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<blockquote data-quote="Dale Carter" data-source="post: 545637" data-attributes="member: 59785"><p>Jose - I was addressing the people who are running New Orleans for the last thirty or so years and the contention that they suffered because of racism. My point is, how are they the victims of institutional racism in the hurricane damage when the institutions that most directly govern their lives, and caused the effects of Katrina to be magnified, are of the same race and elected by the poor of New Orleans?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>New Orleans is more than 65% black. I am not making generaliations about blacks, but, rather, you can't cry disenfranchisment and powerlessness when you have been running the show for 30+ years.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>BTW, your comments regarding the availability of education and opportunity beg the question of those who came from the same circumstances and succeeded beyond them. The succesful ones made choices and the disfunctional made choices, they just made different choices. Just as my affluent white school system produced winners and losers, due to their personal choices. Just as I watched kids flunk out of college becasue they were partying instead of studying. Know any rich people with loser relatives/kids? I sure do, it's all about choices. Study for school or hit the crack pipe? Stay in school or have a baby with some guy who will vanish with the wind? Drive drunk or call someone/wait it out? Cuss your boss out or bite your tounge? Go to work or call in "sick" to calm your hangover? Smoke a joint and get drug tested or politely refuse? It's all about choices and it ain't rocket science.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dale Carter, post: 545637, member: 59785"] Jose - I was addressing the people who are running New Orleans for the last thirty or so years and the contention that they suffered because of racism. My point is, how are they the victims of institutional racism in the hurricane damage when the institutions that most directly govern their lives, and caused the effects of Katrina to be magnified, are of the same race and elected by the poor of New Orleans? New Orleans is more than 65% black. I am not making generaliations about blacks, but, rather, you can't cry disenfranchisment and powerlessness when you have been running the show for 30+ years. BTW, your comments regarding the availability of education and opportunity beg the question of those who came from the same circumstances and succeeded beyond them. The succesful ones made choices and the disfunctional made choices, they just made different choices. Just as my affluent white school system produced winners and losers, due to their personal choices. Just as I watched kids flunk out of college becasue they were partying instead of studying. Know any rich people with loser relatives/kids? I sure do, it's all about choices. Study for school or hit the crack pipe? Stay in school or have a baby with some guy who will vanish with the wind? Drive drunk or call someone/wait it out? Cuss your boss out or bite your tounge? Go to work or call in "sick" to calm your hangover? Smoke a joint and get drug tested or politely refuse? It's all about choices and it ain't rocket science. [/QUOTE]
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