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[sadisticsiren]

what the hell is wrong with people? seriously. new orleans is in utter ruin, the death toll in mississippi is steadily rising, people are without shelter, food, water and all i hear are people whining about the price of gasoline. it's disgusting! is this what we have become? we are more concerned with our wallets than the welfare and safety of

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[prismdragon]

My brother and I were having that exact same discussion, yesterday.
They say that they mobilized the relief squad, yesterday and it will take 2 weeks for them to get there. Two Fucking Weeks! Why the fuck wasn't so long. People have been litterally floating adrift for days without food or drinking water and still, nothing. They can mobilize armed forces to stop the looting and such, but not have them bring anything other than ice and water? None, don't get me wrong; water is needed and I'm sure it's appreciated, but it's people hungry as hell there and alot of them are children. You can save the starving in other countries, but you can't do shit for your own? Where the fuck is the Red Cross, now? Were are all the air-boats dropping off food and supplies?

Another thing, I've noticed some towns, like here in Baltimore, are openning up their convention centers so that the show can still go on. What the fuck? Instead helping transport the people here, you transport the business that would've been at the New Orleans Convention Center, to this one and not the fucking people? You ask everyday citizens to open up their homes, but a massive space like the Convention Center will take none? RhinoShit!
Normally, I'm a heartless bastard and I'll be the first to tell you that, but this got under my skin abit. I never was a flag waiver, but I thinking about being a flag burner.
Bush is running this fucking country in the hole and beyond...
Get off you pampered ass and do something!

[sadisticsiren]

as much as i hate to pull this card out, i gotta, if this shit had happened in the fucking hamptons or beverly hills lil' georgie would have tripped over himself to get sufficient aid there.

i've seen news reports on various news sites showing white people chest deep in water carrying food and the caption reads something along the lines of "so and so walking through chest deep water carrying bread they found at a local grocery store" and you'll see a picture of a black guy wading through the same water carrying food and you'll see a caption that reads "so and so walks through chest deep water carrying food that was looted from local grocery store". how the fuck is it that they are both in the same situation but they are seen completely differently by the fucked up, so-called unbiased media?

no one can honestly tell me that the lack of help being given has nothing at all to do with the fact that a large percentage of people trapped are poor and black. it's infuriating! what the fuck man? if a bunch of white people, not even rich people, just white middle class people, they'd be all fucking over it.

i am so sick of hearing how people are acting like animals there. if you were forced to live in the kinds of conditions that those people are i doubt very much that any of us would be able to maintain our composure for very long. if any of us were forced to live amongst filth it would push us to the brink. jesus christ what a fucking mess.

[knightofbob]

I was just reading an article about that over at Snopes earlier. The fact is that the pictures were from different agencies, and the photographers actually witnessed the black man emerging from the supposedly closed grocery store in the one instance, and that the other merely witnessed a white couple carrying what he could only assume to be sustenance among what revealed itself to be foodstuffs floating in the flood. I'm not saying it won't come up, but it isn't fair to paint this particular instance as racist.

[sadisticsiren]

so they witnessed the black guy looting but they assumed that the white people found the food floating in the water? that's what i'm talking about kob. everyone is looting, white, black, it doesn't matter. i just find it infuriating that it's assumed that the black man was looting while the white folks found whatever it is that they had. it's the fact that regardless of what may or may not have been seen by each individual reporter it comes across in a bad way. it's not fair to assume that the intent is racist but it sure as hell comes across that way.

[knightofbob]

It's an unfortunate coincidence, but that's all you can really credit it as.