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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
I don't think anything has angered me more than the tying of the hurricane story to a racial story and implying that somehow people were left to die because of their race. That is a pernicious lie that assumes that those in charge of rescue efforts are truly evil and just don't care about black people dying. Of course, there is no mention of the white people in communtities surrounding New Orleans or in Mississippi who lost everything in the storm. There is no discussion of the race of the rescuers. And there is no acknowledgement of the millions of people who are helping those impacted, donating money, welcoming them in to their communities, holding bake sales, etc. to help the victims of the hurricane. No, it's all about racist America. It's a real credit to the good heartedness of Americans that people haven't just been fed up with this attack on them as racists that they haven't just closed up their wallets and said, "if that's the way you feel about me, I'll prove you right." But people aren't doing that, because it isn't about race and it isn't about who the victims are except that they need help and Americans are incredibly generous.
John Hawkins has waded through the muck and compiled the most vile quotes about the hurricane. It makes me angry all over again.
I think the media is greatly at fault here. I hadn't even though of this angle until a couple days into the story when the media jumped on race and said that it was the subtext of the entire story in New Orleans. No, it wasn't until you made it a story about race and started asking people if they thought the reason they were not getting help was because of race. Then all the race-mongers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton jumped on that story. And now it's becoming commonplace. This wasn't the OJ Simpson story until the media made it that way. And they should be shamed to stick a knife into America's wound and then pour salt on it. Look at the newest Gallup poll on this subject.Six in 10 African-Americans say the fact that most hurricane victims were poor and black was one reason the federal government failed to come to the rescue more quickly. Whites reject that idea; nearly 9 in 10 say those weren't factors.If every story becomes one of race then we will never achieve Martin Luther King's dream of a color-blind society. People will never find out what were the reasons why aid was slow in getting to those people stranded in their city because the assumption will be that it was government incompetence or even personal errors but was just due to racism that somehow slowed up everyone's actions, including those of the black mayor of New Orleans who neglected to have an adequate evacuation plan and to evacuate those citizens of his city who didn't have their own transportation. Was he racist also? What about the black police chief who had policemen leave their jobs? Was that also racism? The media is happily driving a wedge between the races and they should be truly ashamed.
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I don't think anything has angered me more than the tying of the hurricane story to a racial story and implying that somehow people were left to die because of their race. That is a pernicious lie that assumes that those in charge of rescue efforts are truly evil and just don't care about black people dying. Of course, there is no mention of the white people in communtities surrounding New Orleans or in Mississippi who lost everything in the storm. There is no discussion of the race of the rescuers. And there is no acknowledgement of the millions of people who are helping those impacted, donating money, welcoming them in to their communities, holding bake sales, etc. to help the victims of the hurricane. No, it's all about racist America. It's a real credit to the good heartedness of Americans that people haven't just been fed up with this attack on them as racists that they haven't just closed up their wallets and said, "if that's the way you feel about me, I'll prove you right." But people aren't doing that, because it isn't about race and it isn't about who the victims are except that they need help and Americans are incredibly generous.
John Hawkins has waded through the muck and compiled the most vile quotes about the hurricane. It makes me angry all over again.
I think the media is greatly at fault here. I hadn't even though of this angle until a couple days into the story when the media jumped on race and said that it was the subtext of the entire story in New Orleans. No, it wasn't until you made it a story about race and started asking people if they thought the reason they were not getting help was because of race. Then all the race-mongers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton jumped on that story. And now it's becoming commonplace. This wasn't the OJ Simpson story until the media made it that way. And they should be shamed to stick a knife into America's wound and then pour salt on it. Look at the newest Gallup poll on this subject.
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I don't think anything has angered me more than the tying of the hurricane story to a racial story and implying that somehow people were left to die because of their race. That is a pernicious lie that assumes that those in charge of rescue efforts are truly evil and just don't care about black people dying. Of course, there is no mention of the white people in communtities surrounding New Orleans or in Mississippi who lost everything in the storm. There is no discussion of the race of the rescuers. And there is no acknowledgement of the millions of people who are helping those impacted, donating money, welcoming them in to their communities, holding bake sales, etc. to help the victims of the hurricane. No, it's all about racist America. It's a real credit to the good heartedness of Americans that people haven't just been fed up with this attack on them as racists that they haven't just closed up their wallets and said, "if that's the way you feel about me, I'll prove you right." But people aren't doing that, because it isn't about race and it isn't about who the victims are except that they need help and Americans are incredibly generous.
John Hawkins has waded through the muck and compiled the most vile quotes about the hurricane. It makes me angry all over again.
I think the media is greatly at fault here. I hadn't even though of this angle until a couple days into the story when the media jumped on race and said that it was the subtext of the entire story in New Orleans. No, it wasn't until you made it a story about race and started asking people if they thought the reason they were not getting help was because of race. Then all the race-mongers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton jumped on that story. And now it's becoming commonplace. This wasn't the OJ Simpson story until the media made it that way. And they should be shamed to stick a knife into America's wound and then pour salt on it. Look at the newest Gallup poll on this subject.
Six in 10 African-Americans say the fact that most hurricane victims were poor and black was one reason the federal government failed to come to the rescue more quickly. Whites reject that idea; nearly 9 in 10 say those weren't factors.If every story becomes one of race then we will never achieve Martin Luther King's dream of a color-blind society. People will never find out what were the reasons why aid was slow in getting to those people stranded in their city because the assumption will be that it was government incompetence or even personal errors but was just due to racism that somehow slowed up everyone's actions, including those of the black mayor of New Orleans who neglected to have an adequate evacuation plan and to evacuate those citizens of his city who didn't have their own transportation. Was he racist also? What about the black police chief who had policemen leave their jobs? Was that also racism? The media is happily driving a wedge between the races and they should be truly ashamed.
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