Posted by alexandra_k on November 3, 2005, at 16:08:00
In reply to Re: the Ministry of Propaganda » alexandra_k, posted by AuntieMel on November 3, 2005, at 9:56:08
> Many who see the film clips assume that "black" equals "poor" and assume because the shots show more stranded black people than white people then it must be racist and classist.
> But - New Orleans is majority (67%) black. It only makes sense that the people in the film clips were also mostly black.I never mentioned skin colour.
I only mentioned economic status.> And Dinah is right about neighborhoods. The ones I see on TV that were most devistated were either neighborhoods of newer larger homes or areas of older 'gentrified' homes.
Yeah. Are we likely to have more sympathy for a flooded tenement or a flooded 'gentrified' house?
> You can't always believe what you see on TV. In fact, you *usually* can't believe what you see on TV.I know that. Haven't seen anything on TV about this actually. Read a little of the paper.
Poverty.
I would be interested to know whether aid would have been sent faster if the earning potential of the AVERAGE person in there had been higher.
I would be interested to know whether the engineers would have been sent in to prevent this if New Orleans didn't have such high rates of poverty in the place to start with.
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