What is the difference?

[Wheezer]

Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for
help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?

Where is all the media asking the tough questions about why the federal
government hasn't solved the problem? Asking where the FEMA trucks (and
trailers) are?

Why isn't the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free hotels
in Chicago?

When will Spike Lee say that the Federal Government blew up the levees
that failed in Des Moines?

Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks?

Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes and big screen
television sets?

When will we hear Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a
"vanilla" Iowa, because that's the way God wants it?

Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of
cannibalism?

Where are the people declaring that George Bush hates white, rural people?

Just curious...people wanted to hang the Bush administration for Katrina, but no one gives two shits about the people of Iowa....wonder why that is..........

 

[fskimospy]

Number of dead in the Iowa flood: About 20 or so.
Number of dead in Hurricane Katrina : 1,836 confirmed, more then 700 missing.

Gee, I have no idea why.

 

[Moonbeam]

People discovered the President doesn't give two shits about the people in either place so why should they.

 

[M0RPH]

Number of deaths aside, there are a lot of people who lost homes to flooding just like in New Orleans. The difference, as I think you are well aware, is that so many people in New Orleans were black folks. And, you know, since slavery everything that happens to black folks is the fault of the white establishment/government, and the white establishment/government will always 'owe' them. ALWAYS.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: M0RPH
Number of deaths aside, there are a lot of people who lost homes to flooding just like in New Orleans. The difference, as I think you are well aware, is that so many people in New Orleans were black folks. And, you know, since slavery everything that happens to black folks is the fault of the white establishment/government, and the white establishment/government will always 'owe' them. ALWAYS.

Nice play of the race card!

I have not been tracking the Iowa situation. But how quickly has the Fed responded to the Iowa flooding compared to results of Hurricane Katrina?

Wasn't the slowness or lack of response of the Fed the main cause of the Nation's response to Hurricane Katrina?

About Spike Lee's comment, which I had not heard about, actors, athletes, and anyone can say and believe incredibly stupid things.

 

[Craig234]

Your post is pretty offensive in implying that the Katrina outrage was unjustified.

The situations are very different, in the type of damage (casualties were mentioned above), the response from the federal government, and more.

Regarding Spike Lee, he didn't say the government blew up the levees, so you are not being honest. He said it 'wasn't that far-fetched' a possibility.

I don't agree with him; but the fact is, there were developers and government people ready to jump on the 'opportunities' for grabbing the blacks' land and developing it for more expensive use that would be bought by most whites. There's no corresponding situation for blacks to grab the whites' land in Iowa. How many blacks who lost their homes in New Orleans are returning (few), compared to how many whites in Iowa (all?)? That nullifies your 'vanilla Iowa' point.

You're basically taking s mix of a few wrong-headed statements, some out of context things, some things which don't account for the differences in the situations, and some things you made up, and trying to make a big issue where there isn't one - along with denigrating the issue of the history of blacks' oppression in the US to say basically that the blacks are oppressing you, not the other way around in the past.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: M0RPH
Number of deaths aside, there are a lot of people who lost homes to flooding just like in New Orleans. The difference, as I think you are well aware, is that so many people in New Orleans were black folks. And, you know, since slavery everything that happens to black folks is the fault of the white establishment/government, and the white establishment/government will always 'owe' them. ALWAYS.

You know you could have saved your self some time and effort by just posting "I'm a foolish person"

If any major city suffered the type of death and destruction N.O. did it would be huge deal no matter what the racial make up of that city was and if the response was as dismal you can bet that there would be a major uproar, especially if it happened to a more affluent area.

 

[RKDaley]

Looks like a post that's being passed around the internet.

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