Looting in New Orleans

Read what this guy says.

Black people in New Orleans should be made to understand that the whole world is watching. Any racism people may have is being justified every time they turn on their televisions. If you thought turning around the situation in the black community was tough then, wait until the Democrats you know and love so well, have to explain to their white constituents why they'll need to provide additional tax money to help. And when the plea is balked at, don't blame racism. Don't blame Republicans. Don't blame black conservatives who have moved on. Blame yourselves.

As a native New Orleanian I am sick when I see what is happening to my poor city. But poverty did not impel these people to steal anything beyond water and food. Justifying the theft as a proper reaction to poverty and racism only encourages the "it's not my fault and I'm not responsible for anything that I do" attitude that will keep many poor blacks locked in a cycle of poverty.

Last week Jesse Jackson took the time to stroke a neo-communist strongman's ego in Venezuala, something that has nothing to do with the US Civil Rights struggle. This week, in face of story after story showing laughing, smiling blacks looting at will, he is nowhere to be seen.

Leadership means standing up when times are tough and decisions are unpopular. It's time for the black community's leadership (self-proclaimed, by the way, and claiming to stand for a mythical single black America) to demonstate leadership and condemn theft, robbery and murder in the strongest possible terms and not hide behind the same tired slogans.