--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "vashtirama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Nope. > > > Are you saying it would have gone the same way if the convention > > > center were full of white people? > > > > Yes. > > FWIW, apparently several hundred people, mostly well- > to-do, who had been staying in a nearby hotel were > brought to the Superdome just as the bus evacuation > was beginning to really get underway, and were put on > buses ahead of all the folks who had been staying at > the Superdome and had been standing in line for many > hours--days, in some cases--to be evacuated. > > It really wasn't so much white people versus black > people, as well-to-do people versus poor people. > > Of course, most of the poor folks are black, and most > of the well-to-do are white. > > If that were reversed, and the people in the shelters > were poor white people, it would have gone the same way. > > It would *not* have gone the same way if the shelters > were full of well-to-do people, no matter what color > they were.
It's possible that this was payback for the buses that had been commandeered earlier. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
