50% + 1 of the United States' populace.

[BlessedByLiberty]

"His ex-wife Tanya Andrews, 44, said race played a part in their escape from flooded New Orleans, an adventure which she said included looting food, a television and a boat to get to higher land."

I must be dense as a fence post, how does looting a television set get you to hire ground unless you float on it? Mystified!

[bethtopaz]

My boyfriend is black (i'm white) and he's from Mississippi. He was raised in a great, middle-class family. His mom is an English teacher and his dad was the superintendent of food service at the school district in his little town. He had a good life, a full scholarship for track to MS Valley State, but he is very self-conscious still about being black.

Blacks from the S.F. Bay Area are quite different because they are used to being accepted. But my boyfriend told me, "If I took you back to Mississippi, there are people who would hang me if they could. There are still places Blacks can't/won't go - because of the intense pressure."

It's getting better everywhere, but there is something about the deep South that I don't think many of us can understand, unless we were from there.

[Right Wing Assault]

The lack of humidity is opressive.

Yeah, wait until NO folks find out that the humidity can be less than 90%. Culture shock.

[Norman Conquest]

Were I an evacuee, I would take for granted the kindness of those who offered me a place to live, and put my focus on being worthy of those mercies.

[Argus]

"What if I find a Caucasian girl and decide to date her?

You just hit town, man. Why don't you worry about finding a job first?

Sheesh.

[seamus]

His ex-wife Tanya Andrews, 44, said race played a part in their escape from flooded New Orleans, an adventure which she said included looting food, a television and a boat to get to higher land. She said rescuers picked them up only after a lighter-skinned black woman waved down a helicopter.

Maybe the helicopter didn't stop by because they couldnt' fit the freakin' TV in there. I know if I'm starving and desperate, the three things's I'd loot woudl be food to eat, a boat to escape in, and a TV to watch football on.

[Question Liberal Authority]

By a strange coincidence, groups of Mormons who visit New Orleans have many of the same questions.

[rineaux]

"Any time you go in where you are in the minority

now he knows how whitty felt in NO.