Text 12407, 49 rader
Skriven 2005-09-21 02:08:16 av Raymond Yates (1:3613/48)
  Kommentar till text 12381 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
Ärende: Cell phone cost
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 RW> 19 Sep 05 13:55, Raymond Yates wrote to Björn Felten:


 FS>>>> One question (and don't misinterpret this!):  What's the
 FS>>>> percent blacks in Holland?

 BF>>>    How can anyone misinterpret such an obvious insinuation?

 BF>>>    When will you eventually remove those shades of yours and
 BF>>> look outside your own village border? Over here we do *not* have
 BF>>> the same, open racism that you have in the US. Sure enough, we
 BF>>> have our share of bad apples here too, just as every other
 BF>>> country, but the major difference is, that we have zero
 BF>>> tolerance for it -- from the majority of the population all the
 BF>>> way up to the authorities.

 BF>>>    We have very strict laws against any kind of discrimination,
 BF>>> be it based on gender, sexual preferences or ethnic origin. If
 BF>>> for instance an employer here decides to hire a White Male
 BF>>> Christian, he'd pretty damn well must be prepared to prove, that
 BF>>> this Billy Boy really had better credentials than any female,
 BF>>> coloured and/or homosexual that applied for the same job, or
 BF>>> he'd be slammed with a hefty lawsuit so quickly, he'd think
 BF>>> twice before making the same decision a next time.

 BF>>>    So obviously we wouldn't dream of rounding up 25,000 poor,
 BF>>> black people, put them in a sports arena and then forget all
 BF>>> about them for five days, in the hope that nobody will notice
 BF>>> them.

 RY>> In fairness not all were poor, or black, but all were stranded..
 RY>> many people that were visiting New Orleans at staying the hotels
 RY>> were trapped there as well, lacking transportation out of town.

 RW> I read an Aussies account of having to stay in NO because of no
 RW> private or public transportation to get he and his family out. I don't
 RW> believe they were destitute, being tourists and all. They slept under
 RW> a freeway bridge for days, until rescuers came along.

Did you read the account of the hotel guests that scraped together 20,000 to
charter busses, and when they arrived FEMA commandeered them? They were stuck
for another week due to that..

What happened after that was brutal, simply put..

One has to wonder what would have happened when the busses arrived.

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