Where are all of the
Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa
and helping the folks affected by the floods?
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From: James W. von Brunn
From: squest@questlabs.orgI live here in Iowa, and to tell you the truth, I never
actually
thought about comparing _our_ situation to the events of
Katrina. The
floods got me too, I have about 4 inches of disgusting
organic black
MUCK on the floor of my garden shed. Otherwise
everything else is OK.
My shed is full of years of collected junk, so
I haven't yet tried
shoveling the muck out. The floor is beginning to
rot, and fungus
abounds. However you made a good point, the flooding
here was only for
a few days, however in Cedar Rapids, it was every
_bit_ as bad as New
Orleans -- only one small difference.
Unlike New Orleans, which (was)
almost exclusively BLACK, Cedar Rapids
is almost exclusively WHITE!
Unlike the Katrina disaster,
the Whites in Cedar Rapids didn't
loot, in fact, they didn't _ask_ for
anything at all -- they all just
pitched in and did what White people
do (helped one another) and got
through it without bitching and
complaining, no gunshots were fired at
rescue helicopters which the
White people didn't get (nor want or need).
Unlike Blacks,
White people just do what they must to survive,
and unlike Blacks,
White people don't _need_ assistance _to_ survive!
If you
think back to Katrina, you'll note that the Whites there
were _never_
part of the problem, only Blacks were the exclusive source
of _all_
the trouble. Whites did what was right, they packed up and got
out
when the government warned that the storm was approaching. They did
what was right, they used their own money to obtain temporary housing
in
hotel rooms, well away from the flood plains. Even before the
hurricane
made landfall, Whites were getting notifications on their
cell phones
from the alarm companies, that their homes were being
broken into. It
quickly became obvious to us, why _most_ of the Blacks
stayed behind.
Just something for you all to think about as you
prepare to vote
for a Black president. Should Osama win the election,
the word I'll use
most often to describe what you will be feeling is:
"buyers remorse".
Black people
= epic failure (no matter _where_ on earth you
look).
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