Just take it for what it is worth. One persons viewpoint (but they are there)

This note is from a girl who I work with named Robin. She's in Louisiana

and amid all the turmoil there.





Here's her note:

** We have had a battery operated TV so we've been getting local

channels

focusing on the situation there and here. I'm just getting the "national

perspective" and its *(&*&(*ing me off!

First, this is not a racial thing. I'm sorry if all the reporters are

seeing are black faces but if they would

take their cameras to places like Slidell, Mandeville, Metairie and

CHALMETTE! they would see a several thousand white faces being affected

by this. Most of the tip of the boot that is Louisiana south and east of

Baton Rouge is under water. Those people are stuck too waiting for help,

dying, but all the news people can focus on is the Superdome.

Another misconception. The violence going on there is not the reaction

of

desperate people. Its typical New Orleans on any given Tuesday!!! Its a

dangerous, dirty, drug infested place where the city police and city

government is corrupt and useless. Volunteers are getting shot at and

their cars vandalized. Helicopters are being shot at. Just another day

in the city.

Another misconception. These poor people couldn't get out because they

don't have cars. If the cameras show the city once the waters recede,

you'll notice all the flooded out cars littering the streets. They

couldn't all have been broken down before the storm hit . Yes, there are

always people who do not have transportation. Part of making the call

for a MANDATORY evacuation is that the city has to provide for

transportation and/or shelter in the city. People stayed for the same

reasons they always stay. They think the storm will turn and go in

another direction. They think they can "ride it out." Or, they're just

too (*&( lazy to pack up and leave.

Another misconception. The federal government was slow to respond. The

president issued a state of emergency BEFORE the storm ever hit,

unprecedented. This means that the full access of the federal

government, be it military or civil, were at our governors' disposal.

The levee broke early Monday afternoon. She did not call evacuation

until Tuesday morning. You cannot call up National Guard units in 20

minutes. It takes time. The

governor and mayor are in high CYA mode at the moment. The situation is

bad here. Crime is becoming a problem in Gonzales and Baton Rouge where

the evacuees are being housed. We live between the two cities and there

is pistol on my desk shelf as a type (yes, I know how to

use it). Helicopters flying overhead all day, gas is running out, stores

shelves becoming empty. Its like a war zone. Our kids are both here and

are staying here until the crime situation gets in control and I fear it

will get worse before it gets better. Pray for us. ** SO, that's all I'm

asking. SEND this to your friends and right now say a

prayer for the people going through this whole catastrophe. Thanks.

Sounds like a typical paranoid white person's perception when they are the minority...........

Intersting. I'm not necessarily talking about current events but it seems to me that media over takes a biased view on things, it's like news companies there have opinions.



Mark

but no, that couldnt be, the all knowing media cant be biased

[quote name='inanimate_object' date='Sep 9 2005, 04:55 PM'] it's like news companies there have opinions.



Mark


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lol its funny to see an outsider's perspective.



our media here is SO opinionated. i hate them, with a passion, forever, until i or they die.



hopefully its them first.



kevin.

I didn't read it cause Im too drunks was it good? Mayt be I 'll read is in the mornings wowo.

The media is all about ratings they will report whatever they think they will get more viewers with.