You're a Racist

I don't know where to start. You're a racist. And a coward. And an attention-whore. You're that asshole little kid who hits people just so the teacher will turn around to look at her.

I guess there is a level of comfort to be had from the fact that you admitted that your words were nothing more than ill-willed rhetoric spewed from a rambling madwoman. I can only hope you've fried your brain to such an extent that you can no longer put together rational thoughts. This isn't true, though. I know why you do it.

You do it because it's what you worked so hard to become, and you can't stand the thought of losing it. So you wake up in the morning and you start looking at news coverage of the hurricane. You look past the people helping people, black helping white and white helping black. That's not important. You look past the grief, the white people who've lost family members to raging currents and the black people who haven't seen their loved ones since their houses were ripped in two. That doesn't matter.

And then you see it. Looting. Your eyes grow wide. And even better: Black people looting. Your insides jump for joy. You found it. This is "controversial." This is "politically incorrect." This allows you to keep that persona you've worked so hard to maintain, this lets you be some distorted version of a heroic rebel, forever fighting against the shackles of a PC world. You should wear a cape.

So you say your piece, and then you sit back and wait for everyone to pat you on the back for "saying what everyone else is afraid to." We're not afraid to; we're too intelligent to. We pause for two seconds to think before we open our mouths. We don't call on the KKK to come solve our problems.

It's pathetic how you can look at tragedy and see nothing but color.

You ask questions with one answer and pretend you've given us a choice. Asking someone to justify black people looting is like me asking you to justify white school shooters or white serial killers. You can't, but not because I threw race in there. You can't because you can't justify murder or looting, regardless of who does it. You'll say that you've seen more black people looting than white people. That's fine. But until I see the certificate declaring you God, and annointing you with the power of omniscience, what you see remains what you (an angry, needy, attention-craving egotist) sees.

I've seen a lot of white CEO's screw a lot of people out of a lot of money. I've seen a lot of white serial killers kill a lot of people. Justify that. Why do white people steal? Why do white people kill? And don't try to come here telling me other races do it too...I haven't seen them, so they don't exist.

It's amazing that with all your focus on color, you completely miss the fact that everyone in Louisiana bleeds red and cries clear. Your vision's a little limited, I guess.

The very phrasing of your question suggests its racist undertones, and the racist answer that you seek. Why do black people loot? How about "Why do people loot?" Forget it, you don't care about that. You only care about why black people loot. Fine. Since you care about that, that means you think there's some sort of difference between black people and other people. And you already discounted all social, economic, and environmental explanations. So that means, you think there is some fundamental, inborn difference between races that explains why black people loot while all others sit atop the chapel, reading the Bible and praying to the Almighty to end the deluge. So there must be something about black people that makes them loot, which is bad. Consequently, black people must be inferior to all of the other non-looting races, right?

It's pathetic how you use tragedy to try to soothe your wounded racial egotism.

By the way, I noticed that you refrained from answering the very question that you posed. That's where the word coward comes in. If you're going to be politically incorrect, have the guts to put yourself out there. So far, you've just poured the blood in the water and watched the sharks feed. Jump in, coward. Tell me: Why do black people loot?

It's sad how you have to constantly piss yourself off to be happy. It's pathetic that out of all the good that's happened in New Orleans, out of all the aid and help and cooperation, the only thing you can manage to see through your blinders is the means to foster conflict. Don't you bitch at liberals every day for refusing to see the progress in Iraq, for constantly setting sights exclusively on the loss of life and the death of soldiers and the failures of the administration? What the fuck are you doing?

You're writing about how black people are the only ones looting. You're fostering an environment that would say "Fuck the black victims of the hurricane, the ones that lost their homes and families and sit side by side with the white refugees, because if they had the chance, they'd be out there looting too." You're saying "We don't need to help those black people, those damn future-looters. We should concentrate on the white people, the race that knows it's wrong to loot."

Fuck you.

You're a hypocritical, cowardly, egotistical racist.