Hi there,
i need to have some sources, like statistics or newspaper articles (reasons as well) agreeing that the government was not racist in offering black people help during hurricane katrina.
Only answer if you have the answer to my question. This is school work and i didn’t choose wether to defend or attack the government in this issue.
thanks in advance
There’s no evidence at all that the US government discriminated against African-Americans in providing aid to survivors of Hurricane Katrina. The burden of proof of that accusation is on those making the accusation, and so far no one has produced any proof that is adequate of racism on the part of the Federal government.
Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans, on the other hand, behaved in an overtly racist manner on several occasions during and after the storm. The most obviously racist act of Mayor Nagin was when he asked on national TV and radio for African-American refugees from Katrina to return (in time for the city mayoral elections) and "make New Orleans a ‘chocolate city’ again"
Before the storm arrived, his failure to accept Federal assistance in preparing for the hurricane led directly to many of the deaths among African-Americans. Fuel which could have been used to power school buses and other city-owned vehicles to evacuate citizens who later died could have been furnished from Federal stockpiles at the Naval Support Activity at Algiers (a neighborhood directly across the river from New Orleans) or from Alvin Callender Field, a Marine and Naval airstrip in the same general area. In refusing Federal assistance, Mayor Nagin appears to have been motivated by either racial hatred of President Bush and the Republican Party or from misguided loyalty to the Democratic Party.
Democratic Party political sabotage appears to have been the motivating factor in Governor Kathleen Blanco’s refusal to allow the use of state-owned vehicles in evacuation of endangered citizens from New Orleans, but racism on Blanco’s part (state government, not Federal, in other words) cannot be excluded as a possibility. Governor Blanco also declined offers of Federal assistance made by President Bush. She also sent troops from the Louisiana Army National Guard in to confine Katrina survivors to certain areas of the city.
FEMA’s errors made after the storm arrived seem to have been the result of incompetence, not racism. No one certainly has proven racism as a motivating factor in any of the errors made by FEMA, although the incompetence and insensitivity to people’s needs was astounding on several occasions and resulted in much unnecessary suffering on the part of blacks and whites alike.
But actual improprieties were committed not by Federal, but by state and local officials, ranging from diversion of Levee Board funds for sculpture and guns for civilian employees to politically-motivated refusal of aid to the citizens of New Orleans, to looting and other offenses committed by officers of the New Orleans Police Department and one instance in which bridges out of New Orleans appear to have been blockaded by out-of-city law enforcement officers or civilians with guns. Racist incidents, when they occurred, were committed by local and state officials, law enforcement and civilians, not Federal troops.
Allegations of Federal improprieties were made by Democratic Party political operatives and members of the media who seized on an opportunity to make false accusations in order to politicize the tragic deaths of New Orleanian citizens. No proof was ever produced of the accusation by these people and others that response by Federal officials might have been more rapid if the storm had occurred in a predominately white community.(4)
However there were many instances of racially motivated violence and even murder of people who took refugees in by some of the refugees, who were mostly black. These stories were not reported by and large by the national media, but covered locally in the communities which took in evacuees.
Many reports of racism were the result of racist attitudes on the part of both blacks and whites in New Orleans according to a sociological study by the University of California at Los Angeles. This study, however, defined white racism and black racism differently and was thus open to charges of racism itself because its definition of "white racism" assumed intent to be racist among whites even when whites said or did nothing overtly racist. According to this study, a white person, according to the study language, would have to drop whatever else he or she was doing to provide aid to a black person in order not to be accused of racism. No such definition was made of black racism, nor were overt acts of bigotrry on the part of blacks in the wake of Katrina (such as widespread looting and arson of residences in white neighborhoods) discussed at all. (5)
A US House of Representatives study of the response to Katrina ascribed the damage after Katrina to "a failure of initiative" - institutional error, NOT racism - at Federal, state and local levels, but also mentioned 166 million dollars in over-payments due to fraudulent applications by Katrina survivors or others. (Payments were made to 481,624 households in the four affected Louisiana parishes have received payments – when census data documents only 398,629 households living in these four parishes. Simple math indicates that around 83,000 households were made up in order that someone collected FEMA aid illegally.) (6) Dishonesty was definitely at work in an astounding number of cases, if not outright racism among some survivors.
February 6th, 2010 at 4:26 am
Akbar!!!!!!!!!
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Akbar.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:03 am
It would be racist to not offer black people aid, as it would be if they didn’t offer white people aid.
They were NOT racist because they gave aid to (almost) everyone, blacks and whites included.
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February 6th, 2010 at 5:44 am
Its not racist because not just one race lives in New Orleans..there are white black hispanic and asian people there….its not like one race was favored over another in New Orleans….tell your teacher your source is common sense
Your teacher is an idiot by the way
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February 6th, 2010 at 6:20 am
what kind of school do you go to that they would assign you something like that? Shouldn’t you be making your own argument- they shouldn’t tell you what to think or what to defend. This sounds fucked up and biased you should argue it.
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February 6th, 2010 at 6:54 am
There’s no evidence at all that the US government discriminated against African-Americans in providing aid to survivors of Hurricane Katrina. The burden of proof of that accusation is on those making the accusation, and so far no one has produced any proof that is adequate of racism on the part of the Federal government.
Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans, on the other hand, behaved in an overtly racist manner on several occasions during and after the storm. The most obviously racist act of Mayor Nagin was when he asked on national TV and radio for African-American refugees from Katrina to return (in time for the city mayoral elections) and "make New Orleans a ‘chocolate city’ again"
Before the storm arrived, his failure to accept Federal assistance in preparing for the hurricane led directly to many of the deaths among African-Americans. Fuel which could have been used to power school buses and other city-owned vehicles to evacuate citizens who later died could have been furnished from Federal stockpiles at the Naval Support Activity at Algiers (a neighborhood directly across the river from New Orleans) or from Alvin Callender Field, a Marine and Naval airstrip in the same general area. In refusing Federal assistance, Mayor Nagin appears to have been motivated by either racial hatred of President Bush and the Republican Party or from misguided loyalty to the Democratic Party.
Democratic Party political sabotage appears to have been the motivating factor in Governor Kathleen Blanco’s refusal to allow the use of state-owned vehicles in evacuation of endangered citizens from New Orleans, but racism on Blanco’s part (state government, not Federal, in other words) cannot be excluded as a possibility. Governor Blanco also declined offers of Federal assistance made by President Bush. She also sent troops from the Louisiana Army National Guard in to confine Katrina survivors to certain areas of the city.
FEMA’s errors made after the storm arrived seem to have been the result of incompetence, not racism. No one certainly has proven racism as a motivating factor in any of the errors made by FEMA, although the incompetence and insensitivity to people’s needs was astounding on several occasions and resulted in much unnecessary suffering on the part of blacks and whites alike.
But actual improprieties were committed not by Federal, but by state and local officials, ranging from diversion of Levee Board funds for sculpture and guns for civilian employees to politically-motivated refusal of aid to the citizens of New Orleans, to looting and other offenses committed by officers of the New Orleans Police Department and one instance in which bridges out of New Orleans appear to have been blockaded by out-of-city law enforcement officers or civilians with guns. Racist incidents, when they occurred, were committed by local and state officials, law enforcement and civilians, not Federal troops.
Allegations of Federal improprieties were made by Democratic Party political operatives and members of the media who seized on an opportunity to make false accusations in order to politicize the tragic deaths of New Orleanian citizens. No proof was ever produced of the accusation by these people and others that response by Federal officials might have been more rapid if the storm had occurred in a predominately white community.(4)
However there were many instances of racially motivated violence and even murder of people who took refugees in by some of the refugees, who were mostly black. These stories were not reported by and large by the national media, but covered locally in the communities which took in evacuees.
Many reports of racism were the result of racist attitudes on the part of both blacks and whites in New Orleans according to a sociological study by the University of California at Los Angeles. This study, however, defined white racism and black racism differently and was thus open to charges of racism itself because its definition of "white racism" assumed intent to be racist among whites even when whites said or did nothing overtly racist. According to this study, a white person, according to the study language, would have to drop whatever else he or she was doing to provide aid to a black person in order not to be accused of racism. No such definition was made of black racism, nor were overt acts of bigotrry on the part of blacks in the wake of Katrina (such as widespread looting and arson of residences in white neighborhoods) discussed at all. (5)
A US House of Representatives study of the response to Katrina ascribed the damage after Katrina to "a failure of initiative" - institutional error, NOT racism - at Federal, state and local levels, but also mentioned 166 million dollars in over-payments due to fraudulent applications by Katrina survivors or others. (Payments were made to 481,624 households in the four affected Louisiana parishes have received payments – when census data documents only 398,629 households living in these four parishes. Simple math indicates that around 83,000 households were made up in order that someone collected FEMA aid illegally.) (6) Dishonesty was definitely at work in an astounding number of cases, if not outright racism among some survivors.
References :
1) http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/Gilman/
2) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10354221/
3) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14414777/
4) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177900,00.html
5) http://cretscmhd.psych.ucla.edu/nola/volunteer/EmpiricalStudies/Institutional%20discrimination,%20individual%20racism,%20and%20hurricane%20katrina.pdf
6) http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=34914
February 6th, 2010 at 7:18 am
It was racist in offering black people aid.
Racist means you think your race is superior. That’s not a bad thing.
The gov’t. leaders felt guilty because their race is superior to that of blacks, so the gov’t. felt sorry for the blacks and gave them more aid than was given to the whites in Mississippi and Alabama.
Blacks should feel good knowing that some whites are racist. It makes some whites feel guilty about being racist, so they tend to overcompensate blacks with handouts.
White racism can be utilized in more ways than one.
When you think of white racists, you probably thing of the KKK. But those whites who oppose the KKK and the beliefs of the KKK can also be racist, and in fact, are. But they react differently to their racism than the KKK does.
Remember what racism is. Racism is not hatred, it is simpy a feeling that your race is superior to other races, it doesn’t mean you’re going to take advantage of your superiority.
White Guilt is a form of racism, which is masked as being beneficial to blacks, although in the long run it really hurts blacks by making them reliant on white handouts.
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http://www.kkk311.com - and - http://www.kkklan.com
February 6th, 2010 at 7:43 am
you are aware that our country is in a recession and is struggling to help out our own citizens let alone people in some other bumble fuck country right?
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February 6th, 2010 at 8:18 am
It’s reverse racism. Rather than being discriminated they get special treatment.
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