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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan+Sep 3 2005, 01:32 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Displaced Flames fan @ Sep 3 2005, 01:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Snakeeye@Sep 3 2005, 05:30 AM
The American attitude towards race is often fascinating - including and especially the attitudes of black people themselves.
Until people started playing the race card, I honestly had no idea that all of the video CNN, CBC, FOX and everyone else was showing was of predominantley black people who were suffering.
All I saw were people suffering.
I didn't even notice their colour.
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Exactly. And NOBODY should notice the color. [/b][/quote]
I don't know about where you live DFF, but here in the South, race is very much a part of who you are. In my city, the communities are seperate, the schools are seperate, the type of jobs they take are seperate, the accents are very different, the social events in the city are completely segregated, you name it. There are 2 very different cultures living completely seperately. It is something people who don't live here can't understand really. And really no one on either side is putting much of an effort to change it.
The people are treated differently by all levels of authority. I have no doubt that in a disaster here, the police would think of the blacks as looters, and the whites as taking what they needed. I have no doubt that a crisis in a middle class white neighbourhood would be treated much differently than one in a poor black neighbourhood. There are some black people who put a good deal of efforts to disassociate themselves from the stigma their skin colour bears around here. The level of segregration in the south would shock many from the north, and it is completely fair to be suspicious if they are being treated differently because the are poor black people from the south. It's not just skin colour, it's their community that gets treated poorly.