How best to assess the monstrosity that's transpiring in New Orleans??
Disgusting for starters. There used to be a time when people of color, especially in times of need and desperation, still sustained a thread of morale that drove their will to survive while gaining the compassion and respect of bystanders world-wide. What would the wise late Ossie Davis say?
Now we have a devastating natural disaster like Katrina being used as an excuse for morally bankrupts individuals with guns, to capitalize on material accumulation at the cost of life preservation. Reports and video of blacks--mainly black men--looting and raping vulnerable citizens. These same looters have boldly declared that just want federal aide and then left on their own---them being Blacks, on their own without the non-blacks. They are under the illusion that in an isolated utopian society, these same self-serving, opportunistic blacks, who for many years have been able to live comfortably on unemployment, will avail themselves to rebuild their own community. Right.
Alas, behold the curse of a collective social consciousness with a short-term memory.
Already, they've forgotten the LA riots. To this day there are parts in that section of LA this are uninhabitable because the US government let "them" destroy themselves. Do these looters really think George W. Bush gives a damn about some black people running amuck killing eacheacher and risking their lives everytime they venture out in the filthy waters to steal dvd's or a major electrical appliance?
My heart goes out to the Blacks in New Orleans who are law-bidding citizens and are sticking it out waiting to be rescued. We all know that historically, trained military snipers will not likely try differentiate you from your neighboring looters who share your color skin.
