Odd... CNN
Something seems off. I’m watching CNN right now and for the past 24 hours or so they’ve had a scroll on the left hand side of the screen, showing images of missing children of the Katrina fiasco. Why is it that when I watch footage of the Katrina refugees about 90% of them are black? And yet, somehow about 75% (well maybe half) of the children in the scroll bar are white? Maybe it’s just me being cynical.
posted by Nicholas @ 18.9.05
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I'm too cheap to subscribe to cable or satalite tv, so I don't get CNN. But Dixie sent me a slide show on people being rescued or trying to get to safety in New Orleans and I noticed that about half of them were white also. Whereas the news reels were showing predominately black people. So I wondered the same thing as you. It did occur to me later that when I was at UBC, we learned that even if a person has only a fraction of African blood in them, even if they look white, in the USA, they are still labeled as black. Could this be the reason?
Or am I being too kind?
Love Mom
wow looks like spam.
too kind. there were some white folk in mississippi who were devistated. but as for the chaos and confusion part of things, those 'left behind,'they were almost all black. the news footage of this brought up two serious, often overlooked, problems. one, the US will just leave people behind if they're black. and two, the poor people in america, and apparently especially in new orleans are dispoprtionately black.
if those slides had a bunch of white folk in them i would definately put into question the subconcious of whomever made the slideshow.
Your comment about them having just a bunch of white folks in them is confusing to me. I said about half were pictures of fair skined people! You seem unhappy that America's Most Wanted, the company responsible for the search and find for victims of Katrina, are showing white children on it? Yes in New Orleans itself the population is predominately black,and yes the majority of the poor are black, and yes that is what CNN shows in the news. I wonder if CNN also isn't biased in its depiction of the New Orleans disaster. Would it want to show white people looting? Perhaps they were looting. CNN is known for being in the hand of the government. A tool for getting the government's agenda to the public. As far as white children being on the child find scroll, I think all children should be helped to find their families, even the white children. As I said I don't get CNN so in the news I watch, most of the feel good human stories that I get out of Katerina are about African-Americans. And what our Canadians are doing to help.
Anyway they have another hurricane coming so we shall see what happens this time!
'Love Mom
This is to Dear Infatuation. I am worried about you. Your comments are usually very negative, not towards Charles but towards the issues being discussed. Why? Are you that pessimistic or are you that depressed? Do you have no hope? Or do you believe there is no hope for mankind?
Love Mom
To Charles and Dear Infatuation. How God sees the cold hearted.
Mosiah 16-27 (Book of Mormon:Another Testiment of Jesus Christ)
16) And also, ye yourselves will succor those that stand in need of your succor; ye will administer of your subsatance unto him that standeth in need; and ye will not suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to perish.
17) Perhaps thou shalt say: The man has brought upon himself his misery; therefore I will stay mine hand, and will not give unto him of my food, nor impart unto him of my substance that he may not suffer, for his punishments are just-
18) But I say unto you, O man, whosoever doeth this the same has great cause to repent; and except he repenteth of that which he hath done he perisheth forever, and hath not interest in the kingdom of God.
19) For behold are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend on the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have, for both food and raiment, and for gold, and for silver, and for all the riches we have of every kind?
20) And behold even at this time, ye have been calling on his name, and begging for a remission of your sins. And has he suffered that ye have begged in vain? Nay; he has poured out his spirit upon you, and has caused that your hearts should be filled with joy, and has caused that your mouths should be stopped that they could not find utterance, so exceedingly was your joy.
21) And now, if God, who has created you, on whom you are dependent for your lives and for all that you have and are, doth grant unto you whatsoever ye ask that is right, in faith, believing that ye shall receive, O then, how ye ought to impart of your substance that ye have one to another.
22) And if you judge the man who putteth up his petition to you for your substance that he perish not, and condemn him, how much more just will be your condemnation for withholding your substance, which doth not belong to you but to God, and to whom also your life belongeth; and yet ye put up no petition, nor repent of the thing which thou hast done.
23) I say unto you, wo be unto that man, for his substance shall perish with him; and now, I say these things unto those who are rich as pertaining to the things of this world.
24) And again, I say unto the poor, ye who have not and yet have sufficient, that ye remain from day to day; I mean all you who deny the beggar, because ye have not; I would that ye say in your hearts that: I give not because I have not, but if I had I would give.
25) And now, if ye say this in your hearts ye remain guiltless, otherwise ye are condemned; and your condemnation is just for you covet that which ye have not received.
26) And now, for the sake of these things which I have spoken unto you- that is, for the sake of retaining a remission of your sins from day to day, that ye may walk guiltless before God- I would that ye should impart of your substance to the poor, every man according to that which he hath, such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and administering to their relief, both spiritually and temporally, according to their wants.
27) And see that all these things are done in wisdom and order; for it is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength...
alright, mom you're missing the point. all children diserve to be found, only white kids more so than black? i don't think so.
as for being cold hearted, i assure you niether dear infatuation nor i are such.
finally, i didn't want to hve to go here, but you've forced me when you started quoting scripture - and the book of mormon of all texts! let's begin:
arguments have premises. those premises are supported by other premises and so on. if the premises are not excepted, the conclusion is invalid by inference. the scriptures are a valid argument if you accept certain premises. PREMISES I AND THIS SITE DO NOT ACCEPT. any scriptural quotes are esentially jibberish. present the information outside of "gods word" as support, and then it may have some validity.
knowing is justified belief. JUSTIFIED. again, the scriptures are not considered evidence in the support of anything because they rely on the premise that there is a god, and a christian-mormon one at that! even if they're right about something, without being justified they are simply coincidentaly correct, but not knowledge claims. i could claim, that there is life on saturn, and i may very well be right, but this is not knowledge. I would just be lucky.
further. while dear infatuation happens to be a christian, she will consider your book of mormon quote jibberish, i would consider a quote by her or you of the bible jibberish and yet we can all agree that people should be nice. there a more general unniversal truth behind this claim that makes it relevant to all. hence the need to bypass particulars: dogmas!
Dear Charles when I typed what God says to the cold hearted, I meant it for those who, if they could, do not help out those in need, lastest example the victims of Katrina that where not receiving the aid they needed. I didn't mean that you or Dear Infatuation were cold hearted. I included the above scripture because it has been my observation that people judge the Christion God, based on the behaviour of people who profess to be Christian, so if they perceive the behaviour of Christians to be good, they'll perceive Christ to be good, but if they perceive the actions of Christians as bad, then they tend to few Christ as a negative figure and most Christains to be evil. Whereas, if a person reads the New Testiment or the account of Christ's ministry in the Book Of Mormon, one would see that God does not look upon the inappropriate actions of those who profess to be Christian with any degree of tolerance. They will not receive a place in his kingdom unless they repent, and repenting is not just saying your are sorry as some people tend to believe. It is an envolved 6 step process which I won't go through here unless you want me to.
I'm sorry that you thought my head title was meant to infer that I thought you two were cold hearted. When I looked at it again I could see how you would have construed such. I'm just use to addressing correspondence with Dear or To so and so, that I didn't realize that my title for the correspondence would be taken as a personal slite. I am very sorry if I caused you any distress. I will try to remember not to include both on the same lines again and to clarify about whom I am speaking.
Love Mom xxoo
Most of what you said is jibberish to me! It is very evident that you have closed your mind to all sources of knowledge and have chosen only a few that fit your paradigm. Where as I, a follower of Christ, still embrace secular knowledge/truths. As is evident by the extensive post-secondary education I have and the professional development I continue with. I see that you have decided that unless "God" literally shows himself to you, you will not believe any type of communication you had or will have from him. That is your agency. I for one believe that Christ is the Son of God, that he did indeed serve a mission here on earth, that he was crucified, and that he arose again from the dead. So why do I believe this? Because someone told me to? No! But because I have had several "spiritual experiences" with him and they where literal experiences. Not induced by drugs or some other artificail means. He has talked to me, literally! He has laid his hand on my forhead, literally! Etc. So you can see how what you are saying sounds just like jibberish to me!
Love Mom
somehow i can't picture you studying natural philosophy or biology, since they stand in opposition to what you believe, except they have evidence and you don't.
try telling your experiance to a muslim, a buhdhist, a jew, a catholic etc who have all had similar experiences. i don't deny the existence of god, i deny the legitamacy of dogma.
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