Irony at it's worst

Now...just how stupid is this...

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White Foragers Report Threat Of Black Looters

NEW ORLEANS—Throughout the Gulf Coast, Caucasian suburbanites attempting to gather food and drink in the shattered wreckage of shopping districts have reported seeing African_Americans "looting snacks and beer from damaged businesses." "I was in the abandoned Wal-Mart gathering an air mattress so I could float out the potato chips, beef jerky, and Budweiser I'd managed to find," said white survivor Lars Wrightson, who had carefully selected foodstuffs whose salt and alcohol content provide protection against contamination. "Then I look up, and I see a whole family of [African-Americans] going straight for the booze. Hell, you could see they had already looted a fortune in diapers." Radio stations still in operation are advising store owners and white people in the affected areas to locate firearms in sporting-goods stores in order to protect themselves against marauding blacks looting gun shops.

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I can just hear the conversation: ' Hey, Billy Bob, let's go geta sum of them there guns and stuff sosa we can pertect erselves frem them looters. ' LOL! :D

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I think the media is being really unfair in their footage when you see someone looting in the news they are usually black and when you see people being given aid they are usually black even though both blacks and whites loot and are in need of aid. I think a reason that you see more blacks doing all that is because statistically they are the poorer ones in New Orleans with no way to get out of the hurricane... its pretty sad really but the media has been unfair.

Um...............have either of you ever been to NO? It's basically a big welfare city and making babies is the primary job in the projects. Babies they can't even really care for, and babies who definitely don't have college funds. Most are had for extra government cheddar. They needed those diapers.

You're going to see the NO police get back at the real looters when they make them leave their dwellings............When business owners are let back in to inspect their electronic stores you're going to hear real quick what "necessities" were borrowed.

People taking (not looting) staples, necessities, floatation devices, (a few) clean clothes and things for survival............all legal and I doubt we'll see prosecutions.

I saw plenty of thieves taking luxury items; think about the thousands of useless electronics that we didn't see stolen. Well.....................the PD is going to find all that **** stacked up in the houses in the ghettos. Typical..........real ghettos are universal and so are the people in them. ;)

It all comes down to how you were raised.

The Onion that's a great source! lol

When you're poor, anything of value can be a life-saver. You can steal some expensive TV, for example, and then trade it with someone else for food, clean water, medicines and whatever more. For poor people, expensive items are as good as cash. Too bad that NO apparantly shows that most poor people happen fall in the same ethnic group. Worse that many people think this is just normal...

There was a young chap (Scottish) who has been at the dome and had just landed back home.
He was being interviewed by the media and he was talking abou the bullying in the dome and how he had been subjected to racial abuse from the black refugees. He also talked about how some black people in the queues for water etc had been talking about getting guns and killing all the white people.

There were some better stories about how people had banded together to stay safe and look after each other but it seams to have been 'hell on earth' for those who were stuck there.

Hi Imitation,

I think the irony flew over your head this time...white guys ' looting ' bud, potato chips, beef jerky, and an air mattress...complaining about black guys ' looting ' beer and diapers.

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Funny how it's called looting for blacks but foraging for whites.

Eg ;)

The media is spinning it like whites take things because they 'have to' while blacks take things because they 'want to'. It's ridiculous, race should not even be an issue with a disaster like this.

Bud, chips, beef jerky, diapers, and an air mattress all sound like things one might need in a time like this.

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Originally posted here by Katja
When you're poor, anything of value can be a life-saver. You can steal some expensive TV, for example, and then trade it with someone else for food, clean water, medicines and whatever more. For poor people, expensive items are as good as cash. Too bad that NO apparantly shows that most poor people happen fall in the same ethnic group. Worse that many people think this is just normal...

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The problem most urban poor have is that they in fact, do not do that. Most spend all of their money on superficial items they can't afford trying to hold the semblence of being wealthy. What's ironic, is that regardless of how stylishly you're dressed, nobody is going to think of you as being anything other than "ghetto" while you live there.

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Originally posted here by Aspman
There was a young chap (Scottish) who has been at the dome and had just landed back home.
He was being interviewed by the media and he was talking abou the bullying in the dome and how he had been subjected to racial abuse from the black refugees. He also talked about how some black people in the queues for water etc had been talking about getting guns and killing all the white people.

There were some better stories about how people had banded together to stay safe and look after each other but it seams to have been 'hell on earth' for those who were stuck there.

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I honestly wouldn't doubt it. Three of my four high schools had a white minority and near 50% black population. I didn't have a problem with that, but they seemed to....That's not just a cursory observation either. One thing I found so frustrating is how Black Americans talk so much about how color shouldn't be an issue, but I literally would here ethnicity brought up in every other sentence, regardless of the topic. It's like I turned off the Chappelle Show and went to bed, but when I woke up the next morning and arrived at school I was still watching it.

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Originally posted here by Evil Moo
The problem most urban poor have is that they in fact, do not do that. Most spend all of their money on superficial items they can't afford trying to hold the semblence of being wealthy. What's ironic, is that regardless of how stylishly you're dressed, nobody is going to think of you as being anything other than "ghetto" while you live there.

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I have my doubts about that, though. Who are we to know what other do and don't need?
Keep in mind that there are cultural differences here too. Appearing poor could be considered extremely shamefull in some communities. Being poor is bad enough, appearing to be the poorest is worse.
And we all have superficial items in our own homes, no matter how rich we are ourselves. And I wonder, about what kind of superficial items are we talking anyway?

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Originally posted here by Katja
I have my doubts about that, though. Who are we to know what other do and don't need?
Keep in mind that there are cultural differences here too. Appearing poor could be considered extremely shamefull in some communities. Being poor is bad enough, appearing to be the poorest is worse.
And we all have superficial items in our own homes, no matter how rich we are ourselves. And I wonder, about what kind of superficial items are we talking anyway?

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New 20" chrome rims for your car instead of paying the rent. The $110 pair of shoes that simply sit in the box in your closet along with all the other equally expensive shoes you bought but never wear to "keep them freash". The masses of money spent on clothing and jewelry assessories yet walk to the Welfare office every week because you "can't support yourself". Throwing away $50-100 at night clubs every other weekend instead of having health coverage for your family. Throwing away extra money on miscillaneous junk versus saving it or putting it toward community college.

I consider those things superficial.

I would definately agree that the problem is cultural, however, when your wearing a (roughly) $250 onsaumble (sp?) on any given day yet you collect Welfare checks, you are the source of your own plight. Sure, your pride might hurt for alittle bit, but then again, you're living in a ghetto. Riddle me this; Who will feel better about themselves--The guy dressed head to toe in Sean Jean and "ice" watching his friend move out to the suburbs, or the mediocrely dressed individual packing his things away?

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I have my doubts about that, though. Who are we to know what other do and don't need?

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Well you need to come over to the US and see for yourself. When you stand in line behind someone using food stamps, buying crap for food, who has 3 or more children(in not the cleanest of clothes), but the parent is dressed rather nicely, buying beer, cigarettes etc. Let us know that we do not know what we are talking about. I know plenty of people on welfare that do the right things for their family. I also know enough of them that don't, and abuse the system.
Doubt all you want, but come and see for yourself.

I hear and see so many people talking about the "ghetto" and ****, without having any ****ing clue of what it is. You know what, honestly, many people abuse the hell out of the system around here, but there are many people who don't. THe problem is that you only tend to notice the ones who abuse it. The flashy "ghetto fabulous" idiots who put dubs on an 84 caddy with rust holes. I live 2 blocks from Child's Park, and anyone who is familiar with the Tampa Bay are familiar with Child's Park, it's on the news every week. I've seen things that most of you won't even see in your worst nightmares. And lemme tell you, it's not a black problem, it's not a poor problem. It's the way these people are. They'd be looting even if they were millionaires. They happen to be poor, and they happen to be black, but those are incidentals. They did not cause the problems. The problem lies in the way the people are. THey are bad people, but since at least subconciously, society associates this behavior with minorities, people overlook, again subconciously, when white people do it.

Ok, this is turning into a pointless rant, and since I seem to have lost whatever point I was going to make... Devpon got it right, come here and see it for yourself. Seeing it on the news doesn't cut it. Driving through a poor neighborhood doesn't cut it. Until you've lived it and truly seen it, then you can judge, condemn, and talk like some kind of authority.

In response to the person(s) who mentioned rims on cars and expensive outfits and spending lots of money in the clubs, I agree, this is extremely wasteful and ignorant.

I grew up in a neighborhood(school zone) were a lot of my associates where poor. The concensus that I gathered is that they are unhappy and the rims, clothes, drinks, partying provides them with temporary satisfaction and gives them the illusion that they are better off than they really are.

Sorry, I've been too lazy to go back and quote folks, but who ever needed to know, its 'ensemble'.
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they are unhappy and the rims, clothes, drinks, partying provides them with temporary satisfaction and gives them the illusion that they are better off than they really are.

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Don't be so nice about it. They do it to compete amongst themselves and to make their useless lives seem important. They know their lives aren't worth ****, but they try to fake it.

Don't sugar coat things. There's nothing wrong with being poor. There's everything wrong with being "ghetto."

I spent three years working and living in an area that was 95% black and the rest hispanic/asian...I was one of a handful of white people that actually lived there, there were a few that had shops, but they left at 5 and went home to suburbia...
there were gangs( bloods and crips ), prostitutes, guns, shootings, homeless, etc...and it was during the King riots...and I had to walk through everything everyday to go to work, go shopping, come home, etc...
we spent two days after the riots under marshal law...9pm curfew...so...I know something about living as a minority...
and I can honestly say...most of what you read is BS...most of what people think is BS...

and...for the most part...those that say they've been there...haven't come within a mile of where they say...they've never lived in the heart of a poor black neighborhood...sure...they might have stumbled in for a few hours during the day...or...spent aweek at a friends...but they haven't lived there...their opinions come from what they assume or see on TV.

Eg ;)

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Don't be so nice about it. They do it to compete amongst themselves and to make their useless lives seem important. They know their lives aren't worth ****, but they try to fake it.

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pretty much. Its not that they arent worth anything, its just that are too lazy to attempt to better themselves. I hate that because it strengthens a stereotype. I have a sister AND a cousin who grew up in suburbia, as did I. Neither of them graduated. My cousin didnt get her diploma because she had a bad attendance record and since then, she's been to trifling to go back and get something she has already earned. I friggin hate her! (change that, I friggin hate that about her!!!)

Then I have to listen to her complain about working for 6 dollars and hour, when I make 25. Anything I say to her sounds like I'm on a soapbox, so she doesnt listen, but she's always askin. She makes me sick.

A poor black neighborhood is no different than a poor white neighborhood...the only difference is a black person feels safer in his neighborhood and a white person feels safer in his...it's all relative...

sure you're going to get the persons who are just plain scared to live anywhere where there is a high incidence of poor crime...but all in all I didn't find them any different to live in.

Eg ;)