If you're black, you're a looter. If you're white, you found

SKINZ_DOMIN8 · Post by **SKINZ_DOMIN8** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 9:19 am

The truth obviously hurts. I don't see too many whites stealing 5 flat screen t.v.'s or 10 pairs of shoes. The truth hurts.

welch · Post by **welch** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 12:17 pm

The truth obviously hurts. I don't see too many whites stealing 5 flat screen t.v.'s or 10 pairs of shoes. The truth hurts.

Think a bit. Who lives in New Orleans? By percentage? In a disaster, who got out? Who was left behind when the city flooded? (Hint people with money had the resources to evacuate, temporarily, leaving the poor and helpless). For details, see the quote from Jim Wallis, of Sojourners, at this thread:

http://www.the-hogs.net/forum/viewtopic. ... 3&start=10

I have descriptions of what people went through this week, but all of us who are not morally / spiritually dead have read them, with crushing effect. I hope I don't have to repeat them.

Please donate to the relief...money or effort or skill.

tcwest10 · Post by **tcwest10** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:54 pm

NikiH wrote:The thing that kind of floors me about this whole situation is you know those companies especially the ones that are part of a bigger corparation are all going to write off the stuff these people are taking as a loss.

I wonder...you would think that they would if it were a simple matter of writing it off.
It seems that no one wants to give anything away unless the public is made aware of it beforehand.
Maybe they should just put their respective corporate logos on the water bottles. :roll:

crazyhorse1 · Post by **crazyhorse1** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 2:45 pm

SKINZ_DOMIN8 wrote:The truth obviously hurts. I don't see too many whites stealing 5 flat screen t.v.'s or 10 pairs of shoes. The truth hurts.

When white rich people loot, they do it through the federal government at a billion dollars a crack. The primarily gang, these days, is called the Republican Party.

Smithian · Post by **Smithian** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 11:17 pm

...You should win a Darwin.

You need to be removed from the gene pool.

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:36 pm

I guess Kanye agrees with you, Chris.

Kanye West said, not wrote:I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food.

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/13038.html

Chris Luva Luva · Post by **Chris Luva Luva** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:39 pm

Jake wrote:I guess Kanye agrees with you, Chris.

Kanye West said, not wrote:I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food.

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/13038.html

I've heard this talked about a lot lately. I kinda left this thread alone because when I posted it I wasn't even aware of the extent of the damage done to the region. I don't watch much TV, plus Im sleep during the day. I still feel that there were some issues with this whole ordeal but I feel that none of it really needs to be discussed until the lives of these people are safe.

I think there were some really "eff'ed" things happenin in this situation. I just haven't felt them worth discussing.

REDEEMEDSKIN · Post by **REDEEMEDSKIN** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:52 am

Jake wrote:I guess Kanye agrees with you, Chris.

Perhaps he stoppped by here one day, and read CLL's comments. :lol:

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 12:59 pm

If he did read them, then he didn't recite them very well.

Can anyone say "Stuttering Stanley"? :lol:

joebagadonuts · Post by **joebagadonuts** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:23 pm

cvillehog wrote:
joebagadonuts wrote:
cvillehog wrote:Maybe the people in the bottom picture found the bread just floating along, and in the top pictures, the people went into the stores?

it says '...after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store...'

plus, my mom always taught me not to eat bread i find floating along.

Yes, it says "from," not "in."

just found this.....

Chris Graythen, who took the AFP picture and wrote the caption, said "I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not 'looted' them in the definition of the word. The people were swimming in chest deep water, and there were other people in the water, both white and black. I looked for the best picture. there were a million items floating in the water - we were right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. it had no doors. the water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have floated away anyhow."

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Controversy ... s_captions