Hurricane Katrina

[Prince Eric]

African is not a race. There are White People who also come from Africa.

Again, you are mistaken. I am talking about the race, not nationality. There is a difference. For example, you can be African and live in the United Kingdom. You can be Caucasian and live in Ethiopia. You can be Asian and live in Canada. Nationality is where you live. Race however is where your family's to say the less "color" is from. Ethnic Background is where your family is from, which could be said that it is a branch leading up to race. For example the Irish are Caucasian. The Ethiopian are African., etc.

We're friends and all, but PLEASE take an anthropology class. African is not a race. Just like European is not a race. Just like Asian is not a race. The technical terms are Negroid, Mongoloid, Caucasoid, ect...

[Isidour]

who cares about the race or the skin color? we are talking about humans

I´m a mexican, and even when I´m white and red haired I´m still being a mexican, not another thing,so calling
"Little Red..." or any negro person African is not quite correct.

By the way why do you call them color-people?
I mean, when a negro is cold is black, a gringo(the whitey classical stereotype)when is cold is blue
When a negro is sick, he´s black;but when a gringo is sick, he´s green;
when a negro is angry, he´s black;but the gringo is red
When a negro is chocking or he doesn´t have air he´s black;but the gringo is purple.

So who is really the colored-people?

[MadonnasManOne]

For years, the devastation that New Orleans, in particular, could face, should a significant storm hit, has been known.

In fact, the following link takes you to an article from July 18, 2005, talking about the devastation that could come to New Orleans.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/artic ... rleans.htm

It's just so sad to see these people, homeless, who have lost their loved ones, and not have anything left.

My heart goes out to EVERYONE who has to endure this horrible tragedy!

[Siren]

*sighs* Well, since some want to believe that race isn't an issue in the distraught areas....

http://www.snopes.com/photos/katrina/looters.asp

Take note how the black man is "looting" and the white couple are "finding".

[castleinthesky]

Again, you are mistaken. I am talking about the race, not nationality. There is a difference. For example, you can be African and live in the United Kingdom. You can be Caucasian and live in Ethiopia. You can be Asian and live in Canada. Nationality is where you live. Race however is where your family's to say the less "color" is from. Ethnic Background is where your family is from, which could be said that it is a branch leading up to race. For example the Irish are Caucasian. The Ethiopian are African., etc.

We're friends and all, but PLEASE take an anthropology class. African is not a race. Just like European is not a race. Just like Asian is not a race. The technical terms are Negroid, Mongoloid, Caucasoid, ect...

Dude, I know those terms, when I type things it become confusing, and if I would of added that in I would of been too confusing to understand.

By the way, discussion that I have do not effect my friendship which other users, because people have different opinions.

[Taleeya]

Yeah, I'm sure race was no factor in the President's lack of caring. I can't imangine White people being left on the roofs of there houses for 5 days with no food or water. You White people have no idea how those images make us feel.

You know, as someone pointed out earlier, its a human issue. Seeing ANY human being suffer the way those hurricane survivors are, should break EVERY one's hearts. I think most people are feeling quite horrible about it.

We're friends and all, but PLEASE take an anthropology class. African is not a race. Just like European is not a race. Just like Asian is not a race. The technical terms are Negroid, Mongoloid, Caucasoid, ect...

Wow, I can just imagine the reactions of some of my friends if I called them 'negroids'.....eeek

I also don't use African-Canadian, since most of my friends who are black are from Jamaica (or another caribbean island).

[castleinthesky]

I also don't use African-Canadian, since most of my friends who are black are from Jamaica (or another caribbean island).

Don't want to sound mean or rude, but how do you think that the Jamaicans were originally black? They wern't. They were Native Americans, until the Europeans came to Jamaica and killed many of the Natives due to smallpox. The Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and later the French and British brought slaves from Africa to work in Jamaica and other areas. That's how the Carribbean population got mainly black.

[eeyore_luva]

i feel really sorry for the people who expeirenced it because the lost everything

[Prince Eric]

We're friends and all, but PLEASE take an anthropology class. African is not a race. Just like European is not a race. Just like Asian is not a race. The technical terms are Negroid, Mongoloid, Caucasoid, ect...

Wow, I can just imagine the reactions of some of my friends if I called them 'negroids'.....eeek

I also don't use African-Canadian, since most of my friends who are black are from Jamaica (or another caribbean island).

That's just it, average people do not use the correct terms, and we don't need to. Only America seems to be concerned with race. In lay-man's terms, we use white, race, and Asian. Those are the races.

[Isidour]

if we follow the idea of black=African; then what we call "Americans"--or gringos--should be called British or German?

Because the white people came first from Great Britian, and many of them were criminals and poor people

[Little Red Henski]

You forgot to mention they were also religious fanatics. Funny thing is the United States government called Mexico racist not too long ago. Now the whole world saw the way the US government threats Black people.

[Isidour]

well, we are kind of racist, but when the times are dark and the missfortune falls over someone we help.

And the most racist we can be is to make fun but not really meaning to hate or something, most of all, the Mexican´s really nemesis is the Chilango, a mexican who lives on the DF(what Washington would be in the US)and isbecause they belive they´re better than everyne else.

By the way, did someone heard the news about what Bush said? that he would make an investigation to look for the main reason the help wasn´t sended as fast it was needed...

Hey Bushy, wake up and smell the cofee, listen the radio or watch the TV. Everyone in th whole world know the reason and the guilty of this...

[Little Red Henski]

I'm sure Bush will handle this the same way he handled that CIA leaker and trader Karl Rove.

[Isidour]

Yep....that´s your president...

I wonder if the guys who voted for him still that happy

[Little Red Henski]

Bush Team Tries to Pin Blame on Local Officials.

[Isidour]

ok, there we can read that 46% of the interviewed awnsered that they were satissfied of the way Bush handeled this disaster...


Please tell me that it wasn´t on their minds something like"ok, it just color-people and beaggers; give them some days so some of then die, anyway, I´m ok..."

[Isidour]

Hey! did you see!?

The superdome will be demolished because of all the damage it recieved because of the hurricane.

So bye bye superdome

[Little Red Henski]

Warnings Went Ignored as Bush Slashed Flood Defence to Pay for War.

[Siren]

This is a sad, bittersweet story...having a 6 year old myself, I try to fathom this...

A child in charge of `6 babies' By Ellen Barry Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
Tue Sep 6, 9:40 AM ET

In the chaos that was Causeway Boulevard, this group of refugees stood out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old, surrounded by five toddlers who followed him around as if he were their leader.

They were holding hands. Three of the children were about 2, and one was wearing only diapers. A 3-year-old girl, who wore colorful barrettes on the ends of her braids, had her 14-month-old brother in tow. The 6-year-old spoke for all of them, and he told rescuers his name was Deamonte Love.

Thousands of human stories have flown past relief workers in the last week, but few have touched them as much as the seven children who were found wandering together Thursday at an evacuation point in downtown New Orleans.

In the Baton Rouge headquarters of the rescue operation, paramedics tried to coax their names out of them; nurses who examined them stayed up that night, brooding.

Transporting the children alone was "the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, knowing that their parents are either dead" or that they had been abandoned, said Pat Coveney, a Houston emergency medical technician who put them into the back of his ambulance and drove them out of New Orleans.

"It goes back to the same thing," he said. "How did a 6-year-old end up being in charge of six babies?"

Children reported missing

So far, parents displaced by flooding have reported 220 children missing, but that number is expected to rise, said Mike Kenner of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which will help reunite families.

"When my kids were little I used to lose them in Target, so it's not hard for me to believe," said Nanette White, press secretary for the Louisiana Department of Social Services. "Sometimes little kids just wander off. They're there one second and you blink and they're gone."

At the rescue headquarters, Deamonte volunteered his vital statistics. He said his father was tall and his mother was short. He gave his address, his phone number and the name of his elementary school.

He said the 5-month-old was his brother, Darynael, and that two others were his cousins, Tyreek and Zoria. The other three lived in his apartment building.

The children were clean and healthy--downright plump in the case of the infant, said Joyce Miller, a nurse who examined them. It was clear, she said, that "time had been taken with those kids."

All evening Thursday, volunteer Ron Haynes carried one of the 2-year-old girls back and forth, playing with her until she was calm enough to eat dinner.

"This baby child was terrified," he said. "After she relaxed, it was gobble, gobble, gobble."

Late the same night, they got an encouraging report: A woman in a shelter in Thibodaux, about 45 miles west of New Orleans, was searching for seven children. People in the building started clapping at the news. But when they got the mother on the phone, it became clear that she was looking for a different group, said Sharon Howard, assistant secretary of the office of public health.

"What that made me understand was that this was happening across the state," she said. "That kind of frightened me."

The children were transferred to a shelter operated by the Department of Social Services, with rooms full of toys and cribs where mentors from the Big Buddy Program were on hand day and night. For the next two days, the staff did detective work.

One of the 2-year-olds steadfastly refused to say her name until a worker took her picture with a digital camera and showed it to her. The little girl pointed at it and cried out, "Gabby!" One of the boys had a G printed on his T-shirt when he arrived; when volunteers started calling him G, they noticed that he responded.

Deamonte began to give more details to Derrick Robertson, a 27-year-old Big Buddy mentor: How he saw his mother cry when he was loaded onto the helicopter. How he promised her he would take care of his little brother.

Late Saturday, they found Deamonte's mother, who was in a shelter in San Antonio along with the four mothers of the other five children. Catrina Williams, 26, saw her children's pictures on a Web site set up over the weekend by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. By Sunday, a private plane from Angel Flight waited to take the children to Texas.

In a phone interview, Williams said she is the kind of mother who doesn't let her children out of her sight. What happened, she said, was that her family, trapped in a New Orleans apartment building, began to feel desperate.

Wrenching moment

The water wasn't going down, and they had been living without light, food or air conditioning for four days. The baby needed milk and the milk was gone. So she decided they would evacuate by helicopter. When a helicopter arrived, they were told to send the children first and that the helicopter would be back in 25 minutes.

It was a wrenching moment. Williams' father, Adrian Love, told her to send the children ahead.

"I told them to go ahead and give them up, because me, I would give my life for my kids. They should feel the same way," said Love, 48.

The helicopter didn't come back.

While the children were transported to Baton Rouge, their parents wound up in Texas. Days passed without contact. On Sunday, Williams was elated.

"All I know is I just want to see my kids," she said. "Everything else will just fall into place."

At 3 p.m. Sunday, social workers said goodbye to the children who now had names: Deamonte Love; Darynael Love; Zoria Love and her brother Tyreek. The girl who cried "Gabby!" was Gabrielle Janae Alexander. The girl they called Peanut was Degahney Carter. And the boy whom they called G was actually Lee--Leewood Moore Jr.

The children were strapped into car seats and driven to an airport for the flight to San Antonio to rejoin their parents. Deamonte was hanging on to Robertson's neck so desperately that Robertson decided, at the last minute, to ride with him as far as Lafayette.

Robertson said he doubted the children would remember much of the evacuation, or the smell of the flooded city.

"I think what's going to stick with them is that they survived Hurricane Katrina," he said. "And that they were loved."

[davina]

What a story. I'm glad it had a happy ending and the children are safe with their parents. I've watched several stories on tv about this disaster and, no matter what color the people are, what happened after the storm never should have here in America.