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• • 23 Oct 05
  • 7:38 am

  Re major major's thought experiment: Let's revise the assumptions and pretend that the underclass is white and not black. The blacks plan ahead and have the means evacuate themselves. They do so not by stealing (as they do in mm's experiment) but by behaving like responsible adults. Let's assume the whites left behind are there not because they have been robbed of everything by blacks but because they are have all the qualities that marks an underclass. No, they would not starve "righteously." They would behave as underclass people behave. They would act as New Orleans' black underclass did act, which …

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• • 23 Oct 05
  • 9:44 am

  GhostRabbit: Your comment (the first sentence) lacks substance. I have no response because there is nothing to respond to. Re your question (second sentence): rather than comment on the content of my argument you ask about my race and my regional and socio-economic background. Is my race relevant? I disapprove of racist language. "Nigger" is an offensive term and so is "redneck." I use neither. Major Major: Maybe there was another hurricane and another city named New Orleans. In the events I am familiar with there was very little self help by the members of the black underclass. There were tens …

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• • 23 Oct 05
  • 2:05 pm

  Anarcho-Sozi: You should take a lesson in reading comprehension. I did not say that "blacks [are] doing what they always do." In reference to the black underclass, I said that "There were tens of thousands of people doing what they always do: depending on the government to do everything. " There is a distinction. Perhaps your mind is not subtle enough to grasp it. I did not say "blacks' are any certain way. I did say that many thousands of underclass blacks in New Orleans are dependent on government support. You think one must be racist to state facts. As to …

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• • 23 Oct 05
  • 2:53 pm

  Sharing. Yes. What we saw was sharing. Some policemen shared a dealer's Caddies. A policewoman was caught by MSMBC sharing WalMart's shoes.

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• • 23 Oct 05
  • 3:02 pm

  One more thing: The accounts of the violence came thru the media. The panicky NO officials said things (10,000 dead floating in the streets!) and the media repeated what they were told. Now we are told over and over again that there was little violence and that the accounts were wildly exaggerated. Maybe. I wasn't there. But I did read about life in the Superdome in the Manchester England and Melbourne Australia newspapers. Tourists from these places were holed up in the Superdome along with the locals. Their story was not a pretty one. These tourists were under constant threat by …

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