Higher percentage of White People killed in New Orleans by Katrina, Does GWB Hate White People?
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I bet if you looked at the overall population in the area that was hit by Kartrina, I bet it would show that the majority of it was occupied by white people, (only the city of New Orleans is probably one of the few areas that has a majority black population) yet the deaths are probably nearly equal... so if there were many more white people hit, yet almost an equal number died, then it's not a very pretty picture...
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No I don't think so and I am so sick of hearing the race card get played.\n\n1st of all Mayor Nagin had the power to evacuate his City before even bothering to contact the President but Mayor Nagin failed.\n\n2nd of all a lot of residents of New Orleans chose to stay in their homes when they were warned.
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To Ben/Sex : You need to get off of ur high horse! The kkk and the NAACP are in totally different capacities.The NAACP is not a hate group like the kkk. The NAACP never hurt or killed anyone. The kkk have burned down homes,burned crosses on people's properties and hung alot of Black abiding citizens. Blacks deserved same thing as whites. We are over dued! You are Ignorant!\n\nTo the questioner: People like Ben do not understand the true depths of slavery and these people like this think about themselves and not others! Whites do just tolerate and some go as far as not wanting us to come to their homes and churches in the year 2006.Slavery made be over literally for as chain and whips but whites are spiritually and mentally in bondage against blacks,asians,jews and hispanics! The kkk is still protesting to this day against equality. They used religion as a weapon to say that God sees other races as a abomination. They are sick people.What goes around comes around!
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Well, your question can be reverse?  Why do you  consider whites blaming black...etc..etc?.  It a simple answer, because of the visible "spokesmen".  Unfortunately, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are your "spokesmen".  If you do not want their message being spread then you must silence them.  Just as I must silence the spokesmen of my race that spew hatred.
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Because too many of them have taken advantage of the system.  I've been to New Orleans there are so many jobs now it is crazy.  Construction and restaurant jobs are bountiful.  My question to you is, what percentage of those "victims" ever took care of themselves before?  How many relied on the government before the storm.  Why is it that other areas devastated by the storm have begun their recovery.\nWhy should the federal government have to endow these people with never ending aid?   I have many friends who have lost everything from Katrina.  They took the feds help to get restarted and now are rebuilding their lives.  \nAt some point in time you must take care of yourself.
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its sickening how poorly white people are treated.\n tisk tisk
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Depends on where it hits and how strong it is. \n\nNew Orleans is an example of how big a social impact a single storm can have. Katrina wiped out the heart of the French influenced part of the US. It will likely cause the demise of FEMA. It has all but elimanated a mayor. It should have caused us to analyze why so many people did not leave despite a manidotry evacuation. Instead many Black groups are yelling racism when the majority of the people living in hard hit areas were poor Blacks. So therefore they were the most affected. The poor lived in areas that were hardest hit because those areas are the cheapest to live in. In New Orleans Blacks make up a disproportinate number of the poor and an even larger disproportionate share of them decided to ride out the hurricane. How this is racism I am still trying to figure out. Nobody asked them much less forced them to stay. All races got the same neglect when it came to Federal aid. It was a beuacratical snafu not a concious choice on anybodies part. \n\nIn the case of Niceraga, after one particulerly devastating hurricane, the nation saw it's economy just about wiped out. This caused a huge wave of people moving elsewhere to work as well as taking a really heavy toll on the poor of that nation. \n\nIn the case of the summer of 04 and 05 in the US. It may completely redefine how somebody gets homeowner's insurance and may depopulate the Gulf coast for a time while new hurricane proof housing is built. If 06 is just as active, a very likely prospect. You will see another major American city wiped out. The nation as a whole and insurance carriers are going to want out of hurricane prone areas. \n\nIn Burma whole areas were wiped out by a particulerly nasty cyclone. Wbole subetnic groups basically disapeered as entire areas were destroyed. \n\nEven a relitively peaceful storm like Alisson which hit Houston then traveled accross the nation has caused noticable impacts. In the case of Allision it showed just how vulnerable the Houston/Galveston area was to flooding. It has prompted numerous projects to provide better drainage and debates about future development and watershed loss. It might result in a much more ecologically friendly Houston in the long term. It also might save millions of lives if a big storm comes ashore. Beyond Texas Allison caused flooding in several other states and showed flaws in our warning systems and our perception of storms being dangerous primarily because of wind speed. It may even eventually add a precipitation scale to the wind speed scale when it comes to measuring a tropical cyclone. \n\nThe primary inpacts are damage from a storm. Relivence to future inhabitation of that area. Economics in the region. Loss of life actual and potential. The secondary impacts are recovery. How well an area recovers can cause major shifts in politics, religion and fundemental ways of life.
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I can only speak for the white people that I know and from that I don't feel most white people hate blacks. If they did, blacks would not be in the positions many successful blacks find themselves in today. Does racism exist - absolutely, but that is a knife which surely cuts both ways.\n\nAgain this is from my perspective but I feel the difficulty many blacks have achieving in this country can be attributed to the following reasons:\n\n1) There is a small percentage of blacks, specifically young black males, which are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of crime in the country (particularly violent crime). I have heard but can not recall the sourse that attributes 75% of murder in the country to black youths. If that is correct, that would mean that roughly 3% of the population is comitting 75% of the murders. Reduce the murder rate attributed to young blacks in half and it is still an outrageous statistic.\n\n2) An extremely high percentage ( 60+ % ) rate of unwed black females giving birth into a system which will perpetuate their children into almost certain poverty and dependence on an ever increasingly resentful society.\n\n3) A significant portion of the black culture which appears to be incapable of fully integrating into a system which has proven time and time again that its rewards are directly proportional to the effort put into achieving within the system.\n\n4) An apparent broad based inability to accept that not all actions taken against blacks are because of skin color. Sandra McKinney is yet another recent prime example. Had a white person, congressional member or not, struck a white house cop in today's climate, that person would be under the jail, not appearing on 200 media outlets for a week playing the race card. \n\nI have to admit, it was refreshing that not a single member of the Congressional Black Caucus participated in her defense in any manner.\n\n5) Hold on to your hat for this one - I feel the single biggest reason blacks aren't as succuessful as everyone would want them to be is an inabilty to move forward despite the tragedy of slavery. \n\nThere absolutely has to come a time when that era in their history is remembered but not used as a crutch or devisive tool as it clearly still is today. \n\nThere IS NOT another single society on the planet that has not taken slaves, or conversely, has not been taken as slaves primarily as a result of war. It does not make slavery right.  It just makes it attributable to being a fact of history like the 1,000's of other atrocities committed by people upon one another. It makes slavery a fact of history experienced by every single race, society, culture, and country that ever existed prior to 1900.\n\nMy ancestory is Irish. I will not get into greta detail about the well documented torturous behavior the people living on what is now as Ireland have endured since seemingly the beginning of mankind. \n\nDo I fault, the Scandinavians, the Romans, the British. Each of these groups have taken slaves, ruthlessly murdered men, women and children and looted everything of value they could manage to carry and some they couldn't like the land itself. These are all well documented facts. But most importantly to me is that they are facts which did not happen to me, my parents, or grandparents just as no black person living today can claim. \n\nI accept this is how people of different origins treated each other during that period in history. Nothing more, nothing less. Just actions in the context of world history.\n\nThere must be some point in time when blacks living in the US accept their history in a similar fashion or they will never fully allow themselves to intergrate into the society. \n\nPick your magic number. Whether its 150 years, 500 years, or 5,000 years, it will disappear into history as all other horriffic tragedies have.  Only they can decide when it disappears in their history. \n\nJust as a point of reference, between 1841 and
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I was in New Orleans the day before Hurricane Katrina hit. When we were evacuating the city we passed by very poor neighborhoods. Most of the people living in those neighborhoods were African American. They were sitting on the porches waving to us. I asked my boyfriend why they weren't leaving and he said they didn't have enough money for gas, food, hotel etc.. I don't think its the entire black race that feels this way about it. Just those in New Orleans who did not have enough money to evacuate.
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I read all these responses and I'm stunned.\nPerhaps the problem is ... I'm not a Liberal.\nI am a student of history, however ... and GWB could not possibly be compared to Hitler.  To do so actually lessens and trivializes the evil that was Hitler.  I understand that some people hate GWB ... that's their prerogative ... I understand the arguments and the passion behind those opinions ... but comparing GWB to Hitler and actually BELIEVING Hitler would be a better "choice" only shows that some peoples' opinions are not based on knowledge and reason but, instead, on words they believe have shock value and effect ... much like Hitlers Ministery of Propaganda.  Until now, I never made the connection ... I guess Hitler was Liberal and this would explain the predominance of the answers to this question.  Hitler was a genocidal, drug-addicted madman who believed in occultism and the superiority of one "race" over others (whether or not they were German) and their birth-right to maim, rape, murder, torture and destroy a peoples because they claimed they were less than human.  Regardless of the arguments against GWB ... he has not lead a proganda campaign to brainwash adults and formed youth-groups of children to convince them that "all Muslims" are less than human and must all be destroyed.   Hate GWB if you choose ... but don't be so proud of your ignorance to compare him to Hitler ... shame on you.
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Act 10: 34 - 35 - ...."God is not partial for any man from any nation who WORKS righteousness is acceptable to Him"...\n\nIf that's the case, humans are certainly not imitating God or his Son.\n\nWhy does anyone face racism? Duh...it's just not going to go away when you have countries such as America constantly playing their sickening tone.\n\nPersonally, I have given up on all whites...as they are always topping the list of hate and bigotry and they use their positions to hurt people of color. I now use my position to hurt them and they don't like it, but they get angry and try to "pack up" with other bigots like them.\n\nRacism...blah..blah..blah...it... old and tired but the real sickening ones who constantly perpetuate it won't stop until Armageddon destroys them. That time is not far off. Until that time, I just exist with 'em but I don't try to be too social or friendly because they are a cursed race (leoprosy) and they cannot be trusted...like a diseased frog or something. \n\nBe careful and don't get too close because if you were a cursed race also, I guess you'd have a lot of evil and hate within you and you wouldn't behave yourself fairly. Whites think they run everything and thing is, they do not and this type of "we can" and you cannot illness keeps them in hot water constantly so they lie when they are confronted with their evil ways.\n\nMany times they don't even realize how evil they are but then when they do, they get mad and defensive and it turns into "I just don't care I'm white and I can do this" type sickness. That's when they really need to be eliminated by God, but God has his own time.\n\nAs far as interacting with them, I don't really care to...I don't associate with 'em much as they don't have goodness in their hearts and they always lie and cause major problems everywhere.\n\nThe world hates America mostly because of them and they group us all in the same bag. If they only knew how much many of us hate them for the horrific things they do on a daily basis and again they use their jobs to hurt people and laugh and have beers over their evil ways.\n\nWhat does God have to say about that? Well take a look:\n\nPsalms 37: 12 - The wicked one is plotting against the righteous one,\nAnd at him he is grinding his teeth.\n\n13 Jehovah himself will laugh at him,\nFor he certainly sees that his day will come.\n\nPsalms 37: 8 - Let anger alone and leave rage;\nDo not show yourself heated up only to do evil.\n\n9 For evildoers themselves will be cut off,\nBut those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth.\n\nNice ending for the good people soon, so just exist and don't get too close to them...they will backstab you every time.
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It's called a 'double standard'. White Americans have the strength, stamina, backbone, intelligence and determination to build a country out of wilderness. I, personally, consider the source. It seems to come from people who still can't find anything in their own heritage to be proud of, so they bash us and ours. They try to bring us down to their level. I don't let it bother me. They show their racism every time they spout such bigotry. Let it roll off and remain above it.
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I watched a special on the life of Richard Pryor last night (Because I love him!)\n\nbut I noticed how all of the comedians kept saying things about white people that aren't true...  They generalized and made public assumptions that we are all; rich, white, socially oblivious, nerds, geeks, and hold down and abuse blacks, that we own everything, control everything and keep every good thing from them intentionally...  \n\nI am white...and I have never once in my life done any of the above.  \n\nNot all of us are rich, not all of us are even pure white, not all of us are socially oblivious and not all of us are any one thing really...\n\nSo my point is stating this here is;  \n\n"Look what you get when the pot calls the kettle black."  \n\na bunch of people being ignorant and feeling that they are somehow justified in doing the very same thing that they hate in return,  to feel better about the fact that a narrow minded margin of white people first did it to them... YEARS AGO!\n\nYou can't expect people to forget and move on from a tragedy if you keep constantly reminding them of it...\n\nLet's move on now... If they can let go that is and start to live above the influence of the past?  I honestly believe that it is manipulative and incendiary...\n\nI for one... will not forget how an innocent white man just happened to wander into down town LA during a riot and was almost beaten to death by 6 men with a brick for NOTHING!  He was on his way to WORK!  \n\nThat... is what comes of people not allowing the past to be the past and let it go!  RIOTS and hatred for those who are innocent... but guilty because they are the same color...
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Act 10: 34 - 35 - ...."God is not partial for any man from any nation who WORKS righteousness is acceptable to Him"...\n\nIf that's the case, humans are certainly not imitating God or his Son.\n\nWhy does anyone face racism? Duh...it's just not going to go away when you have countries such as America constantly playing their sickening tone.\n\nPersonally, I have given up on all whites...as they are always topping the list of hate and bigotry and they use their positions to hurt people of color. I now use my position to hurt them and they don't like it, but they get angry and try to "pack up" with other bigots like them.\n\nRacism...blah..blah..blah...it... old and tired but the real sickening ones who constantly perpetuate it won't stop until Armageddon destroys them. That time is not far off. Until that time, I just exist with 'em but I don't try to be too social or friendly because they are a cursed race (leoprosy) and they cannot be trusted...like a diseased frog or something. \n\nBe careful and don't get too close because if you were a cursed race also, I guess you'd have a lot of evil and hate within you and you wouldn't behave yourself fairly. Whites think they run everything and thing is, they do not and this type of "we can" and you cannot illness keeps them in hot water constantly so they lie when they are confronted with their evil ways.\n\nMany times they don't even realize how evil they are but then when they do, they get mad and defensive and it turns into "I just don't care I'm white and I can do this" type sickness. That's when they really need to be eliminated by God, but God has his own time.\n\nAs far as interacting with them, I don't really care to...I don't associate with 'em much as they don't have goodness in their hearts and they always lie and cause major problems everywhere.\n\nThe world hates America mostly because of them and they group us all in the same bag. If they only knew how much many of us hate them for the horrific things they do on a daily basis and again they use their jobs to hurt people and laugh and have beers over their evil ways.\n\nWhat does God have to say about that? Well take a look:\n\nPsalms 37: 12 - The wicked one is plotting against the righteous one,\nAnd at him he is grinding his teeth.\n\n13 Jehovah himself will laugh at him,\nFor he certainly sees that his day will come.\n\nPsalms 37: 8 - Let anger alone and leave rage;\nDo not show yourself heated up only to do evil.\n\n 9 For evildoers themselves will be cut off,\nBut those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth.\n\nNice ending for the good people soon, so just exist and don't get too close to them...they will backstab you every time.
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I really think the indains should have more of an issue with white people than the blacks should. But it really wasn't that long ago that we whites where hanging blacks... and really that takes awhile to just get over it.   I just wonder how white people would feel if thier grandparents and great grandparents where taken out and hung because they wanted to vote or ride in the front of the bus.   We as whites and blacks need to remember the history behide this issue so that it will never repeat itself again.    As far as racism goes there will always be racism due to the fact that there will be always someone with feelings of being better than someone else.  It needs to be forgiven but never forgotten...and I myself am very sorry for what my past white americans done to the black americans.  I just wished that white americans would take care of their own like the black americans take care of theirs but then again we have never been taken out of our beds to hang because of our color.. while our children watched.   It really wasn't that long ago.
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f_chuck...\n My rights are being violated, as a New Orleans citizen.\nYour rights as an American period!\nwhat color they are wearing doesn’t mater ,what matters is the fact that we are staring down the barrel of automatic rifles, illegal stops and searches, and the overall military presence in the city.\n I listen to my police scanner, I hear what they are doing and saying, I travel all over the greater New Orleans area, everyday.\n \n and pam....you should Google a little before you comment!\nthis is not the first place the National guard has done this, Knoxville, New Mexico, all over. \n \nA few months ago, during Katrina (when the police ran like sissies) maybe their presence was a little more understood, overboard considering the rescue crews but somewhat understood.\n\nSo the same guns that protect our boarder, are the same guns pointed at our kids in New Orleans...\n\nAs far as the Mayor goes, I kinda agree as most politicians are just a pawn in the over all bigger, more sinister plan. He does still make decisions that affect me directly.\n\nJust to answer the question you’re asking now! No, I’m not a criminal, I’m a white female law abiding citizen that wouldn’t violate a single law. It's not just the stereo types being affected by the new police state, it's anyone with chrome wheels, on the streets after dark, anyone that stands out in any way.\n\n I guess if 60% of New Orleans wasn’t still destroyed almost a year later, more New Orleans citizens would have the internet and ability to comment on this sad situation.
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Ok if no one else will be honest I will.  But, there are too many people to hate to name just one.  \nChild abusers, wife beaters, drunk drivers, criminals, drug users, drivers who talk on the cell phone while driving, smokers, actors and actresses who belive what they read in People, The French, judges who attempt to legislate from the bench, Osama Bin Laden and most of his friends, athletes who cheat with steroids, bullies, reporters who give more biased opinion than reporting on the news, New Orleans and Louisiana governments who have the nerve to blame the Federal Government for the ravages of Hurricane Katrina - when the Hurricane actually struck the coast of Mississippi and the most severe damage to New Orleans was caused by Lake Ponchatrain (sp) spilling its banks causing sodden and stressed levees to collapse which everyone for decades knew was going to happen, executives at NBC, the yankees, illegal aliens, people who think they are great just because they are tall,  people who inherit their wealth and think  they deserve what and who they are, Physicians who don't give their patients respect, Lawyers, Car salesmen, door to door salesmen (sorry girl scouts this includes you and your cookies),  dishonest car mechanics, Politicians, I could go on but I think I am running out of space.  Peace!!!