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Originally posted by Hakan@Sep 3 2005, 10:45 AM
Can you explain that statement Snakeeye?
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Certantly. The other poster was insinuating that the response to the disaster in NOLA would have been considerably better if the majority of the trapped people were white. An accusation that racism played a significant role in the speed of the response.
The implied statement is that those in power are racists. The further implication is that those in power are
white, as there is no reason to expect that black leaders would be racist against blacks.
The accusation that the response was slow because of racism is being made based on the presumed skin colour of those in charge only.
Would you not agree that judging a person, or making accusations based only on skin colour is racist?