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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Real American on August 30, 2005, 06:00:21 PM
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Did anyone see this shit on the news??? Is there anything more disgusting than looting and robbing stores during a national emergency like this? Hundreds of people are dying and these pieces of shit are going around stealing electronics and other goods. And the cops have to go around protecting stores now when they could be out helping save lives.
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The people that are doing this are low lifes, that's for sure.
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STFU Crack**Walker and Knucklehead I've only seen footage of Whites/Blacks/Latinos looting groceries stores which I have no problem with.
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i woulda steal some electronics, make some paper outta these and buy food. ;D
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In 2001, FEMA ranked a major hurricane strike on New Orleans as “among the three likeliest, most castastrophic disasters facing this country.” Bush slashed hurricane funding anyway.
President Bush said early in the week, “I want to thank all the folks at the federal level and the state level and the local level who have taken this storm seriously.”
Well, if he wanted to take this all seriously he wouldn't have cut their funding... slash funds that would help New Orleans prepare for a major hurricane.
From the 6/6/05 New Orleans CityBusiness:
In fiscal year 2006, the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bracing for a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding…The cuts mean major hurricane and flood protection projects will not be awarded to local engineering firms. Also, a study to determine ways to protect the region from a Category 5 hurricane has been shelved for now.
Landrieu said the Bush administration is not making Corps of Engineers funding a priority. “I think it’s extremely shortsighted,” Landrieu said. “When the Corps of Engineers’ budget is cut, Louisiana bleeds. These projects are literally life-and-death projects to the people of south Louisiana.”
But to answer your question... yes there are far more disgusting things... your racist ass being one of 'em. Real Americans are not bigots, which is why you're no American, you're from the Ukraine... simple as that.
Killing thousands of innocent civilians because of bullshit lies is a lot worse than some people looting... of course black people are the only ones that would ever loot ::)
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man they all are jacking N.O up not only blacks you birdshit
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man they all are jacking N.O up not only blacks you birdshit
CWalker is Ukrainian. He still has to adapt to the American ideals. Once he realizes that us Americans won't accept racists and bigots like himself, he will move back to the Ukraine and join the Socialist party there.
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we all know he's racist and narrowminded but he still wont quit his ways which bring humanity to all time low fuck y is he still being allowed to post. People like CWalker give scums a bad name
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1. I am not Ukrainian, I am American.
2. I am not narrow minded
3. Stating facts doesn't make you racist. I am not a racist because I would never discriminate against anyone because of the color of their skin.
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hating ppl for looting isnt racist, he just always pulls the race card which ppl dislike.
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1. You are Ukrainian. It's in your blood. That's where the racism comes from.
2. The space between two sheets of paper glued together > your mind.
3. You are a racist. You have proven that time and time again... you're nothing more than a bigot, scoundrel and a racist piece of shit.
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hating ppl for looting isnt racist, he just always pulls the race card which ppl dislike.
Thank you. They just don't like the fact that I stated the obvious: that all the looters are black.
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STFU Crack**Walker and Knucklehead I've only seen footage of Whites/Blacks/Latinos looting groceries stores which I have no problem with.
The people that are doing this are low lifes, that's for sure.
I didn't mention anything about race.
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1. You are Ukrainian. It's in your blood. That's where the racism comes from.
How can I be Ukranian???? I wasn't born there, I have never even been there. I don't speak their language, I don't know anything about their culture. I am 100% Amercan you idiot.
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2. The space between two sheets of paper glued together > your mind.
LMAO
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1. You are Ukrainian. It's in your blood. That's where the racism comes from.
How can I be Ukranian???? I wasn't born there, I have never even been there. I don't speak their language, I don't know anything about their culture. I am 100% Amercan you idiot.
1. Your heritage = Ukrainian.
2. Your English isn't so great, so don't bring language into this.
3. Culture in America = Cultures of the rest of the world in a melting pot.
4. You're not American. True Americans aren't bigots, or are they? If real Americans are bigots/scoundrels/racists... then you're a true American... otherwise, you are just what your ancestors were... Ukrainian.
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1. You are Ukrainian. It's in your blood. That's where the racism comes from.
How can I be Ukranian???? I wasn't born there, I have never even been there. I don't speak their language, I don't know anything about their culture. I am 100% Amercan you idiot.
1. Your heritage = Ukrainian.
2. Your English isn't so great, so don't bring language into this.
3. Culture in America = Cultures of the rest of the world in a melting pot.
4. You're not American. True Americans aren't bigots, or are they? If real Americans are bigots/scoundrels/racists... then you're a true American... otherwise, you are just what your ancestors were... Ukrainian.
Youre an idiot. The culture of America isn't based upon the whole world. We are a WESTERN nation built upon WESTERN civiliization. Africa, Asian, indegenuous cultures are all inferior.
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Y the fukl u gotta say black u racist shit its not only blacks looting White black and latino and prolly more wtf up with u singling out one race?
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fuck it id jack some shit too its the mexican in me what can i say?
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Africa, Asian, indegenuous cultures are all inferior.
You're a true American.... all these other cultures are inferior... yet you can't even spell the word indigenous. You're no more American than the ESL kids at my school whose parents bought their ID cards at the park. Get out of my country, you Ukrainian Communist!
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You're a true American.... all these other cultures are inferior... yet you can't even spell the word indigenous. You're no more American than the ESL kids at my school whose parents bought their ID cards at the park. Get out of my country, you Ukrainian Communist!
Like it or not, you're American too.
I don't give a fuck where you came from, if you live here now, and you're a citizen, you are American. The end.
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You're a true American.... all these other cultures are inferior... yet you can't even spell the word indigenous. You're no more American than the ESL kids at my school whose parents bought their ID cards at the park. Get out of my country, you Ukrainian Communist!
Like it or not, you're American too.
I don't give a fuck where you came from, if you live here now, and you're a citizen, you are American. The end.
I never said I wasn't. I love this country and I have accepted the ideals laid out by our founding fathers... CWalker hasn't. He can't even spell yet. He still thinks anyone that isn't White is inferior. He belongs in 1940 Germany.
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You're a true American.... all these other cultures are inferior... yet you can't even spell the word indigenous. You're no more American than the ESL kids at my school whose parents bought their ID cards at the park. Get out of my country, you Ukrainian Communist!
Like it or not, you're American too.
I don't give a fuck where you came from, if you live here now, and you're a citizen, you are American. The end.
I never said I wasn't.
You said i wasn't.
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You aren't.
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fuck it id jack some shit too its the mexican in me what can i say?
LOL :D
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fuck it id jack some shit too its the mexican in me what can i say?
People might think you're Ukrainian, like CWalker.
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for real man, I'm sure it isn't just blacks...... but the people looting are scum for sure, ya don't do that in a time like this.....
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hating ppl for looting isnt racist, he just always pulls the race card which ppl dislike.
Thank you. They just don't like the fact that I stated the obvious: that all the looters are black.
Why make the extra effort if your not trying to aid a negative stereotype of the black population. I usually don't see you come on dubcc and refer to specific races in your posts. You don't write posts entitled "The Whites...."
Usually the only time a person makes the extra effort to attach a specific demographic to a negative act is when they are trying to denigrate that demographic. For example, you might write "the liberals disrespect the troops " or "evangelicals.... "
Say what you will, its highly unlikely you didnt make the extra effort to single out "the blacks" with the intention of denigrating the black demographic. If that wasn't your intention then I dont know why you'd bother to title it as you did, since you could just as easily have titled it something like "looters trash new orleans"
Either way you're the second weirdest fuck I've encountered on this site (behind infinite). You two are like alter egos.
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Fuck you, and your sorry life first and foremost. Secondly, why is your username Cwalker 187? I don't think your typical "american" embraces that, what is C-walk from? oh yeah, a race that isn't yours, so why are you glorifying it? Bitch I feel sorry for your mother
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hating ppl for looting isnt racist, he just always pulls the race card which ppl dislike.
Thank you. They just don't like the fact that I stated the obvious: that all the looters are black.
Why make the extra effort if your not trying to aid a negative stereotype of the black population. I usually don't see you come on dubcc and refer to specific races in your posts. You don't write posts entitled "The Whites...."
Usually the only time a person makes the extra effort to attach a specific demographic to a negative act is when they are trying to denigrate that demographic. For example, you might write "the liberals disrespect the troops " or "evangelicals.... "
Say what you will, its highly unlikely you didnt make the extra effort to single out "the blacks" with the intention of denigrating the black demographic. If that wasn't your intention then I dont know why you'd bother to title it as you did, since you could just as easily have titled it something like "looters trash new orleans"
Either way you're the second weirdest fuck I've encountered on this site (behind infinite). You two are like alter egos.
I'm white but I agree, you don't know they are all blacks, and they probably aren't, and it's stupid to single out and say "The Blacks are looting"
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hating ppl for looting isnt racist, he just always pulls the race card which ppl dislike.
Read the title of the thread "The Blacks are looting down in New Orleans........" he's singling out one race . If that ain't racist I don't know what is.
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hating ppl for looting isnt racist, he just always pulls the race card which ppl dislike.
Read the title of the thread "The Blacks are looting down in New Orleans........" he's singling out one race . If that ain't racist I don't know what is.
thank you someone can actually read
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man its like San Andreas down there the latest thing they took up is carjackings
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I believe anyone who steals things beyond the basic needs are bad.
Why do people need video games when they don't have electricity? I find that funny though.
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Yall kids are the REAL Big Easy.
Your cousins were fucked by your uncles.
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1. You are Ukrainian. It's in your blood. That's where the racism comes from.
How can I be Ukranian???? I wasn't born there, I have never even been there. I don't speak their language, I don't know anything about their culture. I am 100% Amercan you idiot.
1. Your heritage = Ukrainian.
2. Your English isn't so great, so don't bring language into this.
3. Culture in America = Cultures of the rest of the world in a melting pot.
4. You're not American. True Americans aren't bigots, or are they? If real Americans are bigots/scoundrels/racists... then you're a true American... otherwise, you are just what your ancestors were... Ukrainian.
Youre an idiot. The culture of America isn't based upon the whole world. We are a WESTERN nation built upon WESTERN civiliization. Africa, Asian, indegenuous cultures are all inferior.
Ban this piece of shit right now, i can't believe this fuckin cockaroach is still postin
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1. You are Ukrainian. It's in your blood. That's where the racism comes from.
How can I be Ukranian???? I wasn't born there, I have never even been there. I don't speak their language, I don't know anything about their culture. I am 100% Amercan you idiot.
1. Your heritage = Ukrainian.
2. Your English isn't so great, so don't bring language into this.
3. Culture in America = Cultures of the rest of the world in a melting pot.
4. You're not American. True Americans aren't bigots, or are they? If real Americans are bigots/scoundrels/racists... then you're a true American... otherwise, you are just what your ancestors were... Ukrainian.
Youre an idiot. The culture of America isn't based upon the whole world. We are a WESTERN nation built upon WESTERN civiliization. Africa, Asian, indegenuous cultures are all inferior.
Asia is so inferior to us that they make most electronic devices we use ::)
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hating ppl for looting isnt racist, he just always pulls the race card which ppl dislike.
Read the title of the thread "The Blacks are looting down in New Orleans........" he's singling out one race . If that ain't racist I don't know what is.
I didnt say that singling out part wasnt racist. I just said hating on ppl for doing stuff like this isnt racist. And to the other clown, I can read, but you can't since my comment was 100% right, just because I dont insult C-Walker doesnt mean I don't know what's up.
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1. You are Ukrainian. It's in your blood. That's where the racism comes from.
How can I be Ukranian???? I wasn't born there, I have never even been there. I don't speak their language, I don't know anything about their culture. I am 100% Amercan you idiot.
1. Your heritage = Ukrainian.
2. Your English isn't so great, so don't bring language into this.
3. Culture in America = Cultures of the rest of the world in a melting pot.
4. You're not American. True Americans aren't bigots, or are they? If real Americans are bigots/scoundrels/racists... then you're a true American... otherwise, you are just what your ancestors were... Ukrainian.
Youre an idiot. The culture of America isn't based upon the whole world. We are a WESTERN nation built upon WESTERN civiliization. Africa, Asian, indegenuous cultures are all inferior.
lol wow. you actually said that? you're the exact opposite of infinite.
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Just saw the news; they showed 1 mexican getting arrested, and dozens and dozens of black people breaking into the stores and carrying shit off.
You shouldn't have posted this, Trauma. The idiots on this board will get more angry at you than the actual looters themselves. They are so brainwashed by political correctness that merely mentioning the race of the looters drives them insane. Stating facts like the looters are black or that western culture is superior to other cultures is a no no.
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1. You are Ukrainian. It's in your blood. That's where the racism comes from.
How can I be Ukranian???? I wasn't born there, I have never even been there. I don't speak their language, I don't know anything about their culture. I am 100% Amercan you idiot.
1. Your heritage = Ukrainian.
2. Your English isn't so great, so don't bring language into this.
3. Culture in America = Cultures of the rest of the world in a melting pot.
4. You're not American. True Americans aren't bigots, or are they? If real Americans are bigots/scoundrels/racists... then you're a true American... otherwise, you are just what your ancestors were... Ukrainian.
Youre an idiot. The culture of America isn't based upon the whole world. We are a WESTERN nation built upon WESTERN civiliization. Africa, Asian, indegenuous cultures are all inferior.
Ban this piece of shit right now, i can't believe this fuckin cockaroach is still postin
Ban me for what? Go away moron....
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STOP PRESS! they showed a white looter on UK tv :D
and she said.. the police said she could take what supplies she needed to survive!
however.. this was in a grocery store...
other than that they did show cops threatening people of colour comin outta footlocker with a gang of shit
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STOP PRESS! they showed a white looter on UK tv :D
and she said.. the police said she could take what supplies she needed to survive!
however.. this was in a grocery store...
other than that they did show cops threatening people of colour comin outta footlocker with a gang of shit
You racist piece of shit!!! Somebody ban Overseer NOW!
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STOP PRESS! they showed a white looter on UK tv :D
and she said.. the police said she could take what supplies she needed to survive!
however.. this was in a grocery store...
The hell with her. Stealing is stealing. She knew a storm was coming and this could happen, she should have prepared in advance and purchased enough food for a while.
btw, I've seen a couple of reports about the looting and they've only showed black people.
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STOP PRESS! they showed a white looter on UK tv :D
and she said.. the police said she could take what supplies she needed to survive!
however.. this was in a grocery store...
other than that they did show cops threatening people of colour comin outta footlocker with a gang of shit
You racist piece of shit!!! Somebody ban Overseer NOW!
You said ALL the looters were black. Seer just stated that your statement was false. Your racist beliefs led you to only see what you want to see, and only focus on the looting of the non-whites. That's the difference here. If you want to live in my country, you better adapt and learn about our ideals... if you can't do that, go back to the Ukraine. :oi:
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I've been watching the news, and I've seen black looters as well as white looters....
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Fuck you, and your sorry life first and foremost. Secondly, why is your username Cwalker 187? I don't think your typical "american" embraces that, what is C-walk from? oh yeah, a race that isn't yours, so why are you glorifying it? Bitch I feel sorry for your mother
I've been watching the news, and I've seen black looters as well as white looters....
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CWALKeR really should change him name..... living in Whitesville, Ohio and all :laugh:
am I so wrong on that statement 8)
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CWALKeR really should change him name..... living in Whitesville, Ohio and all :laugh:
am I so wrong on that statement 8)
He loves rap music (heavily influenced by African culture), but he's afraid of blacks. LOL... probably just a bad childhood experience...
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CWalker is a clown. He loves rap music, I've seen his posts up in the porn section too, he comments on black chicks.
Thomas Jefferson wanna-be.
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CWalker is a clown. He loves rap music, I've seen his posts up in the porn section too, he comments on black chicks.
Thomas Jefferson wanna-be.
LMAO. Maybe that's it. He loves black girls, but knows that no black chick would ever get with his nerdy faggot ass. Poor chump.
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LMAO this fag isnt even from America why u got the American flag in ur sig, u'r from the ukraine and ur a close minded piece of shit we wouldnt want your worthless immigrant ass here. You despise the Mexicans so much yet to us Americans you're on the same level. Maybe you should re-evaluate your position in the world or just blow your brains out if u can afford a gun.
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The people that are doing this are low lifes, that's for sure.
Agreed.
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LMAO this fag isnt even from America why u got the American flag in ur sig, u'r from the ukraine and ur a close minded piece of shit we wouldnt want your worthless immigrant ass here. You despise the Mexicans so much yet to us Americans you're on the same level. Maybe you should re-evaluate your position in the world or just blow your brains out if u can afford a gun.
Wait.....he's from the Ukraine? Jesus H. Christ, I've heard it all now.
Let the fat lady sing.....preferably a black one because CWalker is a chocolate lover ;D
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Wait.....he's from the Ukraine? Jesus H. Christ, I've heard it all now.
Yup. CWalker said his dad was a Communist who fled the Ukraine because people opposing the Communists were looking to kill him... and they filed for political asylum here in the U.S. by twisting the story and claiming that the Communists were looking to kill him and that he was against the Communists.... so the kind U.S. government gave CWalker's dad permission to stay here in our beautiful country.
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^^^
What the fuck do you want to hear, blacks are genetically predisposed to be dumb criminals, there you go, you can sleep at night now fuckin prick
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I saw this again last night, as it got pretty heavy. I saw NO mexicans, 1 white skin-head looking dude talking to another white skin-head looking dude, and HUNDREDS of blacks looting and destroying storefronts. Stealing Shoes, mainly, and baskets and baskets full of clothes. Running around looking like G-Unit or the Ying Yang twins, clothes falling off their bodies, wife beaters on, etc. You know, trying to be stylish in the middle of a fucking flood. Makes me sick, they look like fucking animals.
OH, I get it! Bush caused the Hurricane. You are fucking pathetic. There's people dead over here and you see it as political.
That's what you said to someone else, yet you are just as fucking pathetic. You complain about one person making it "political", yet you sit there and talk about how black people "make you sick". You're fucking disgusting.
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Obviously you can't read, or you're having difficulty comprehending what is written. I never said that you made anything political. I said you accused someone else of making things political, and ignoring the disaster.... and then I added that you were doing the same thing (I know you have trouble, so let me specify that: same thing = ignoring the disaster, and focusing on some bullshit... in your case, the race of the looters). Do you get it now, cousin-fucker?
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Also; you're accusing me of being racist, but using the word political. Get a fucking dictionary. Learn what you're talking about before you step to someone with a fucking intellect.
LMAO @ the irony. I don't think I need to say anything about this, since it's pretty much self-explanatory, but I still wouldn't expect a dumbfuck like you to see what's wrong with that.
The correct word would've been: BY (not but).
Which leads us to "Get a fucking dictionary".... TAKE YOUR OWN ADVICE, DUMBFUCK.
"Someone with a fucking intellect"? THAT IS OBVIOUSLY NOT YOU. LOLL... if anything, you need to take your advice on this on as well, since you're the dumbfuck here, and I'm the one who exposed you to be the dumbfuck that you are.
Now please do yourself a favor, and hop off my dick... I'm not Mormon, and not one of your relatives.
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I'm not sure what the news down south is showing but here in Canada the news is showing that a large, very large, group of blacks are stranded with out aid. It's not looting, it's survival. I'm not sure what exactly is being stolen the most but my guess is food and drink. Anyone that doesn't understand the looting is an idiot. When there is no food or water being given to you and you need it to survive then you take it. It's as simple as that. As for why the vast majority of looters are black; my guess is the whites are being given aid or have evacuated.
I still for the life of me don't know why people we're even in the city to begin with. I have a friend who has relatives in New Orleans and they knew it was coming almost week before and got out of the range of the hurricane. There is no chance in hell I would have been in that city if I were a New Orleans resident.
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I'm not sure what the news down south is showing but here in Canada the news is showing that a large, very large, group of blacks are stranded with out aid. It's not looting, it's survival. I'm not sure what exactly is being stolen the most but my guess is food and drink. Anyone that doesn't understand the looting is an idiot. When there is no food or water being given to you and you need it to survive then you take it. It's as simple as that. As for why the vast majority of looters are black; my guess is the whites are being given aid or have evacuated.
I still for the life of me don't know why people we're even in the city to begin with. I have a friend who has relatives in New Orleans and they knew it was coming almost week before and got out of the range of the hurricane. There is no chance in hell I would have been in that city if I were a New Orleans resident.
exactly dude, and for the assholes here that don't understand why the looters are black... the pricks like Trauma or CWalker that want to continually denigrate black people. the reason they are all black assholes is cuz most people living there are black. you're not gonna see white people looting, their aren't hardly any fuckin whites down there.
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I'm not sure what the news down south is showing but here in Canada the news is showing that a large, very large, group of blacks are stranded with out aid. It's not looting, it's survival. I'm not sure what exactly is being stolen the most but my guess is food and drink. Anyone that doesn't understand the looting is an idiot. When there is no food or water being given to you and you need it to survive then you take it. It's as simple as that. As for why the vast majority of looters are black; my guess is the whites are being given aid or have evacuated.
I still for the life of me don't know why people we're even in the city to begin with. I have a friend who has relatives in New Orleans and they knew it was coming almost week before and got out of the range of the hurricane. There is no chance in hell I would have been in that city if I were a New Orleans resident.
I know, the city is like 70% black. The 28% whites probably consist mostly of the well to do, and don't need aid.
exactly dude, and for the assholes here that don't understand why the looters are black... the pricks like Trauma or CWalker that want to continually denigrate black people. the reason they are all black assholes is cuz most people living there are black. you're not gonna see white people looting, their aren't hardly any fuckin whites down there.
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check out my signature. The media is fucking disgusting
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To them WHITE boys talkin shit.\
1. New Orleans population is MOSTLY Black, so MOST of the looter will be Black.
2. If New Orleans was White, most looter would be White.
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To them WHITE boys talkin shit.\
1. New Orleans population is MOSTLY Black, so MOST of the looter will be Black.
2. If New Orleans was White, most looter would be White.
and if New Orleans was mostly white the help wouldve came 10 times quicker too >:(
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i love how all these racists white pricks are being exposed one by one....
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I'm not sure what the news down south is showing but here in Canada the news is showing that a large, very large, group of blacks are stranded with out aid. It's not looting, it's survival. I'm not sure what exactly is being stolen the most but my guess is food and drink. Anyone that doesn't understand the looting is an idiot. When there is no food or water being given to you and you need it to survive then you take it. It's as simple as that. As for why the vast majority of looters are black; my guess is the whites are being given aid or have evacuated.
I still for the life of me don't know why people we're even in the city to begin with. I have a friend who has relatives in New Orleans and they knew it was coming almost week before and got out of the range of the hurricane. There is no chance in hell I would have been in that city if I were a New Orleans resident.
After the tsnumai hit in Asia, were the people over there looting, shooting rescuers, raping women, etc the way they are doing in New Orleans?
exactly dude, and for the assholes here that don't understand why the looters are black... the pricks like Trauma or CWalker that want to continually denigrate black people. the reason they are all black assholes is cuz most people living there are black. you're not gonna see white people looting, their aren't hardly any fuckin whites down there.
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I'm not sure what the news down south is showing but here in Canada the news is showing that a large, very large, group of blacks are stranded with out aid. It's not looting, it's survival. I'm not sure what exactly is being stolen the most but my guess is food and drink. Anyone that doesn't understand the looting is an idiot. When there is no food or water being given to you and you need it to survive then you take it. It's as simple as that. As for why the vast majority of looters are black; my guess is the whites are being given aid or have evacuated.
I still for the life of me don't know why people we're even in the city to begin with. I have a friend who has relatives in New Orleans and they knew it was coming almost week before and got out of the range of the hurricane. There is no chance in hell I would have been in that city if I were a New Orleans resident.
After the tsnumai hit in Asia, were the people over there looting, shooting rescuers, raping women, etc the way they are doing in New Orleans?
exactly dude, and for the assholes here that don't understand why the looters are black... the pricks like Trauma or CWalker that want to continually denigrate black people. the reason they are all black assholes is cuz most people living there are black. you're not gonna see white people looting, their aren't hardly any fuckin whites down there.
You are so right, and you do research. I wish I were more like you.
You see maybe your US news didn't bother reporting anything more than the Tsunami happening but the rest of the world saw everything. The difference is your media focuses on black looting instead of goverment incompetence.
Police dispatched to stop post-tsunami looting in Thailand; Malaysia postpones mass deportation of illegals
Bernard Hibbitts at 10:42 AM ET
[JURIST] Authorities in Thailand have dispatched hundreds of additional police to coastal provinces hardest hit by Sunday's tsunami in an effort to stem an apparent tide of looting. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has issued stern warnings to would-be looters, and several arrests have already been made. Well-off Western tourists killed and otherwise affected by the disaster - now said to have killed over 75,000 people, including some 2000 in Thailand - left behind many personal belongings, and hotels and resorts where they stayed are largely unoccupied at this point. AFP has more. In other law-related news from the Asian tidal wave disaster, Malaysian authorities announced Wednesday that they have agreed to a request by the Indonesian government to extend by one month an amnesty period for foreign workers illegally working in Malaysia, postponing a mass deportation that was originally scheduled after January 1. The Indonesian authorities had feared that deportations would only deepen the humanitarian crisis brought on by the deaths of over 45,000 Indonesians in the tidal wave that originated off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. There are about a million illegals working in Malaysia at the present time, most of them Indonesian. Some 220,000 have left since the amnesty period began at the end of October. AFP has more.
Many national and international relief agencies are collecting donations for relief of the tsunami victims. USAID, the US government's foreign aid arm, has posted this list. ReliefWeb, a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, is tracking tsunami-related news here. Wikipedia provides a continually-updated synopsis of events.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2004_12_29_indexarch.php
Read up some more and you'll find that there was looting in every country hit by the tsunami. Why? Because people need to survive.
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Some people just dont fuckin understand, if you just LOST EVERYTHING you would be looting too, its survival, you wouldnt have the same mindset if you were in that situation then now while your comfortably inside your home with a roof over your head... ::)
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yea i agree with these last couple posts. i don't want to get into this in depth, but this allhiphop editorial nicely summed up my feelings:
The Media, Katrina & African Americans
Morenike Efuntade
As journalists, the number one dictum is to be unbiased, objective and accurate. It is with a heavy heart that I watch TV as the nation is in turmoil as a result of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. What is becoming increasingly frustrating and infuriating is the biased coverage that news organizations, including the Associated Presss (AP) are presenting to the world. It is irresponsible and incorrigible to characterize the behavior of people desperately trying to survive in unimaginable circumstances to be labeled as "looters." If you have a photograph or footage of people with TV's on their backs crossing through neck high water, then it is fair to call them looters. But to say that people with bags of food, water or clothes are looters is ridiculous. It seems to me that nuances and word choices are being used to characterize an entire race. Additionally it seems that once again, black people who are the majority of the Americans suffering in New Orleans are automatically being characterized as criminals and thugs. Yes, there are a small percentage of people who are misbehaving. But the majority of people down there stuck with no resources are law-abiding, family-oriented, hard-working Americans in a dire situation--with no help in sight.
Instead of focusing on looting, why not have use some courage and journalistic integrity and focus on your journalistic duty--which is investigating and reporting the real story--the American government has failed it's citizens. Why? Is it because the majority of the people are of low-income and of color? Is there a feeling somewhere deep in the subconcious of the powers that be, that because of this, their lives are worth less? Why after four days hasn't more transportation from all over the country been sent to evacuate these citizens? To feed them? To save them? Why are people only being sent to Houston when there are 49 other states and millions of people willing to physically help? Why won't they let private citizens in to help if they're not going to?
By tomorrow--I fear that thousands of people will be dead of hunger and dehydration. Then America will truly have a riot on their hands. Why not use your power as media to initiate change instead of denigrating a people that are already down? (Think Woodward & Bernstein) You can help change things before it's too late.
I'm tired of this--and so are the American people. We deserve answers, we deserve journalists that fairly cover our community instead of constantly labeling them. In the 1970s, my mother was at the AP as a reporter and was discriminated against and vilified because she was black. She sued the AP and won--opening the door for intern and editorial programs specifically for minorities and women! As a trained journalist I too have experienced bias in the newsroom--the double standard that black journalists can't cover objectively because we are biased, or simply that we're not cut out to be journalists. And most of you guys think you're liberals--but the reality is that even in 2005 the same bias continue to frame your work. It is simply disgusting. Don't pretend to be an objective and unbiased news providing organization if you can't really achieve that.
MSNBC seems to be the only news organization that is covering this from an honest point of view--from a human point of view. This is not about race, except for the human race, and it is heartbreaking, disappointing and utterly disheartening to think that this is how America treats its own citizens. It is not about why people didn't leave--at this point it's about how do we get them out. That should be the number one priority of the government and THEN they can focus on the pipelines and the flooding.
So now I say, if there was anytime to be SUBJECTIVE and emotional as reporters--the time is now. You should be angry as U.S. citizens that our country and our leaders--who have put so much money into the military and into protecting America and the world is behaving like the Keystone cops, unable to properly organize the rescue of thousands of people in their own country. This is the essence of what Homeland security should be--and yet you tip toe around the issues when this comes up. If you don't do your jobs, the American people are going to. We are going to march and protest until somebody saves those people. Even if we have to march in front of the White House or down to New Orleans ourselves.
I implore you to skip the melodrama and the hype, to put aside whatever prejudices you may have--to even acknowledge that you may be slanting stories because of bias you may not even be aware you have-- and report the real story. Take these officials to task, don't let them off the hook in the interviews until you have real answers about a plan of action---make them accountable, and use your power to help evoke immediate change.
This could happen to any of us, put yourselves in the survivor's shoes--you wouldn't want to be in them, and they shouldn't be in that situation now.
Signed sincerely,
Morenike Efuntade
An Activist and concerned & pissed off U.S. citizen
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^ That's a dope article.
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hating ppl for looting isnt racist, he just always pulls the race card which ppl dislike.
Thank you. They just don't like the fact that I stated the obvious: that all the looters are black.
youre a fuckin idiot. From the few little clips on the news youve seen....you assume. This is why the rest of the world thinks we're completely ignorant in America. In case you havent been watching, about 90% of the people on the tv screens have been black...looting, or not. Almost all the people stuck outside the convention center...black. Most of the people theyve shown being rescued from the roofs of their houses...black. In a dissaster like this, there is bound to be looting. When everyone you see on the screen is black...who else is going to be looting? lol. If the whole screen was white...youd see white people looting. If you were stuck out there with your children. You had no food, no water, only the clothes on your back, with no real end in sight and your children were starving...would u take food from a grocery store, or just let your children die?
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It takes a really simple minded person to not understand why only the black are looting. This thread is just comedy.
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fuck it id jack some shit too its the mexican in me what can i say?
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I'm white as my buttochs...
And i would rob the fuck outta those stores too!..
Fit for survival... But i'll give some to the people too tired to rob themselve's
2005 Robin Hood:p
The criminul angel lol