Friday, September 02, 2005

Addendum to Aftermath--2

I was aggravated to hear a black reporter say the following...

"America is a fast food nation and we want what we want when we want it. The people in 3rd world countries often fare better in natural disasters, because they are more accustomed to having to wait for aid than Americans."

Give me a break. Give me a freakin' break!

Newsflash: THIS IS AMERICA!

The whole reason why we're not used to things like waiting for aid and rescue is because we shouldn't have to. This is the reason we pay taxes, we encourage people to join the National Guard, that we have organizations like FEMA. We trust that if we are law abiding, tax paying citizens, that in our time of need, our government will come to our aid.
That is the very reason why people in third world nations break their necks trying to buffet unjust immigration policies to settle here. It is the hope of a better life, of a government that will take care of its own before looking outside or to its own interests.

Unfortunately, this is not the case. If you're poor and black that is. And yes... I am going to harp on the race issue because every other international news agency is not shying away from it. Only American news agencies are scared to inject the race issue and raise the difficult questions. But you can't ignore it. You cannot. Can you imagine if this disaster struck Martha's Vineyard? The Hamptons? Would the fine residents of those cities be waiting for 5 days to be rescued from rising flood waters? I don't think so.

What do you all think?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

oh for petes this has NOTHING to do with racism. Good grief..this levy just broke on tuesday!!! I wish that african americans would quit harping on racism..not everything that happens goes back to racism.
Go Bush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

As much hatred as some african americans have for whites...don't you think that maybe THAT could be called racism? Oh but no, we never hear that side of things..

LadyCelticFire said...

I like how brave they are... So brave in fact that they hide beyond the word anonymous... WOW Surrr wish I's that brave... Don't ya hate when people are so powerful as to say this crap, but not powerful enough to attach their names onto their thoughts...