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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (108230)	9/9/2005 12:29:07 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I did not in fact think that was a good essay, Alan, although I understand why you might have. I think the entire story of the looters in New Orleans has been grossly exaggerated. They were a very small percentage of the people left homeless by the hurricane, and it looks like a lot of them were probably people who were in jail until everything was flooded. I have read various reports recently about how people were quietly let out of jails, for wont of anything better to do with them. If you watch all the television interviews of people in the shelters, they are mostly just poor people trying to take care of their families the same way we do, with fewer resources and the worst school system in America not educating them well enough to make inroads into the middle class. Poverty is systemic in the Gulf Coast. I don't think you could ever really put yourself enough in those peoples' shoes to imagine how different it is for them than it is for you. And I think that this is the difference between "conservatives" and "liberals." Liberals, who may be quite wealthy themselves, have the ability somehow to sympathize and empathize and believe in things like all babies and children being properly nourished and educated. YOu now, the old "equal opportunity" cliche, "leveling the playing field" and all that. I think your article demonizes and stereotypes and is, all in all, a very negative piece. I also think it is meanspirited to make fun of Hollywood stars who are contributing huge sums of money to help, as they did during the tsunami. How much are George Bush and Dick Cheney contributing? They are both independently very wealthy men. How about Tom DeLay?