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Old Sep 9, 2005 | 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by VIBEELEVEN
I wonder how many liquer stores/bars were looted?
Pretty much every one.
Old Sep 10, 2005 | 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Salty
I don't think he meant it quite like that. Besides, given the desperate times, those that were thought to be incapable of stooping to an all-time low pre-Katrina, are doing so to make ends now.
Oh come on now....The looting took place in the immediacy of the flooding. Those people had NOTHING and had lost EVERYTHING.

And remember...the blacks "LOOTED", but the whites "GATHERED"....according to the media.

Now, in light that an overwhelming majority of the refugees in houston are black, the statement "Few families would use the cards for good" is overtly racist on it's face.

I'm anything but PC my friend, but I do call it as I see it.
Old Sep 10, 2005 | 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by lojasmo
And remember...the blacks "LOOTED", but the whites "GATHERED"....according to the media.


How can you automatically call that a racist statement? You just assumed I was talking about black people. There are white people living in New Orleans that looted too. You are the only one that has connected "black" with "looting".
Old Sep 10, 2005 | 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by spedmunki
How can you automatically call that a racist statement? You just assumed I was talking about black people. There are white people living in New Orleans that looted too. You are the only one that has connected "black" with "looting".
An overwhelming majority of the refugees are black

You stated that "most" of the refugees would misuse their money.

Ergo, according to you, "most" of the people, almost all of them black, are going to misuse the money.

A frankly racist statement.

As far as me connecting "black" with "looting"--I was referenceing several articles in various publications where whites were reported to be "gathering supplies" while characterizing blacks, engaging in the same activities, as "looting"

I was pointing out blatant race discrimination embedded, semantically, in media reports....just as I was pointing out the racial impact of your assertion regarding the cash cards.
Old Sep 10, 2005 | 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by lojasmo
An overwhelming majority of the refugees are black

You stated that "most" of the refugees would misuse their money.

Ergo, according to you, "most" of the people, almost all of them black, are going to misuse the money.

A frankly racist statement.

As far as me connecting "black" with "looting"--I was referenceing several articles in various publications where whites were reported to be "gathering supplies" while characterizing blacks, engaging in the same activities, as "looting"

I was pointing out blatant race discrimination embedded, semantically, in media reports....just as I was pointing out the racial impact of your assertion regarding the cash cards.

lots of leaps of logic and assumptions in your statements, keep your game tighter..
Old Sep 10, 2005 | 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by lojasmo
Now, in light that an overwhelming majority of the refugees in houston are black, the statement "Few families would use the cards for good" is overtly racist on it's face.
Your logic assumes that most of the families would, in fact, use the cards for good despite the overwhelming amount of chaos and looting in NO last week. Then with the very same logic we can assume that if every family made wrong choices in life to be poverty stricken, then why should we assume they’ll know how to handle $2000?
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