Apropos this thread, I found this article from the BBC interesting
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4216508.stm

More or less sums up what various B1 memberrs have said on this thread, and I guess what we all know from watching the news.

A very good read, thank you.

Some might once again feel this is a black & white issue. I think it's a black & white issue only if you make it one. If you choose to focus on black & white, everything can become, or look like, a black & white issue.

If your trying to explain to someone a discription of a person and you say he/she was big, tall, fat or small it's a discription. If you mention their color as a part of their discription, that's fine too as long as they are white. If their color is black and you use that as part of their discription, now your a rasist. :confused:

The debit we owe to the black people is much like the USA debit, we are never going to pay it off... so just sit back and deal with it the best way you know how.

We need more people like that man Jabbar Gibson who was not scared to take the bus to help, knowing he was doing good. He could have done nothing like the people who die in beatings while a hand full or hundreds of people watch, when they could all easily ban together to take over & save a life.

Sorry... END OF RANT!

If anyone has any doubt that the local officals had a plan but didn't implement it as it was SUPPOSED to be, read this story from 14 months ago...
http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/newsr...cyexercise.htm

Good read and I hope that lots of people begin to understand we're all on the same team, notwithstanding economic class. I don't think it's a black and white issue (that's an exuse). It's a class issue and that is the most evident difference if you look at Washington DC types--estpecially people close to the White House and the old line Senators. Good posts. Thanks

MY gulf coast buddy tells me hi speed internet is back up. (as is electricity most everywhere except washed out beach areas. Now the gawkers are coming and clogging the roads, buying up the small reserves of gasoline and in general creating a nuissance for local residents. They are even standing in line for FEMA bottled water and MRE's.

It's very sad that tragedies like this are always (ab)used in a political way by those who have to lead us......words,nothing than words,to kill their political opponents,while there are other priorities right now.....
Black,white,grey,whatever colour we have,we're all human,and especially in times of pain and sorrow,we have to stand together and help each other....instead of wasting their energy to put this into a racial conflict,they'd better take a shovel in their hands....