to this president even when youre on CNN." - HRC 2007
Bush is "a president who only saw the people from the window of an airplane instead of down here on the ground." - BHO 2007
"The best way to help Louisianans affected by these terrible floods is to make sure they have the resources they need today. I am committed to visiting communities affected by these floods, at a time when the presence of a political campaign will not disrupt the response, to discuss how we can and will rebuild together." - HRC 2016 (statement during a weekend of 20 fundraisers and 1 campaign stop)
I know, Frank L - Trump is still a threat to you, me, the country, the entire world, and squirells too, etc. etc.
Stupid point, but nice reference.
I'm sure the Trumpster would be down here kissing old bags if he weren't trying to win votes. You know, like he helped out on 9/11, right?
Do you believe the accounts by the Aussies and Brits who sought refuge in the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina that detailed a barrage of racial threats and violence against them?
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BBC link below. One National Guardsman stayed back when the rest were ordered to leave and got the white travelers out of there as the Superdome devolved into "Lord of the Flies" because like the travelers, he figured they would be among the biggest targets given the threats already made at them.
Here's a hypothetical for you: let's say the Red River floods the Fargo/Moorhead area ( a real possibility), which I think has a combined population of about 200,000. 40,000 are crammed into the Fargodome. There is a smattering of blacks. What do you think the chances are that those blacks would be under threat of racial attacks among an overwhelmingly white population in the dome? And if there were racially motivated threats/attacks against blacks, to the point that the Guard had to evacuate blacks, do you think you would read about it later?
Here are some of the Superdome accounts:
1. Up to 30 British students huddled among the thousands in the Superdome were forced to set up a makeshift security cordon to fend off abusive locals.
Jamie Trout, 22, an economics student from Sunderland, kept a record of his terrifying ordeal. He wrote: "It was like something out of Lord of the Flies - one minute everything is calm and civil, the next it descends into chaos. A man has been arrested for raping a seven-year-old in the toilet, this place is hell. The smell is horrendous, there are toilets overflowing and people everywhere."
Jamie, who had been coaching football to disabled children as part of the Camp America scheme, said people were shouting racial abuse at the Britons because they were white.
2. An Australian newspaper reports on black crime against Australians in the Superdome motivated by racial differences.
Brisbane's John McNeil, 22, told his family he'd witnessed murders, rapes and stabbings, and feared he would be killed.
Mr McNeil's father, Peter, said his son was with about 60 other foreign tourists who had fled the Superdome.
"They couldn't stay another night, the situation was so bad," he said.
"People were just staring at them and making suggestions that they were going to kill them."
John's sister Susie said he saw shocking acts of violence amid fierce racial tension in the Superdome.
"It's turned into a black against white thing," she said. "My brother has witnessed murders, stabbings, rapes . . . it's like a Third World country."
3. "The young woman explained how the US military had to sneak her out of the stadium in secret at the end of her terrifying ordeal.
She said: 'The military got us out of the Superdome. They told us it was too unsafe to stay.
'They got us out in groups of 10, in secret really.
'When we were leaving, people were going 'Where are you going?' and giving us looks.
'But the military got us out, which we were all thankful for."
4. As the Australians left the Superdome, food and water were almost non-existent and the stiflingly hot arena was filled with 25,000 people and the stench of human waste. Gangs stalked the tourists and women were threatened with rape.
"Bud took control. He was calm and kept it together the whole time," Ms Cullington said.
Mr Hopes, 32, said: "That was the worst place in the universe. Ninety-eight per cent of the people around the world are good. In that place, 98 per cent of the people were bad.
"Everyone brought their drugs, they brought guns, they brought knives. Soldiers were shot."
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/4208792.stm
And not race. I assume you are not saying that there is something wrong with black people, even though that is easily read into your post. There is a big difference being a historically persecuted minority group and being the historically advantaged majority. If you can't understand that, then I don't know what to tell you.
I would suggest that, if thousands of people were crammed into a steaming hot, water-free place for days, surrounded by water, the bad elements in even your precious Fargo might just tend to take out frustrations on minorities. Your perception as a white majority member just might not match that of a black minority member. A crazy thought, I know.
Disasters bring out the best in good people, and the worst in bad people.
As to the details of your post, it is all basically nonsense. The initial reports of violence in the Superdome, we know now, were wildly exaggerated. It was chaos and hellish, but there were no murders or child rapes or whatever. Three people died - two elderly people and one suicide. There were no confirmed sexual assaults. It was all rumor.
These rumors are natural during chaos, I suppose, but they were given respectability by our utterly incompetent police chief, Eddie Compass, and Mayor, Ray Nagin, on Oprah. Both of those clowns were revealed as absolutely unprepared, in every way, for the disaster. People panicked....but most of the violence was mythological.
Of course there were bad apples at the Superdome, since they were generally the poorest of the poor. But the people there were not all black. And of course foreigners felt scared. But they were in no actual danger, we now know.
Link: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/08/hurricane_katrina_10_years_later_the_myths_that_persist_debunked.html
You are unfortunately one of those people unwilling to engage in real discussions about it and instead retreat to non-concepts and non-words to avoid confronting not merely perceptions, but real data. Why do so many East Asians come here and thrive, having little when they arrive, outperforming Euro-Americans?
It's fascinating to watch leftist hypocrisy at work with regards to sexual assaults. Out of one sides of their mouths, they will speak of all the unreported rapes and molestations that occur. They will speak of empowering victims to come forward. Then they make statements like you make here, implying that since no one came forward to reports any rapes, they must not have occurred. Then they support a woman who actively tarred women who came forward with credible allegations against her husband. Then they come up with more non-words to explain away migrant rapes in European cities.
So, am I to understand that "institutional racism" (the most glorious of those non-concepts) explains why one population or one culture engages in exponentially more acts of violence? How does that work, precisely?
What if there is a genetic predisposition for impulsiveness and what if members of particular races who have this predisposition are reproducing at higher rates than other races? Talk of IQ distribution across racial groups is taboo. Can we discuss this other point or is that also taboo? Another fascinating point we all recognize is that when a woman or couple seeks to use a sperm donor to have children, they always are quite careful in choosing donors who lack a violent history, have a higher IQ and so forth. We all recognize that there is some genetic component to this. Yet when we have discussions about it in this context, labels and non-words are employed to silence any further discussion.
Poor people, poor parenting and poor schools, it's as simple as that in my opinion. Bad people are a function of their environment and upbringing far more often than through genetics.
I can't imagine a bunch of moozies from Kenya liking the Camp Randall experience,
How many women have reported him for sexual assault? To believe him each and every one is a bald faced liar. Yet the leftist feminists refuse to say a word about a serial assaulter of women who will soon be back in the WH. In fact many impugn the victims, including the Cankle. Carvill's famous line about dragging a hundred dollar bill through a trailor park comes to mind. Hillary refuses to answer questions about him while preaching about a war on women. It's disgusting.
I don't really know how to respond to all that. The violence in the Superdome was grossly exaggerated. There were no reported sexual assaults. That does not mean that there were none, only that visions of "lord of the flies" were inaccurate. Just facts. Or maybe non-concepts. Or whatever.
If you want to believe that there is no institutional racism (a concept that wearies me a good deal, but I don't deny it completely), like so many bubble-living white people, then go right ahead. And if you want to believe that some races have a "genetic predisposition for impulsiveness" (childish blacks!), then go right ahead. Knock yourself out.
I guess I will just continue to use non-words and non-concepts, whatever the hell that means.