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Originally posted by Cowperson
Its only about a month since the CN derailment at Wabamum Lake near Edmonton, where toxic chemicals were spilled into the lake and where the lateness and confusion of the response from CN Rail and provincial officials drew substantial criticism.
So far, to my knowledge, no resident of Lake Wabamum has accused the President of CN Rail or Premier Klein of racism.
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how can you compare this at all? Wabamum Lake isn't a community full of impoverished black people. What's going on in NO and Wabumum are far too different to compare.
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Meanwhile, red neck Texas has taken in over 200,000 mostly black refugees and the white governor has said children will be taken into Texas schools without reservation.
Meanwhile, thousands of white Texas volunteers are working at places like the Houston Astrodome to provide shelter for blacks.
Meanwhile, in the early hours of the disaster, white helicopter pilots and crews were risking their lives rescuing people in difficult situations.
Just because a black man says its racism doesn't automatically make it so. . . . . its a statement that should be questioned and weighed against the facts in this instance. The author of the statement may in fact be offering a racist point of view himself. Not all racists are WASP's.
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Kanye West said "George Bush doesn't care about black people." He didn't say that all of the white volunteers, white pilots, white governer and red neck Texans are racist. His comment implied that the efforts would have been faster and the media imagery would have been different if the victims were mostly white. how you have managed to bring all of these other white people into that argument is beyond me.
