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RACIST AMERICA DONATES
Various opinion pieces attacking American racism in the wake of Hurricane Katrina should note this:
Americans are opening their pocketbooks so fast and so wide in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that donations have already dwarfed the first week’s efforts to help victims of last year’s Asian tsunami and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
By Tuesday evening, U.S. charities had raised more than $500 million in cash and pledges — more than twice the $239 million donated in the 10 days after Sept. 11, and more than three times the $163 million raised in the nine days after the tsunami that hit countries along the Indian Ocean last Dec. 26.
Here’s an earlier report:
Americans have given at least $404 million to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The pace of giving is unprecedented in recent American history. In the 10 days after September 11, Americans donated $239 million to charitable causes, and in the 9 days after the tsunamis hit, major American relief groups raised $163 million.
That’s money donated to the mainly poor and black victims of Katrina. Instapundit readers alone have donated $360,000. Click by Chuck Simmins for updates.
Who’s going to tell Anne Rice about this? (“To my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us ‘Sin City,’ and turned your backs.”)
Once again the black racist calling slanderers will try and take credit for raising all that money. I bet if it was within reach of there hands it would turn into a UN oil for food scam all over again. They are the Jessie Jacksonites who are brain washed to believe that blacks are poor because of the rupublican, white, racist money machine. They preach racism because they want to keep it alive. They need to keep it alive so they can live off donations given to their protect the black man cause. They themselves are con artist for money and they use their color to get it. Want an example: Jessie Jackson goes to sue Anheiser Busch because there are no major distibutors of their product controlled by a black man. So Anheiser Busch creates one and would you know it…the son of Jessie Jackson runs the place. I hear it is run very poorly. So without the racist soap box to stand on to keep racism alive, even if they have to make it up, they would be out of a paying job which is funded by donations which may mean it is a tax free job. The reality is these black slanderers know what they are doing. They will never give credit to the American people for being generous to give money to help out in such a tragety no matter who it helps.
Posted by wingsndagger on 2005 09 07 at 12:57 PM • permalinkAs usual, the the global chorus of no-nothing prosecutors, busy conducting their non-stop show trial of the United States are working with assumptions about race and class in America which are more than a generation out of date.
Per capita income among African-Americans exceeds that of many parts of Europe, including that utopian wonderland of Lefty hopes and dreams, Sweden. The wealth possessed by 30 million African-Americans exceeds that of Canada’s 30 million people.
The Soviets learned the hard way about America’s ‘poor,’ filming documentary footage in American ghettos that showed the folks standing in line back home that America’s ‘poor people’ owned cars, televisions and air conditioners.
As someone who spends a good bit of time in the developing world, I find discussions aboout ‘poverty’ in America difficult to take seriously. America’s ‘poor’ are richer than 95% of the world’s people.
Ugh.
Yes, but how much more would we have donated had it been East Hampton that was flooded? I’m sure we all would have given thousands more to save some poor marketing executives and 70s rock stars.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2005 09 07 at 01:14 PM • permalinkNo, no, you don’t understand, the Evil White Americans thought they were paying to have water pumped in…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 09 07 at 07:47 PM • permalinkBy Tuesday evening, U.S. charities had raised more than $500 million in cash and pledges ... more than three times the $163 million raised in the nine days after the tsunami that hit countries along the Indian Ocean last Dec. 26.
Well see, this proves that America is racist. We’re just more racist towards Indians and Indonesians than we are to African Americans.
This must stop!
Posted by wronwright on 2005 09 07 at 08:11 PM • permalinkI try to ignore this stuff because it frustrates me. I don’t understand a single one of the hurricane-related articles citing some action (or inaction) as evidence for (or proof against) racism, including this one. How does my donating to the Red Cross for hurricane victims show I’m not racist?
If I donated before news coverage went into full court press about “the shame of America”, am I more or less racist? What if I donated after seeing days of media insanity and looting and reports of snipers? Or after I crunched some numbers and discovered that almost 2 1/2 times as many black as white people were fortunately evacuated to safety before the hurricane hit? At what point is my contribution to relief, such as it is, tainted as evidence for or against racism?
I suffer the same disorientation regarding my culpability and disregard (or not?) for the poor. Fun fact: Mississippi is poorer than Louisiana! [Louisiana’s median household income in 1999 was $32,566 while Mississippi’s was $31,330. (U.S. median was $41,994).] How does any of this become a reason for or reason against trying to help and trying to do more? What is it about this that is so important?
I just don’t get it.
“...donations have already dwarfed the first week’s efforts to help victims of last year’s Asian tsunami…”
Which just goes to show that Americans didn’t really care about those poor tsunami victims. I guess foreigners are the wrong shade of brown. Damn selfish imperialist American bastards!
Hey, This stuff is easy! I’ll be finished my award winning documentary in no time.
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