On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:42:58 GMT, "Thomas Littleton"
wrote:


wrote in message

But it had nothing to do with race - it had to do
with the breakdown of law and order in New Orleans proper. And that, to
me, is a telling and important point: only in New Orleans proper was
there the extreme level of looting, gunplay, and criminal activity,

At times, this past couple of weeks, I have thought about a discussion, er,
debate, er whatever(thank goodness for your level headed spouse, or we would
have set upon one another with crab forks after a couple more beersg). I
was trying, although near-delerious, to make a case for preventing the
development of a society where the "haves" separate rapidly from the "have
nots". I described how, historically, that type of situation led to anarchy
and revolution. To some small extent, I think we saw proof of that in New
Orleans, and if I am correct, it is a frightening glimpse of where this
nation is headed. Farbeit from me to come up with an easy solution, and I am
of the opinion that we have to get the Gulf mess headed further towards
recovery before trying to have a national debate. Still, the evolution of
the US over the past 25 years or so disturbs me, the idea that maybe 2% of
the populace is distancing themselves in true economic terms from the other
98% is going to breed more, and deeper issues. Just passing a thought along,
hopefully no readers see it as a "blame Bush", or "blame anybody"
observation.
Tom


Well, let me make it a "blame somebody" observation:

For the most part, folks in NO are law-abiding and decent, be they
black, white, rich, poor, or sorta in-between, both as to race and
status. The criminal activity situation in NO has nothing to do with
the poor and downtrodden revolting against some upper class. There are
lots more decent folks, who happen to also be poor, in NO and all over
the area, from west of NO to Mobile, AL, and of all colors, who didn't
loot, shoot, or otherwise cause mayhem. This has to do with the
subclass of lawless animals (yes, mostly black) bred into existence by,
amongst other things, a welfare/handout state taken way too far by a
bunch of sorry-assed guilty white supposedly "liberal" enablers,
sorry-assed black "leaders" like Jackson and Sharpton who play them like
fiddles, and the sour creme on top of the stinking froth, sorry-assed
white pols like Kennedy (any of several) and the Clintons, who use it
all to keep themselves in some form of power.

As to the race aspect, notice Jesse and Al didn't tarnish their jewelry
actually doing anything but running their mouths, as opposed to a number
of black preachers, real men of God and their fellow man, who were
actually working and who stopped just long enough to tell them to shut
up.

And of course, also contributing to the problem are things like the fact
that if Bill Cosby had posted the above, it'd be "something to really
think about" for some, whereas now, it'll just be "Dicklet" or some
other such silly-assed insult from those same folks.

R