Is it racism, or are we just looking for an excuse.

[in2wishin]

Just as the media is saturated with Hurrican Katrina coverage, so will be my journal with my thoughts and feelings of this disaster, as they happen upon me through the Journal Sentinal, or the New York Times (my newspapers of choice

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[runningit101004]

You said it, sista.

I do think people play the race card WAY too much. And minorities do have chances to be helped in today's society and many don't take advantage of them. Also, it makes me SICK that black people say that other black people are "acting white" if they speak PROPERLY and want to go to college and BE something.

I do also think, though, that the reaction to the hurricane may have been a tiny bit faster had it been all white people in trouble. I don't know. And yes, they did have adequate warning, but many were so poor that they didn't have a car to get out of the city. Still, I would have FOUND a way to leave, but I wasn't there. As for the shooting and looting, I already commented on that on my blog. I think they should have been SHOT.

I think black people could help themselves more, but for many of them, it isn't their fault that they grow up in crime-ridden neighborhoods with no fathers and mothers who are addicted to crack and on welfare. And they just keep having chilren. It's a vicious cycle that's hard to get out of if you're in it. These are generalizations, though, too.

I choose not to comment on such things too often because I've never been there, and you are about as far from it as a human being could be, so you should be careful when commenting on these issues, too. We make valid points, but we also aren't in their shoes.

(But don't get me wrong. I usually can't stand the entire culture. I'm not racist, I judge people on a person to person basis. There have been 90 homicides in Milwaukee this year and I don't think one of them was white. Coincidence? Or a HUGE ass problem? Yeah.)

Grrrrrrrr........... now you've gotten me all worked up!

Alright, I'm going to work. I'll see you on Sunday - I'm very excited.

MUAH

[in2wishin]

No your right and immidiatley after writing it I realized I'm making the same generalizations that I'm cursing them for making in the first place. And that's why I said, it's probably the white-bred girl in me feeling this way because I have NO CLUE what it's like to be in those circumstances and to be warned to leave everything you know and love at home without knowing if you'll ever see it again.

As for the response. I just have a hard time believing (as much as I LOATHE president bush) that there are people inherently evil like that, that they would be willing to overlook a suffering city simply because they were of substantially different color. I think he is a bad person...but I do not believe he is evil. Unfortunatley his resources are elsewhere, at a time when we needed them here.