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matthewmurcia · 09-05-2005, 05:12 AM

Given the abnormally large amount of photos published in the last week of poor black people stranded in football stadiums, looting shops and floating down New Orlean's new street-rivers, is America still that racist?

I mean still becuse I'd thought that racism in the US was a) a 19th century civil war slavery type problem or b) a 1960s civil rights, everybody should be allowed to sit on the same bus seats and drink from the same fountain type issue, both of which had been solved long ago and the US was today absolutely not a bastion for class based institutional racism but the home of democracy and the free, equal man (and woman): Have we seen a glimpse of the real America this week that wasn't predicted by the weathermen or desired by the politicians? Is America still so divded on the issues of race and money or are the images from New Orleans proof only of flooding and just happened to affect so many black people for some other reason?

09-05-2005, 05:12 AM	#1 (permalink)
matthewmurcia Contributing Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 76	Is the US racist? MOVED TO POLITICS Given the abnormally large amount of photos published in the last week of poor black people stranded in football stadiums, looting shops and floating down New Orlean's new street-rivers, is America still that racist? I mean still becuse I'd thought that racism in the US was a) a 19th century civil war slavery type problem or b) a 1960s civil rights, everybody should be allowed to sit on the same bus seats and drink from the same fountain type issue, both of which had been solved long ago and the US was today absolutely not a bastion for class based institutional racism but the home of democracy and the free, equal man (and woman): Have we seen a glimpse of the real America this week that wasn't predicted by the weathermen or desired by the politicians? Is America still so divded on the issues of race and money or are the images from New Orleans proof only of flooding and just happened to affect so many black people for some other reason?