Saturday, September 24, 2005
Fabrications Beyond Their Expiration Date
The left is taking the Katrina ball and running with it -- still.
The phony "racism" charge is still being played off as a legitimate story in the mainstream media along with the left’s perennial rant about poverty (two show trials for the price of one).
I wonder how things would have fared if a catastrophe on the scale of Katrina had struck the Euro-Arab slums of Paris or Berlin? Deaths from Katrina haven’t reached anywhere near the number of senior citizen's deaths in France’s summer heat wave of 2003 -- 'must have been "ageism". In the German media (link to German media watchdog, Davids Mediankritik), a "free press" seems only able to provide an anti-U.S. leftist "perspective" on any issue, and things are no different regarding America's natural disasters -- accusations of racism from a country that...(well, you remember...).
I’m not sure how a city -- New Orleans -- of almost 70% black citizens, with a black mayor, and a Democrat governor (voted in by 90% of the black vote), could have become a "victim of racism." Maybe things would have been different if Jesse Jackson was mayor and Al Sharpton had been governor. In New Orleans, the state of events before, during, and after Katrina, clearly indicates that local incompetence and corruption are equal opportunity employers. In a place where most of the police force walked off their jobs during a natural disaster one has to wonder what the guiding principals of character are there -- and why that didn't happen in neighboring states.
Lets use a similar formula of logic that some used regarding the fewer white people who suffered from a national disaster in a predominantly black city; I don’t know what the population of Asians was in New Orleans but it appears that their numbers are few amongst the victims (or they’re limited in PR “spokespersons”). Unrelated to the Hurricane, Asians tend to have the highest test scores of any group as well, so their racist conspiracy is clearly working out as planned. Maybe Asians as a group should be punished for their work ethic and close family ties? Perhaps black "spokespersons" (not meaning, of course, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, Walter Williams, Condoleezza Rice, Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, etc.) could encourage black youth to not only not act white but also, not act Asian since Asians, as a group, seem to have a successful formula for dealing with life well in a free society. (Perhaps because many of them have come from societies that are not free).
Race is not the valid issue in the Katrina story but perhaps culture is (?). Black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean seem to do as well as most other immigrants but haven't come to America with the sense of entitlement that decades of government dependency programs have fostered upon some native citizens.
The results of Katrina aren't about skin color or ethnic origins, but they may be about some people’s “content [or lack] of character.” The issue definitely demonstrates the inexhaustible capacity of media and their selected "spokespersons" to wave the flag of race, "class," and victimhood (since they won't likely ever be waving the flag of the country they live in).
When a widely expected earthquake strikes San Francisco, I'm sure a few "gay men, women, and transgendered spokespersons" will see some dubious coincidences in responses to that natural disaster.
It's amazing the number of excuses the left can conjure to impose the authority of their beloved bureau-state.
A Comic Commentary from Promethean Visions
Promethean Quote from The Promethean Observer :
“The difference between a pack animal and a socialist is that a pack animal is less dangerous to those around it.
