white evacuees/black refugees

[datasuspect]

Family members gather at a relatives home as they wait out the storm in Wildwood, Mo. Pictured (from left) are Meredith Larriviere, 7, Meg Casler, Chelsea Slattery, 9, Emma Casler, 7, John DiMaggio, Julia Slattery, 3. The famililes evacuated from Louisiana Saturday morning, and the evacuation call was issued later that evening.
(AP photo/St.Louis Post-Dispatch by Dawn Majors)
Posted August 31, 2005







Leeland Martin, left, pulls his brother, Milton, to the Louisiana Superdome on a inflatable mattress Tuesday, in New Orleans.
(AP photo/The Lafayette Daily by John Rowland)
Posted August 31, 2005

[expatriot]

1. Havenots, meet the Haves. Oh wait, they don't care to meet you.

Two fucking very telling pictures.

[datasuspect]

2. 10-4

yep

[The Jacobin]

6. I'm sure the second family aould feel MUCH better

if those white folks were right along with them.

[expatriot]

9. If the suburban white families were stuck inside the Hell Bowl, then Bush

would have actually cared. So yes, the second family would feel much better as a matter of fact.

[datasuspect]

10. i'm sure the second family

would feel much better if they could muster up shit eating grins while in the warm, dry embraces of their kinfolk.

HOW DARE THEY BE POOR???

what were they thinking?

[bahrbearian]

3. "While ya know they choose to stay behind to Loot."

I heard that one today. Help me, my heads exploding.

[datasuspect]

4. well, they're just black people anyway

they don't count, right?

SARCASM

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Please tell me you are joking!

Someone actually said that to you?! If they did, then I know why your head is exploding...you must be allergic to bullshit!

How did you manage to restrain yourself?!

[phish420]

16. THEY ARE SAYING THIS ON FOX!

OMG! They are actually saying that a 'criminal element' purposly stayed behind so that they could loot!! LOL!!!

[expatriot]

5. God bless Leeland Martin and his brother. That picture sings America.

It sings and screams America. I am so full of love and rage at the same fucking time.

[datasuspect]

8. those dudes

man, god bless everyone stuck there.

[Catherine Vincent]

11. Well in all fairness, there are a lot of black familes that left

to be with other family members in Texas and other parts of Louisiana. They're just not showing them.

[datasuspect]

12. in all fairness

if this culture gave two shits about the poor, whatever level of goverment would have commandeered and mobilized all manner of ground transportation to move people 50 to 100 miles out of harm's way.

ever try to leave town with no money?

[phish420]

14. amen. nt

[phish420]

13. its not white/black....

Its rich/poor, (which the rich happen to be mostly white and the poor mostly black) - the point is, the 'poor' could not evacuate. Cant get too far without a car or money to get you somewhere. Were they supposed to gather cardboard boxes and make wings and fly out??

[datasuspect]

17. yep

[wanpete]

15. the front page of the Atlanta Journal has a picture of law enforcement

controlling REFUGEES. Of course, everyone in the picture other than the police was black. I am highly offended by this term. Why is it that they are referred to as refugees. These are our american brothers and sisters for Christ's sake. We have now reduced ourselves to calling our own refugees. This is becoming uglier by the second...