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That is a bit interesting isn’t it?

One persons finds something at a grocery store while the other has looted it…?

I have to ask how you ‘find’ anything at a grocery store?

The looting, and ‘finding’ for that matter, is imo not criminal to an extent.

Things are needed for survival.

Considering the situation New Orleans and other cities find themselves in, ‘finding’ food at a grocery store is not a criminal act.

Finding a new stero at Circut City, some rings at a jewlery store, that is criminal.

You do not need those things to survive where as you do need food and you simply aren’t going to find an open market at which to purchase food.

I don’t care what color you are.

If you are in New Orleans or a similarly devestaed area and you find/loot the Windixie for food, then you are not a thief.

If you are in New Orleans or a similarly devestaed area and you find/loot Circut City, you are a criminal be you you black, white, brown….

I can’t even imagine the devastation everyone affected by this is feeling. I honestly can’t say what I would do in the same situation…I think a million things would be running through my head such as “maybe I can take this jewelry and sell it to make a new start somewhere else”….I don’t know. I think the desperation reaches unprecedented levels and even a person who wasn’t inclined to steal before feels a sense of entitlement due to the loss of everything they had. In a perfect world it isn’t right, but we here behind the blogosphere aren’t homeless with potentially dead family members floating in the mire. I. just. don’t. know.

I applaud your post. Although I am certain that I did receive the e-mail you mentioned from the actual originator, I did receive it. All it takes is for one person to send it to 5 or more and it will, without a doubt, spread — just like gossip. I agree with you, let’s focus on doing what we can to help those who are in need, whether it be a donation of money or a donation of our time and/or much needed food, clothing & other necessities.

If we focus on food, clothing, and the other extras that are needed while faiing to critically analyze the deeper picture, such as the hypocrisy behind the relief efforts, we will play right into the plans that those “controlling elites” have for depopulating Blacks from this society, while they concomitantly use this land to carry out the New World Order agenda. I’ve heard much about fundraising and lay personell assisting our people; however, what bothers me is the lack of urgency the power brokers are showing. Did Bush bring up fundraising during the efforts to “liberate” Iraq? No. He immediately demanded over 80 billion dollars be sent to that effort at modern-day imperialism. The situation on my homefront of Lousiana is similar to the situation in Africa– A disrespected people forced into such dire situations that genocidal effects could result. My people, please don’t be duped by the racist hypocrisy that prevails; please critically analyze and help to put pressure on the “leader” of the “richest country in the world” to fix, not investigate, the situation down in the hub of Blacks in this country– the South. If Southern Black population is affected the entire Black population in this country is affected because it is the soutth that is the home of our people in this country. We must, just as those men and women before us, demand respect. Fundraising want fix this problem; this is a chance for those who receive our tax dollars to put their money where their mouth is; if not, we could be witnessing the beginning of another civil war– the framework of this country.

This response is to “Hen”: You’re saying not to focus on “food, clothes and extras” And “fundraising won’t fix this” My suggestion, don’t tell that to the people in the Gulf states right now, you see, it may cause more violent behavior, this time toward YOU. Those people need food, clothes and all the extras that they can get and it takes fund raising to do it. So “Hen” think before you speak…think. But then I guess it is real easy to tell people to come against the “establishment” when we are sitting in our dry ,comfortable homes, with food in the fridge and a dry bed to sleep in.

If you really care about the people down there, put aside YOUR agenda and think of helping them with what they really need right now.