I'm not sure why I watch CNN. Today, however, I found the desire to check out another point of view on the Katrina disaster. What I saw was pathetic.
Evidently the truth of the story is that the relief mission was not undertaken soon enough. This was not reported as an opinion, but as a fact. The reporter on Lou Dobbs Tonight went on to describe and report on the unrest of those people left behind in New Orleans. Numerous black leaders and African American associations (the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP) are calling on the government and it's leaders to start treating the refugees of New Orleans like American citizens, insinuating (rather, it was the point of the whole story) that the reason black Americans in New Orleans are still there and that the relief mission 'did not happen soon enough' was because the people are black.
Lou Dobbs, in a very unCNN way, asked the reporter in the field why these African American organizations have not thought about the fact that the mayor, governmental structure, and police department of New Orleans are predominantly black, and should face the first wave of responsibility. The reporter replied that these organizations have not begun to 'point fingers.' Lou pointedly disagreed, indicated that in fact it is exactly what they are doing.
Ok, here's how it works. These people were ordered to leave the city before Katrina hit. Even if these people were unable to leave the city, they should have gone to the Superdome. Those who went there are now in Houston. The fact of the matter is that these people refused to leave their homes, refused to go to the Superdome, and now expect the government to get them out. If Katrina had hit New Orleans like was predicted, most of these people would have died in their homes, not been flooded out of them the next day.
The people of New Orleans have shown us the worst sides of human nature. Those who refused to evacuate are now complaining that the government hasn't rescued them. Others claim the reason they are still there is because they are black! Others still remained behind with the obvious intention of conquering the streets while the city was empty - shooting at police, relief workers, national guardsmen, and coast guard helicopters.
The truth about this situation is that the government and national guard possibly could have reacted faster. However, the fact that many New Orleans citizens have decided to hang out and wait to be saved, and others are running amuk shooting people, gives rise to the idea that a portion of this after-storm disaster is the fault of the citizens of New Orleans.
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Oh darlin. I'm too tired to argue with you, but you know my many disagreements.
Hey Radar, did you hear that civil rights leaders are irate because particular forms of media are portraying black people as eating corpses? Sounds like an Onion article to me. I don't know which is more ridiculous:
A) These activists actually think the public believes such accusations
B) The activists themselves actually believe it was a legitimate, racist media source
C) By speaking out against these claims, the civil rights leaders are actually assisting in the spreading of rumors.
Personally, I choose either (A) or (C) because the only reason any one heard about this 'serious media claim' is by activists trying to debunk the rumors, and certainly noone with a bit of logic would believe it. Haha, corpses? Rather than loot grocery stores or seek other forms of food they have resorted to consuming the diseased, bloated, stinking, flooded-then-sunbaked dead?! A little hard for me to swallow (no pun intended). All they accomplished was giving us a new running gag.
Kelly: "Man, Hicks has become a machine up the middle. It's taking 2 or 3 hits to take him down."
Sport: "He must have eaten plenty of corpse for breakfast."
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