Just wondering ....
.... if the awful disaster in America had been a Hollywood Movie would they have had so many black actors in the lead roles?
[Update] Katryn has some stats and Doc holds out some hope
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Euan, this sounds awfully snarky. Maybe I've lost my sense of humor, but the situation is so grim...
Posted by: Pascale Soleil | September 02, 2005 at 05:36 PM
I wasn't trying to be funny.
One of things that has stuck us most in the UK is how it looks like the rich got out and the poor got left and that divide seems very much based on race.
Posted by: Euan | September 02, 2005 at 05:49 PM
Agreed.
From the news footage I've seen, the constant suggestion (hit home with a sledge hammer) is this is to do with race. I may be wrong, but I can't imagine the same lax aid response if it occured in Boston, or for even more racial polarity, Beverly Hills, for example.
Posted by: Gary Turner | September 02, 2005 at 06:07 PM
I find it heartening to see others share my observations. I posted about this, and the comments left so far by other (white) Americans continue to insist that poverty is not apportioned racially in this country. I spoke a coworker, a black woman originally from New Orleans, today and asked her about this. She diplomatically replied that this was evidence of wishful thinking.
Posted by: Kathryn | September 02, 2005 at 11:20 PM
Of course poverty is tilted non-white in this country. And the population of New Orleans, a very poor city overall, was 67% black.
Its absolutely criminal that people weren't evacuated, and aren't helped in a timely fashion. No argument at all with any of this.
It was just the Hollywood reference that jarred me.
Posted by: Pascale Soleil | September 03, 2005 at 04:47 PM
It was meant to.
It is the contrasts that exist in your country between the super rich and the super poor combined with the powerful, Hollywood generated mythology under which you live that fascinate me.
Posted by: Euan | September 03, 2005 at 05:42 PM