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A challenge to my black family–UPDATED!!
1 Sep2005
Like many of you, I received the following e-mail:
Apparently white people FIND things:
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/050830071810_shxwaoma_photo1
whereas, black people LOOT things:
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/480/ladm10208301530
Since we are settled on the fact that we live in a country that will always be racist towards us, let’s not use this as a reason not to help those that are in need down there.
The challenge? For every person you have sent this e-mail to, send $10 or something of the equivalent to the charity of your choice.
We can send these e-mail out all day, post it on our websites, but it doesn’t mean a DIME to all the brothas and sistahs out there that are without a home, hungry, missing loved ones, sick, etc.
On my previous post, I have included a list of organizations that are in the Gulf region trying to do what they can.
******UPDATE*******
Obviously most people did not look at the pictures close enough:
It’s difficult to draw any substantiated conclusions from these photographs’ captions. Although they were both carried by many news outlets, they were taken by two different photographers and came from two different services, Associated Press (AP) and Getty Images via Agence France-Presse (AFP). These services may have different stylistic standards for how they caption photographs, or the dissimilar wordings may have been due to nothing more than the preferences of different photographers and editors, or the difference might be the coincidental result of a desire to avoid repetitive wording (similar photographs from the same news services variously describe the depicted actions as “looting,” “raiding,” “taking,” “finding,” and “making off”). The viewer also isn’t privy to the contexts in which the photographs were taken  it’s possible that in one case the photographer actually saw his subject exiting an unattended grocery store with an armful of goods, while in the other case the photographer came upon his subjects with supplies in hand and could only make assumptions about how they obtained them. (PLEASE READ THE REST SO THAT YOU CAN BE INFORMED Y’ALL)
In the end, we believe what we want to believe. All I can do is point out the details.
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Keith
August 31st, 2005 at 9:36 pm
That is a bit interesting isn’t it?
One persons finds something at a grocery store while the other has looted it…?
I have to ask how you ‘find’ anything at a grocery store?
The looting, and ‘finding’ for that matter, is imo not criminal to an extent.
Things are needed for survival.
Considering the situation New Orleans and other cities find themselves in, ‘finding’ food at a grocery store is not a criminal act.
Finding a new stero at Circut City, some rings at a jewlery store, that is criminal.
You do not need those things to survive where as you do need food and you simply aren’t going to find an open market at which to purchase food.
I don’t care what color you are.
If you are in New Orleans or a similarly devestaed area and you find/loot the Windixie for food, then you are not a thief.
If you are in New Orleans or a similarly devestaed area and you find/loot Circut City, you are a criminal be you you black, white, brown….
Tremenda Trigueña
September 1st, 2005 at 7:55 am
I can’t even imagine the devastation everyone affected by this is feeling. I honestly can’t say what I would do in the same situation…I think a million things would be running through my head such as “maybe I can take this jewelry and sell it to make a new start somewhere else”….I don’t know. I think the desperation reaches unprecedented levels and even a person who wasn’t inclined to steal before feels a sense of entitlement due to the loss of everything they had. In a perfect world it isn’t right, but we here behind the blogosphere aren’t homeless with potentially dead family members floating in the mire. I. just. don’t. know.
Tam
September 2nd, 2005 at 10:04 am
I applaud your post. Although I am certain that I did receive the e-mail you mentioned from the actual originator, I did receive it. All it takes is for one person to send it to 5 or more and it will, without a doubt, spread — just like gossip. I agree with you, let’s focus on doing what we can to help those who are in need, whether it be a donation of money or a donation of our time and/or much needed food, clothing & other necessities.
Hen
September 2nd, 2005 at 1:06 pm
If we focus on food, clothing, and the other extras that are needed while faiing to critically analyze the deeper picture, such as the hypocrisy behind the relief efforts, we will play right into the plans that those “controlling elites” have for depopulating Blacks from this society, while they concomitantly use this land to carry out the New World Order agenda. I’ve heard much about fundraising and lay personell assisting our people; however, what bothers me is the lack of urgency the power brokers are showing. Did Bush bring up fundraising during the efforts to “liberate” Iraq? No. He immediately demanded over 80 billion dollars be sent to that effort at modern-day imperialism. The situation on my homefront of Lousiana is similar to the situation in Africa– A disrespected people forced into such dire situations that genocidal effects could result. My people, please don’t be duped by the racist hypocrisy that prevails; please critically analyze and help to put pressure on the “leader” of the “richest country in the world” to fix, not investigate, the situation down in the hub of Blacks in this country– the South. If Southern Black population is affected the entire Black population in this country is affected because it is the soutth that is the home of our people in this country. We must, just as those men and women before us, demand respect. Fundraising want fix this problem; this is a chance for those who receive our tax dollars to put their money where their mouth is; if not, we could be witnessing the beginning of another civil war– the framework of this country.
VB
September 3rd, 2005 at 2:32 am
This response is to “Hen”: You’re saying not to focus on “food, clothes and extras” And “fundraising won’t fix this” My suggestion, don’t tell that to the people in the Gulf states right now, you see, it may cause more violent behavior, this time toward YOU. Those people need food, clothes and all the extras that they can get and it takes fund raising to do it. So “Hen” think before you speak…think. But then I guess it is real easy to tell people to come against the “establishment” when we are sitting in our dry ,comfortable homes, with food in the fridge and a dry bed to sleep in.
If you really care about the people down there, put aside YOUR agenda and think of helping them with what they really need right now.