Wednesday, September 07, 2005
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.