"I am absolutely disgusted. After the tsunami our people, even the ones who lost everything, wanted to help the others who were suffering," said Sajeewa Chinthaka, 36, as he watched a cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

"Not a single tourist caught in the tsunami was mugged. Now with all this happening in the U.S. we can easily see where the civilized part of the world's population is."

I know it's against everything college teaches you but, i have some shocking news. Black people commit more violent crime than white people. Poor people commit crimes at higher rates than rich people. Anyone who didn't expect poor black communities that have faced centuries of racism to explode into anger & violence at the sight of all the rich white people escaping the city is either stupid or blinded by multiculturalist bulls**t. Someday someone (other than Bill Cosby) is going to have to get the balls to stand up and say it or things will only get worse.

People of different races and different classes react differently because they are different. No amount of cultural relativism or affirmative action is going to change this. Slavery changed the genetics in a huge portion of the population for the worse. This has had long standing ramifications and we are seeing a real example of it now. I also think that no one can deny that popular black culture glorifies street crime. All the pieces of a disaster are there, and look what happened.



We need to stop being afraid of being called racists and start changing things. The "american taboo" against mentioning these differences is part of the problem. The government should have recognized the demographics and sent in forces to respond accordingly.

let's save this argument for another thread and get back on topic. we're not here to argue race differences and how they play a part in responding, but the emergency response to this disaster.

Sorry, and I didn't mean to offend anyone, I am just sick of hearing about how white people intentionally let people of color suffer. It's scapegoating BS.

I know it's against everything college teaches you but, i have some shocking news. Black people commit more violent crime than white people. Poor people commit crimes at higher rates than rich people. Anyone who didn't expect poor black communities that have faced centuries of racism to explode into anger & violence at the sight of all the rich white people escaping the city is either stupid or blinded by multiculturalist bulls**t. Someday someone (other than Bill Cosby) is going to have to get the balls to stand up and say it or things will only get worse.

People of different races and different classes react differently because they are different. No amount of cultural relativism or affirmative action is going to change this. Slavery changed the genetics in a huge portion of the population for the worse. This has had long standing ramifications and we are seeing a real example of it now. I also think that no one can deny that popular black culture glorifies street crime. All the pieces of a disaster are there, and look what happened.



We need to stop being afraid of being called racists and start changing things. The "american taboo" against mentioning these differences is part of the problem. The government should have recognized the demographics and sent in forces to respond accordingly.

i completely understand how you feel, and would enjoy that discussion (we've had it before, too, i'll PM you the link) i just wanted to keep the thread on topic.

that argument is wrong on so many levels I cant even begin to address it.

I don't think anyone is intentionally ignoring anyone, regardless of color, but if we see a racial disparity in the relief efforts or preparations, I think we'd better damn well feel free to discuss it.

I know it's against everything college teaches you but, i have some shocking news. Black people commit more violent crime than white people. Poor people commit crimes at higher rates than rich people. Anyone who didn't expect poor black communities that have faced centuries of racism to explode into anger & violence at the sight of all the rich white people escaping the city is either stupid or blinded by multiculturalist bulls**t. Someday someone (other than Bill Cosby) is going to have to get the balls to stand up and say it or things will only get worse.

People of different races and different classes react differently because they are different. No amount of cultural relativism or affirmative action is going to change this. Slavery changed the genetics in a huge portion of the population for the worse. This has had long standing ramifications and we are seeing a real example of it now. I also think that no one can deny that popular black culture glorifies street crime. All the pieces of a disaster are there, and look what happened.



We need to stop being afraid of being called racists and start changing things. The "american taboo" against mentioning these differences is part of the problem. The government should have recognized the demographics and sent in forces to respond accordingly.

I often wonder if it isn't equally racist and patronizing for liberals to excuse and overlook what is obviously wrong just because it is being perpetrated by blacks. I am saddened and ashamed at the images of young blacks looting and rampaging like screeching apes unleashed from the zoo. Like Haiti and Liberia my brothers and sistas grinnin' with gluttonous glee and proferring bullshit justification, "Fuck it, I'm gettin' my shit! All the heineken I can carry and a plasma tv too, beeyatch!! You can wonder if the images are slanted and all the white looters have been edited out, you can scream racism and bemoan their poverty and desperation, or call it the fruit of rabid american consumerism, I could argue all of these but the fact remains that the footage of blacks running riot reaffirms the perception of many on the other side of the Bell's curve ( and I imagine secretly some well-meaning progressives as well) that 'niggers' are thieving babboons. I loathe the political climate(Bushco) and the social climate (Christofascism) of this country right now and I am not ignorant to the devices of those that mean us African-americans only ill will. But I can't excuse what these people, MY PEOPLE are doing. The contrast between the black looters in New Orleans and the salt of the earth whites in Miss. was glaring. I weep knowing that they are feeding the poisonous mauw of rush and his ilk, and I weep knowing that many of them couldn't give a damn how it looks. What happened to our dignity? where is our moral shame? The end of the rant is here;...it doesn't do us any good for progressives to tolerate and condone in blacks what they wouldn't condone in their own children. Such a thing makes us little more than pets that poop on the carpet as you wipe it up and pet our wooly heads assuring us "That's alright, D'Juan." God, I hated seeing this shit on tv tonight.

This is a response that was posted to that blog with the "Niggers Steal, Whites Find" story that B posted yesterday:

i think this is more a discussion of class/poverty than it is of race - unfortunately, we happen to live in a society (or at least in nola) where the majority of the lower class is of one particular race.

that argument is wrong on so many levels I cant even begin to address it.

poor is poor

poverty doesn't care about race

I find it absolutely moronic that someone would post that blacks commit more violent crime and not understand that's a problem dealing with poverty and not a result of skin color. I really hope that's not what some iris said

Harvard Analyst on "Acting White" and it's impact on black economics:
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/fryer/papers/fryer_torelli.pdf

i think this is more a discussion of class/poverty than it is of race - unfortunately, we happen to live in a society (or at least in nola) where the majority of the lower class is of one particular race.