On Katrina "racism"

[dilloduck]

I received this in an e-mail so I can only source the author, sorry.

by Rabbi Aryeh Spero
Posted Sep 7, 2005

In New Orleans, beginning Tuesday morning, August 30, I saw men in helicopters risking their lives to save stranded flood victims from rooftops. The rescuers were White, the stranded Black. I saw Caucasians navigating their small, private boats in violent, swirling, toxic floodwaters to find fellow citizens trapped in their houses. Those they saved were Black.

I saw Brotherhood. New York Congressman Charlie Rangel saw Racism.

Yes, there are Two Americas. One is the real America, where virtually every White person I know sends money, food or clothes to those in need -- now and in other crises -- regardless of color. This America is colorblind.

The other is the America fantasized and manufactured by Charlie Rangel, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who constantly cry "racism!" even in situations where it does not exist, even when undeniable images illustrate love, compassion and concern. These three men, together with today's NAACP, want to continue the notion of Racist America. It is their Mantra, their calling card. Their power, money, and continued media appearances depend on it.

Often, people caught up in accusing others of sin neglect to undergo their own personal introspection. They begin to think they alone inhabit the moral high ground. It is high time these men peered into their own hearts at the dark chamber that causes this unceasing labeling of their fellow Americans as "racist." They may find in that chamber their own racism -- against Whites.

There is only one real America. Beginning Friday morning in Houston, thousands of regular citizens poured into the Astrodome offering water, food, clean clothes, personal items, baby diapers and toys, love and even their homes to the evacuees who had been bused in from New Orleans. Most of the givers were White, most of those being helped were Black. But there was Jesse Jackson, busy on TV,! accusin g the country of not putting Blacks -- i.e., him -- on some type of Commission he is demanding.

Where was he early in the week? Not sweating with others from around the country who had scraped their last dollar to come help. With Jesse, it's always about Jesse.

After decades of hearing accusations from Jesse, Al, Charlie, the NAACP and certain elitists about how racist America is, it would have been refreshing to hear them for once give thanks to those they for years have been maligning. These self-anointed spokesmen for the Black community lead only when it comes to foisting guilt and condemnation, and not when it comes to acknowledging the good in those they have made a career in castigating.

As a Rabbi I have a message I wish to offer to my fellow members of the cloth, Reverends Jackson and Sharpton: "It is time to do some soul searching. Your continued efforts to tear this country apart, even in light of the monumental goodness shown by your White brothers, is a sin."

There are no churches in the world like the American churches. And there are no better parishioners and members of churches anywhere in the world. These churches are saving the day. Their members -- infused by the special and singular teachings of our unique American Judeo-Christian understanding of the Bible -- are, at this moment, writing an historic chapter in giving, initiative, and selflessness. They are opening their homes to strangers. They are doing what government is incapable of doing.

America works because of its faith-based institutions. It always has. That is what makes it America.

So next time the ACLU tries to diminish and marginalize the churches, saying there is no role for religion in American public life, that an impenetrable wall must be erected separating the citizens from their faith, cry out "Katrina." Next time the ACLU goes to court asking that U.S. soldiers not be allowed to say Grace in the Mess Hall and that communities be forbidden from setting up a nativity scene, ask yourself: without the motivation of Goodness sourced in Faith, would people offer such sacrifice? Where else does this Brotherhood come from but the Bible which teaches "Thou Shall Love Thy Neighbor as Yourself."

I saw brotherhood on Fox News, where 24/7 reporters used their perch as a clearing-house for search-and-rescue missions and communication between the stranded and those in position to save. In contrast, the Old-line networks continued with their usual foolish, brain-numbing programming. Those who always preach "compassion" chose profit over people.

The New York Times has utterly failed America. Its columnists could have used their talents and word skills to inspire and unite a nation. Columnists such as Frank Rich and Paul Krugman, however, revealed their true colors by evading their once-in-a-lifetime chance to help and instead chose to divide, condemn, and fuel the fires and poison the waters of Louisiana. In them, I saw no Brotherhood. The newspaper always preaching "compassion" verifies Shakespeare's "They protest too much."

Similar elitists here in the northeast and on the West coast have over the years expressed their view of the South as "unsophisticated" and Texans as "cowboys." Well, the South has come through, especially Houston and other parts of Texas, whereas, as I write this on Labor Day, the limousine moralizers are lying on east and west coast beaches thinking they're doing their part by reading Times' editorials and calling George Bush "racist." How sanctimonious life becomes when pr! oving yo u are not a racist depends not on living in a truly integrated neighborhood, but by simply calling others racist.

Like so often in history, facts trump platitudes. Reality reigns. Those who always preach brotherhood, thus far have acted devoid of it. Those who for decades have been accused by elitists of not having compassion are the ones living it. They are: the churches, the military, and the sons and daughters of the South.

 

[Annie]

I received this in an e-mail so I can only source the author, sorry.

Here you go:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19582

 

[dilloduck]

Here you go:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19582

thanks!

 

[USMCDevilDog]

I agree with the author of the article, I hate it when they try to blame everything on racism, soooo annoying!

 

[dilloduck]

I agree with the author of the article, I hate it when they try to blame everything on racism, soooo annoying!

and SOOOOOOOooo untrue

 

[Annie]

I agree with the article and at the same time want to say some of the things I've read regarding 'racism' and 'savages.' Seems the media got almost all of this SOOOooo wrong. The 'savages' shooting at helos, were not aiming at the helos at all, rather shooting off guns to let them know they were there.

We all know about the 'rapes' etc. that weren't. No stacks of bodies at Superdome.

On the other hand, there wasn't racism involved in the rescue, since by the numbers or lack thereof, it's obvious most were saved and most were black.

 

[dilloduck]

I agree with the article and at the same time want to say some of the things I've read regarding 'racism' and 'savages.' Seems the media got almost all of this SOOOooo wrong. The 'savages' shooting at helos, were not aiming at the helos at all, rather shooting off guns to let them know they were there.

We all know about the 'rapes' etc. that weren't. No stacks of bodies at Superdome.

On the other hand, there wasn't racism involved in the rescue, since by the numbers or lack thereof, it's obvious most were saved and most were black.

no kidding---if the rescuers were racist a lot of blacks would have died.
why ever would a mayor predict such death and destruction?

 

[manu1959]

i would like to know why hurricane only targeted poor black people

 

[Annie]

i would like to know why hurricane only targeted poor black people

Obviously, the hurricanes were prejudiced.

 

[manu1959]

Obviously, the hurricanes were prejudiced.

we should call them KKKrackercanes.....

ill get me coat :fifty:

 

[USMCDevilDog]

I agree with the article and at the same time want to say some of the things I've read regarding 'racism' and 'savages.' Seems the media got almost all of this SOOOooo wrong. The 'savages' shooting at helos, were not aiming at the helos at all, rather shooting off guns to let them know they were there.

We all know about the 'rapes' etc. that weren't. No stacks of bodies at Superdome.

On the other hand, there wasn't racism involved in the rescue, since by the numbers or lack thereof, it's obvious most were saved and most were black.

I agree too, media messed up real bad this time around. I was so pissed off at that shit on the news, on the internet, shit coming out of celebs mouths (Kanye West) and just the general "It's because we're black". And then the media just amplifies that by saying the same thing and the celebs do it too and it turns the whole country into an entire racist arguement. AAAH, like I said, sooooo annoying!

This is 2005 people, not the 60's, stop living in the past!!!

 

[USMCDevilDog]

Obviously, the hurricanes were prejudiced.

Did any of you see my post entitled "Things I learned from the news in the past 8 days"? It's pretty funny and pretty true, here's the link:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25368

 

[Annie]

Did any of you see my post entitled "Things I learned from the news in the past 8 days"? It's pretty funny and pretty true, here's the link:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25368

Before there would have been an 'atta boy'. Good post, but I'm still waiting for the response on whether or not the gov't committed 9/11, in your opinion.

 

[USMCDevilDog]

Before there would have been an 'atta boy'. Good post, but I'm still waiting for the response on whether or not the gov't committed 9/11, in your opinion.

Posted my response immediately after I wrote that one up there. Go check.

 

[dilloduck]

Did any of you see my post entitled "Things I learned from the news in the past 8 days"? It's pretty funny and pretty true, here's the link:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25368

It's amazing how far whites have come----150 years ago blacks were property ---now whites are risking their lives to save em.

 

[USMCDevilDog]

It's amazing how far whites have come----150 years ago blacks were property ---now whites are risking their lives to save em.

Agreed. But I also think of it this way. 150 years ago, whites hated blacks and we were scolded for it...fair enough....nowadays, the majority of racism is from blacks to whites. I remember being taught something in early Elementary school that's been repeated to me my entire life, "Don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to you." Seems like most black people forgot how bad it was to feel hated and now they're doing it to people who had nothing to do with what happened to their ancestors.

 

[Annie]

Agreed. But I also think of it this way. 150 years ago, whites hated blacks and we were scolded for it...fair enough....nowadays, the majority of racism is from blacks to whites. I remember being taught something in early Elementary school that's been repeated to me my entire life, "Don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to you." Seems like most black people forgot how bad it was to feel hated and now they're doing it to people who had nothing to do with what happened to their ancestors.

Now you are just daring me to rep you! Not yet.

 

[USMCDevilDog]

Now you are just daring me to rep you! Not yet.

Awww pwetty please...

 

[manu1959]

Agreed. But I also think of it this way. 150 years ago, whites hated blacks and we were scolded for it...fair enough....nowadays, the majority of racism is from blacks to whites. I remember being taught something in early Elementary school that's been repeated to me my entire life, "Don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to you." Seems like most black people forgot how bad it was to feel hated and now they're doing it to people who had nothing to do with what happened to their ancestors.

it is called pay back and they feel they have earned the right

 

[Nuc]

Agreed. But I also think of it this way. 150 years ago, whites hated blacks and we were scolded for it...fair enough....nowadays, the majority of racism is from blacks to whites. I remember being taught something in early Elementary school that's been repeated to me my entire life, "Don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to you." Seems like most black people forgot how bad it was to feel hated and now they're doing it to people who had nothing to do with what happened to their ancestors.

Excellent theory. How long have you been in the Marines, my friend?