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To: Gut Trader who wrote (136898)	9/3/2005 2:44:28 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 793964

They've been converting them in the US prisons for decades.

To: Gut Trader who wrote (136898)	9/3/2005 5:49:44 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 793964

Media Mangles Story of Racial Implications in Disaster Response pasadenapundit.com Saturday Sept. 3, 2005 Photo of 200 school unused buses in New Orleans news.yahoo.com Some facts the Star News omitted in its story along with its many "outraged" letter writers: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is a Black-American. Almost all the New Orleans City Council are Black-Americans, reflecting the 67% black residents of New Orleans. The Sheriff is a Black-American. Major media reporter Geraldo reported that a large group of Vietnamese immigrant flood victoms of Hurricane Katrina refused any aid until everybody else was helped. Apparently, Vietnamese may be more accustomed in their culture to waiting out typhoons. Geraldo reported the Vietnamese were a "Sea of tranquility" among the chaos. No media coverage was given to the many "invisible" illegal immigrants from Mexico who presumably suffered equally through the hurricane. Neither Mayor Nagin nor Governor Blanco took the following actions which they should have: 1. Ordered evacuation of low-lying areas of New Orleans prior to onset of the hurricance. 2. Ordered martial law on day one. 3. Commandeered all the school buses to relocate people. The photo above shows 200 school buses sitting unused in New Orleans. Assuming 50 people in each bus, some 10,000 people could have been evacuated. A Black-American teenage hero, Jabbar Gibson, commandeered one of the buses himself and evacuated 50 people to Houston. Here is a picture of the heroic actions of Gibson: Media Invisible "All over the South WHITE people are taking BLACK people into their homes. Thousands of other WHITE Southerners are helping BLACK Southerners in many other ways, and yet...all the major media can do is try to make this a racial issue, when, in truth, this could be the South's finest hour. Just shameful." -- Post excerpted from The Locker Room, North Carolina. Friday Sept. 2, 2005