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Katrina's Wrath
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Voltaic Borusse
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I'm sorry, but I couldn't help but laugh and roll at Mike Meyer's reaction. It's one of a kind, really. You could literally see the sheer disgust on his face. And Kanye was totally in the wrong, IMO. If you're going to be a Carlos*ass, do it -- using another medium.
Voltaic Borusse said:
I couldn't laugh at that because it was Mike Meyers being serious and that's not funny. The look on his face was like "
" what Kanye said was completely wrong but hey at least you can take the man seriously since he actually finished highschool unlike most rappers.Voltaic Borusse
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You can't really pin-point it then, because the expression Mike Meyers conveyed looked like (to me) he was disgusted and embarrassed by Kanye's outlandish comment. Anyway, Kanye could have at least been intelligent about it. He looked like he was reading off a teleprompter when he said that comment.
The whole incident is horrible. I was watching BBC yesterday which was covering the story minute by minute. It's a shame that many people (mostly poor African Americans) have been left to fend for themselves in horrifying conditions - and are still waiting for rescue teams. There is no food, no shelter and or proper clothing which explains all the looting.
The whole response from Bush's administration has been pathetic. He is just telling people on TV to keep calm (and the idiot fails to realize that most victims have lost their homes and have no access to TV's!). You'd think that the world's richest and most technologically advanced nation would never witness the scenes we're seeing live on tv. Most of the scenes resemble a third world country. I mean really, kids are being raped. KIDS! So much for great America, it can't even take care of its own people.
They didn't have an adequate plan and resources in place to help those who would need it promptly. Seriously, if you knew that there would be so much flooding, you should have planned a mandatory evacuation forcing everybody to leave up for North - but nah!
I bet you if they were all middle-class upper-class white people, you wouldn't be seeing what you're seeing.
It was being predicted for many years then levees protecting New Orleans need to be reinforced. They were designed for Category 3 hurricane, but it was being predicted that New Orleans is going to be hit by more severe Category 4 or 5 hurricane sometime in future.
Guess what. Now Bush cut the funding for the programs to improve
reinforcements, and sent troops needed for doing this work to EYE-RAK.
The whole response from Bush's administration has been pathetic. He is just telling people on TV to keep calm (and the idiot fails to realize that most victims have lost their homes and have no access to TV's!). You'd think that the world's richest and most technologically advanced nation would never witness the scenes we're seeing live on tv. Most of the scenes resemble a third world country. I mean really, kids are being raped. KIDS! So much for great America, it can't even take care of its own people.
They didn't have an adequate plan and resources in place to help those who would need it promptly. Seriously, if you knew that there would be so much flooding, you should have planned a mandatory evacuation forcing everybody to leave up for North - but nah!
I bet you if they were all middle-class upper-class white people, you wouldn't be seeing what you're seeing.
It was being predicted for many years then levees protecting New Orleans need to be reinforced. They were designed for Category 3 hurricane, but it was being predicted that New Orleans is going to be hit by more severe Category 4 or 5 hurricane sometime in future.
Guess what. Now Bush cut the funding for the programs to improve
reinforcements, and sent troops needed for doing this work to EYE-RAK.
Yeah, Kanye was being random as hell... but he just wanted to get his message out. And I don't think he was wrong. I just disagree with the way he said it but than again, this is a celebrity. There's no point in getting upset about what some celebrity said--the only reason they're saying it and you're not is because people listen to celebrities as if the Pope were saying it.
Back to point: When the tsunami hit, they kept showing this family from Norway or whatever when hundreds of thousands of Asians were dying. On Thursday, NBC first showed the Superdome--full of black people of course. Than they showed 8 random white strangers hiding on the roof "guarding" against intruders.
Don't think race plays a roll in this? Either get real or move out of Wyoming.
Back to point: When the tsunami hit, they kept showing this family from Norway or whatever when hundreds of thousands of Asians were dying. On Thursday, NBC first showed the Superdome--full of black people of course. Than they showed 8 random white strangers hiding on the roof "guarding" against intruders.
Don't think race plays a roll in this? Either get real or move out of Wyoming.
So 6 days have passed and only now are we seeing some aid get in to the worst hit spots, it's pathetic. Bush can invade Iraq within 24 hrs but help those poor people who have lost everything? oh no. Invade a country half way 'round the world, no problem, but providing basic care for the survivors, no that's a bit too much to ask.
The lack of response has been extremely pathetic, there was more aid in Asia when that tsunami struck than there is in the areas hit in the US. The richest country on the planet can't string together a decent evacuation/aid operation.
I think it only shows that in every major US city is a third world "country", the bridge between rich and poor really has come through.
The lack of response has been extremely pathetic, there was more aid in Asia when that tsunami struck than there is in the areas hit in the US. The richest country on the planet can't string together a decent evacuation/aid operation.
I think it only shows that in every major US city is a third world "country", the bridge between rich and poor really has come through.
Parra Power
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Vagegast said:
I lived for a short time in the US during a work contract and I was appauled at how blatantly racist everyone was, like it was part of the culture or something. Even the highly educated people I was dealing with had no problem saying Jew this, nigger that, those wetbacks, etc.. it was jaw-dropping at first. Not to say racism doesn't exist in Canada which is certainly does, it's just more under the rug here for the most part..
The USA and it's media are controlled by white people, I don't think it's any surprise how this is being covered. If it had happened in Saudi Arabia, I somehow doubt that Al-Jazeera would give a lot of focus to drowning foreigners, and that was just an example, same goes for most other countries I think. yeah, it's really too bad to see it happen in a country like America but that's just human nature man, sadly.
I'd be lying though (as would most of you all be) if I said a tragedy like this didn't have a stronger personal impact when my own people are involved. Blacks certainly wouldn't be as outraged if it were some white town in North Dakota that was somehow underwater, again that's human nature to an extent I beleive, something to do with an inate sense of preservation IMO....and this coming from someone who only has like 4 white family members, the rest are non-white. Just thought I'd mention that before someone called me a nazi or something.
...and no, I don't think Kanye should have said what he did. Not now, anyway. He will have plenty of opportunities to voice his opinion, but now he's just succeded in making an already tense situation worse.
Even though I can't stand the mother****er, he's got a point. It's not that sexy to be saving the lives of poor and decrepit Negroes. Maybe when they learn to vote Republican Bush and the Conservatives will give a damn about 'em.
Tucker's reaction was comporable to that of a dude walking into the middle of his wife taking one off the chin by a close friend of his.............best piece of emoting he's done in his career thus far, man.
Tucker's reaction was comporable to that of a dude walking into the middle of his wife taking one off the chin by a close friend of his.............best piece of emoting he's done in his career thus far, man.
Parra Power
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::shinji:: said:
agreed..... he may or may not be right but now is def. not the time for criticism. it would be like criticizing and blaming american foreign policy on september 12, 2001. when the situation is resolved, and "normality" (in whatever form it may take) is restored, THEN you can start playing the blame game... not now
Brondbyfan
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Parra Power said:
Actually, that's exactly wrong. This is what everyone said after 9/11 - "Oh it's too soon! This isn't the time for politics!" And surprise surprise, the time never came. We still don't know why there were no fighter escorts on 9/11, for instance. Everyone just kind of forgot. Now is the time to ask the hard questions about Katrina. Bush's response is incredibly suspicious. After 9/11 he was right there, saying exactly the right things. After Katrina he's done everything exactly wrong. He couldn't even be arsed to cancel his golfing plans. Why the difference? Could it be because Katrina hasn't given him the excuse to execute his pre-planned wars?
Vagegast said:
I thought it is the right time for Kanye to say something because it is already too late isn't it???
and yet another proof that America is a racist country check out the cnn presents which the had on tonight about the hurricane where they show white families going back to check on their homes and then they get to a point where a woman in a white family finds their home still standing and she's crying and clapping to her husband "ITS THERE BABE ITS THERE!!" at the same time where black americans are dying of hunger and sickness and nobody even bothers...Tell me americans care about how Blacks feel!!
The whole thing is a disgrace and what saddens me is the fact that the rich are gonna get richer and the poor are gonna die of more poorness and negligence
Where's God?
kickin_kyle
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shez said:
wtf are you taling about? i've only seen one interview with a white victim of Katrina and MANY interviews with black victims..... on CNN. did you just turn on the TV for a second and then decide that America is racist?