Myths of New Orleans: Poor, Bad Blacks -- Who Got What They Deserved

[SpursWoman]

Go objectively re-read the article...I think you're missing the point(s).

[Mr. Peabody]

Why don't we all just be a little more upfront about what we are thinking, which essentially is -- screw those Blacks, if they are too (insert -- lazy, stupid, reliant on others, etc.) they deserved to die.

I have heard it time and time again. I was at dinner with a wealthy individual from Houston and he was talking about how the educational system failed the people of New Orleans because they were too stupid to leave before the hurricane hit. He made his point by telling me about he had the brains to retreat to his ranch in North Texas for a few days when Hurricane Rita hit.

Go figure.
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[Mr. Peabody]

Go objectively re-read the article...I think you're missing the point(s).

No, the point is that the people of New Orleans were not as poor as people make them out to be. The author uses their lack of reliance on the welfare system as evidence of the lack of poverty and reliance on others. My point is that just because you are not on government aid doesn't necessarily mean that you are not poor.
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[Marcus Bryant]

No, the point is that the people of New Orleans were not as poor as people make them out to be. The author uses their lack of reliance on the welfare system as evidence of the lack of poverty and reliance on others. My point is that just because you are not on government aid doesn't necessarily mean that you are not poor.

Can't disagree with that.

[SpursWoman]

Why don't we all just be a little more upfront about what we are thinking, which essentially is -- screw those Blacks, if they are too (insert -- lazy, stupid, reliant on others, etc.) they deserved to die

Nope, I wasn't thinking that at all. Sometimes I have a knee-jerk reaction to post something smart-ass in a thread started by NBADan because it amuses me.

[Useruser666]

Plus, lest we forget it was not the hurricane that caused all of the destruction, it was the levees breaching. People rode out the hurricane only to be hit with a deluge of water. So now you're asking people to anticipate the breach of the levees.

I don't think you are correct on the point of the levees. The water was actually flowing out of the levee breaches for days after the hurricane hit. Many of the breaches were in fact caused by water flowing over the top of them during the hurricane. The city was not completely flooded by the breaches as much as there was no way to hold the water back to attempt a draining of the low lying areas.

Also, the only people who have an excuse for not getting out of the area are those you can not MOVE on their own. I mean people who are infirm or disabled. I can walk 50 miles in three days. 50 miles would mean the difference in drowning or living in New Orleans during the hurricane.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Wow....if it were me & my kids I'd rather sleep in my car that I pushed 100 miles and eat cardboard then die. But that's just me.

And I believe it is understood that there were sick and elderly that needed assistance that they didn't get. A significant portion of them were neither.

I'm sure you would get out. So would I. Doesn't mean I'm going to pass judgment on those that couldn't get out. But hey, that's just me. I care about those that less fortunate than I am.

[Useruser666]

I'm sure you would get out. So would I. Doesn't mean I'm going to pass judgment on those that couldn't get out. But hey, that's just me. I care about those that less fortunate than I am.

Who says they don't care about those less fortunate?

[SpursWoman]

I'm sure you would get out. So would I. Doesn't mean I'm going to pass judgment on those that couldn't get out. But hey, that's just me. I care about those that less fortunate than I am.

Okay...*they* weren't too poor, too lazy, too black or too stupid. The only other explaination I can see is that they had to have been suicidal. Because that is the only rationale that doesn't fall under "too stupid" for an otherwise healthy person to stay in a death trap.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Okay...*they* weren't too poor, too lazy, too black or too stupid. The only other explaination I can see is that they had to have been suicidal. Because that is the only rationale that doesn't fall under "too stupid" for an otherwise healthy person to stay in a death trap.

they were/are poor.

[Useruser666]

Even the poor can walk.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Even the poor can walk.

good idea. Why don't you start now?

[SpursWoman]

That was relevant ... good response.

[Oh, Gee!!]

That was relevant ... good response.

We'd never come to an agreement, so I have to resort to personal insults.

[SpursWoman]

If you were in that situation and didn't have a car, would you just sit there or would you do whatever you could do to GTFO of dodge?

[Oh, Gee!!]

If you were in that situation and didn't have a car, would you just sit there or would you do whatever you could do to GTFO of dodge?

I'm not 100K poor, bleck people.

[SpursWoman]

I'm not 100K poor, bleck people.

I didn't ask your nationality or financial status....I just asked what you'd do.

[Oh, Gee!!]

I'd get me a plasma screen and several cases of Heineken

[SpursWoman]

[Mr. Peabody]

If you were in that situation and didn't have a car, would you just sit there or would you do whatever you could do to GTFO of dodge?

I would sit in my home hundreds of miles away from the hurricane and in my quiet, peaceful solitude, I would criticize those who couldn't get out in time.

Oh wait, did you ask what I would do or what you would do?
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[Oh, Gee!!]

I would sit in my home hundreds of miles away from the hurricane and in my quiet, peaceful solitude, I would criticize those who couldn't get out in time.

Oh wait, did you ask what I would do or what you would do?

Game. Set. Match.

[Useruser666]

good idea. Why don't you start now?

That was a personal insult? Can the poor not walk? I really don't understand the point to what you are saying. Even a person who has no money and has nothing but the shirt on their back can move a significant distance on foot or whatever means they may have availible to them. Only the infirm, disabled, or otherwise immobile are exempt from this. I wasn't attacking the poor, or any other groups of people if that's what you were implying. I would rather walk 50 miles than be at 20 feet below sea level at land fall of a hurricane. Race and poverty would not keep me from walking.

[Useruser666]

I would sit in my home hundreds of miles away from the hurricane and in my quiet, peaceful solitude, I would criticize those who couldn't get out in time.

Oh wait, did you ask what I would do or what you would do?

I would critize someone for stating their opinion on something I have no greater knowledge of myself.

[Oh, Gee!!]

That was a personal insult? Can the poor not walk? I really don't understand the point to what you are saying. Even a person who has no money and has nothing but the shirt on their back can move a significant distance on foot or whatever means they may have availible to them. Only the infirm, disabled, or otherwise immobile are exempt from this. I wasn't attacking the poor, or any other groups of people if that's what you were implying. I would rather walk 50 miles than be at 20 feet below sea level at land fall of a hurricane. Race and poverty would not keep me from walking.

Walk to where? What do they do when they get there? What about money and food? When would they be allowed to walk back home?

[SpursWoman]

Oh wait, did you ask what I would do or what you would do?

Of course. But I asked what he would do IF HE WERE IN THAT SITUATION. If you were in your home hundreds of miles away from the hurricane then that means you weren't in that situation. Which wasn't my question.


But...

I would sit in my home hundreds of miles away from the hurricane and in my quiet, peaceful solitude, I would criticize those who couldn't get out in time.

Of course you would....just like you are free to do so in every thread on an internet opinion forum that you participate in. Just like this one, as a matter of fact. If it's not black people, poor people, Presidents, Senators, Spurs players or whatever. That's what forums are for.