Things I have learned recently
Pixie
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Things I have learned from watching the news on TV during the last eight days:
The hurricane only hit black families' property.
New Orleans was devastated and no other city was affected by the hurricane .
Mississippi is reported to have a tree blown down.
New Orleans has no white people.
The hurricane blew a limb off a tree in the yard of an Alabama resident.
When you are hungry after a hurricane, steal a big screen TV.
The hurricane did 23 billion dollars in improvements to New Orleans. Now the city is welfare, looters and gang free and they are in your city .
White folks don't make good news stories.
Don't give thanks to the thousands that came to help rescue you, instead b*tch because the government hasn't given you a debit card yet.
Only black family members got separated in the hurricane rescue efforts.
Ignore warnings to evacuate and the white folks will come get you and give you money for being stupid.
The hurricane only hit black families' property.
New Orleans was devastated and no other city was affected by the hurricane .
Mississippi is reported to have a tree blown down.
New Orleans has no white people.
The hurricane blew a limb off a tree in the yard of an Alabama resident.
When you are hungry after a hurricane, steal a big screen TV.
The hurricane did 23 billion dollars in improvements to New Orleans. Now the city is welfare, looters and gang free and they are in your city .
White folks don't make good news stories.
Don't give thanks to the thousands that came to help rescue you, instead b*tch because the government hasn't given you a debit card yet.
Only black family members got separated in the hurricane rescue efforts.
Ignore warnings to evacuate and the white folks will come get you and give you money for being stupid.
Comments
As Jimmy would say, "Some things are still a mystery to me, like why people live like they do"
I guess I'll never be a criminal - I just didn't get it either, when I saw people stealing tvs!
I think your post shows the sympathy level for New Orleans waning a bit. It looks like a backlash is on its way.
Listening to Stern this morning on the way to work. A 34 year old black woman named Shirley called in to say her husband took a truck to a store that had a foot of water in it. They took about $50,000 worth of equipment including 42" Plasma TV's and the like.
Some of it is listed on Ebay, but she wanted to sell the items to Sterns listeners during the show.
Howard upbraided her about being a thief and how could she live with herself; wasn't the store owner a victim too?, etc etc.
She said - look, the store is completely underwater now - most people were not covered for flood insurance or flood insurance would not cover these types of items - so the fact that the owner lost goods to looting meant he would be covered by insurance whereas if he lost the stuff to flooding he would not.
She was completely OK with it because they needed it to survive. The TV was $900 bucks and she would ship it.
I still don't get it.
Also marc, I heard that segement on Howard Stern this morning, but did not recall that the person who called was black. In fact, she sounded to me like a southern white person. Was she identified as black?
The real issue is not race, but the total disregard for others property and the thought process rationalizing their looting.
If I recall, Stern chastised them for loading their truck with electronics rather than people or pets needing rescue, and the lady thought it was OK as long as the insurance company would pay for any loss to the owner, who would otherwise be stuck with a loss not covered by insurance - as though she even knows what was happening with this business.
And of course, it's as if none of the rest of us will bear any burden because insurance costs will not go up all over the country. It's OK, as long as they get theirs, which was really someone elses.
There's a time to steal. I would steal bread to feed a starving dying child. Maybe I'm stupid. Stealing a tv, selling it on ebay for $900 would buy lots of bread for lots of people. This person is looking at the big picture - pun intended.
"G@d da*&it, real compared to what?"
OR is this just another reference to Venus and Mars?