Hurricane Katrina vs. Devastating Iowa 500 Year Flood

[DownWithTheLeft]

From an e-mail I received... I don't like e-mail forwards but I hadn't thought about it this way:
 * Why aren't all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons and asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?

Easy, there is no extensive media coverage

    * Why isn't the media asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn't solved the problem?

Easy, there aren't angry Iowans screaming about their problems

    * Where are all the FEMA trucks and trailers?

New Orleans

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

People are screaming loud enough

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

When Iowa gets some black people

    * Where is Sean Penn in his rescue boat and the Dixie Chicks?

New Orleans

    * Where are all the 24/7 lurid news tales of cannibalism and unnecessary drownings?

New Orleans

    * Why did Iowans evacuate so prematurely; why are they not holed up in deathtrap sports centers?

There's no exciting sports teams in Iowa

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

New Orleans

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

Two days before Chet Culver is kicked out of office

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

It doesn't fly as fly as him hating blacks

    * Why are the Iowans not complaining more and demanding to be saved?

No one seems to care

    * How come in about 2 weeks, you will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever again?

Because they took action instead of bitching

[DownWithTheLeft]

My bigot brother in law is circulating that email but with a different answer.  It reads the same until the end, where it says...

"because some breeds of people ruin everything they have and everything you give them...while other breeds can pull themselves up by there (sic) own bootstraps...."

In short, Katrina victims were whiny blacks with a chip on their shoulders and a sense of entitlement.  While midwest flood victims were mostly whites who believe in hard work and personal responsibility.

Given the racist crap that spews from a couple of forum member keyboards, I am surprised I have not seen this version of the email circulated here.

It has nothing to do with race, the people involved in Katrina did have a sense of entitlement and cared little about personal responsibility, just who they could blame for their problem.

[DownWithTheLeft]

My bigot brother in law is circulating that email but with a different answer.  It reads the same until the end, where it says...

"because some breeds of people ruin everything they have and everything you give them...while other breeds can pull themselves up by there (sic) own bootstraps...."

In short, Katrina victims were whiny blacks with a chip on their shoulders and a sense of entitlement.  While midwest flood victims were mostly whites who believe in hard work and personal responsibility.

Given the racist crap that spews from a couple of forum member keyboards, I am surprised I have not seen this version of the email circulated here.

It has nothing to do with race, the people involved in Katrina did have a sense of entitlement and cared little about personal responsibility, just who they could blame for their problem.

They just happened to be black is all, right? 

I'm sure plenty of them were not, its just inner city people in general tend to be minorities.  If they were all white I'm sure the same thing would have happened.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Apparently Jsojourner's brother-in-law was asleep during any form of instruction regarding black history in the united states. Either that or he's someone pining for the antebellum days when slaves worked on the land and knew their place.

The latter.  He actually taught history for awhile.  He believes slavery was a God-ordained institution under which slaves were well-treated, better off and Christianized.

He's a big fan of the Bob Jones University history curriculum for Christian schools and home schoolers.  His favorite book on American history is Peter Marshall's horrendously bad, The Light and the Glory.

This is why I tell people here, and elsewhere, these religious right fanatics are not confined to a single Baptist church in Witchita, Kansas with a pastor named Phelps.

Hell, until I was about 21...I was pretty much one of them.  Most of my family still is.  Americans like these are not rarities by any stretch.  They may be less common or visible in some places, like both coasts.  But in the midwest and south, they are ubiquitous.

LOL @ how you think your high and mighty because you have a different belief system than someone else