It Is a Race Thing

Anyone who has been to New Orleans can tell that despite of its charm, good food, and carefree lifestyle it's a sad, sad place. There are streets that are scary to walk down, and the majority of the population lives below the poverty line.

It's sad because before all of this, NOLA was raking in the dough. Mardi Gras alone probably brought a billion dollars into the city. Then there were conventions, festivals, tourism, the shipping ports, and even more.

So it's really no surprise that the people left behind are the poorest of the poor, mostly black. And fat. Is anyone else noticing this? It's like all the fat people couldn't get out of NOLA. Very odd.

I've only been watching CNN and ABC so I can honestly say they haven't been discriminating in their coverage of the looting. In the beginning when it was about food and water, they were trying to make us understand. But when talking heads say that we're focusing too much on the looting because it's blacks doing it . . . sorry. You're wrong. It's because we can't understand why groups of armed men are raping women and now children. We can't understand why someone would break in to a house to steal jewelry or a store for a plasma tv.