Spike Lee's Katrina MOVIE..oh my hell...

[horns666]

I just saw this as headline news on MSN Today..just now.

OK, who didn't see this coming!!!??:ROTF:

I didn't guess Spike Lee..but why not..he's perfect!!

Wow, now we get to hear some more whining and blaming..how "THE MAN" F'd me in the A..over and over and over again!!

Rich, my friend, you were there.. did "THE MAN" (Bush) F you in the A???!!

I wonder if the proceeds of this film will go to Katrina's victims and help to build a better damm Dam??!!

I wanna know!!!

Ya know, as a retired Cop..I'll you tell straight out..with all that mayhem going on..no fuggin' way I'm going in there. Not without the proper assitance and support I need to get the job done safely and quickly as possible..and I worked a ghetto hellhole for 13 years..I know hellholes..and that was a HUGE one..

I had a couple guys that responded there from my department..by the time they got there..they were sent right back.

[lerxstcat]

Well, he sorta did F us in the A... he took his sweet fucking time sending in FEMA and the troops. The govt. knew VERY well that this would be a catastrophic storm.

Having said that, FEMA and the troops saved thousands of lives when they did get in here. They got in here a little sooner than NOLA because we didn't have standing water and we weren't near as crazy with looting. Our cops stayed on the job instead of joining the looters like many NOPD officers did.

People think of the MS Coast as "white" and NOLA as "black"; well, our population on the Gulf Coast is 36% black, more than 1/3 and less than 1/2.
The difference is that blacks here largely abided by the law, while blacks in NOLA went looting and raping. So it's not a black thing, it's a criminal element in New Orleans thing.

The government needs to clean up its response time and efficiency for the sake of the next victims of natural disaster. If it would at least learn something from the clusterfuck that was and is the Katrina response, then the suffereing down here will at least not be for nothing.

[horns666]

Wow Rich, damn that's fast response..better than FEMA !!

Thank you for shining your insight my man. I'm certainly glad that you made it out "OK"..could have been worse for you my friend..

OK, I get what you are saying..but Spike Lee, Al Sharpton, NAACP and alot of minorities and their leaders are seemingly making this a "black thing"..so this is not the case..I wouldn't think so..

This was the intention of this thread ..when I heard the news of the movie coming out.

I think everything was so chaotic, and hit so hard that it was just overwhelming, and the crime rush certainly didn't help matters..

Is it possible that well..human error + panic induced crime..they had NO clue how to respond to such matters in a timely fasion at that time.

It definitely had to be a learning experience for all across the board..I would think..

I think Bush was called on the carpet again by the press on this issue yesterday..I didn't hear his response..what's he going to say really..he's just going to CYA of course and try to blow off with some defense as best he can..what else can he do ..say sorry..yeah right.

Could they have planned for this disatster better..absolutley. There wasn't a pro-active plan put in place..I bet there is now, I assume..but this is after the fact..unfortunately.

Thanks Rich..what are your thoughts on making it a "black thing"..I mean it's going to be all over the news with the movie coming out..on this very issue. I believe the intent of the movie is slanted and biased as a agenda..it's going to stir the pot, some matters should be. I can't see anything good coming from these kind of accusations.

That is what I'm asking here..not the blatant lack of planning of this tragedy..but is making this a racial incident unfounded??

A major Clusterfuck.. YES..

Racial...you guys tell me..

Rich says no..he was there.

[St.James]

It's only racial to those who have something to gain from it...

I watched pretty much the same news footage others did and I saw a large number of white people in NO, yet I don't hear any of them bitching and making bullshit documentaries about it.

Fuck Shelly (Spike) Lee! Where was that sawed off little piece of shit when "his people" where in need? Where was the NAACP? The same place they always are looking for new ways to exploit a situation and raise the hackles on people to make money off of it. It's a pointless, lost cause few people are going to buy into otherwise Jesse Jackson would have his filthy ass in the middle of it too.

The government fucked up. No they didn't cause the hurricane of course, but they didn't do much in the way of helping ANYONE down there, but by fuck that Iraqi liberation horseshit is a huge priority for that little retarded cocksucker taking up space in the white house.

My thoughts on making it a "black thing"... typical, Plain and simple!

[horns666]

It's only racial to those who have something to gain from it...

I watched pretty much the same news footage others did and I saw a large number of white people in NO, yet I don't hear any of them bitching and making bullshit documentaries about it.

Fuck Shelly (Spike) Lee! Where was that sawed off little piece of shit when "his people" where in need? Where was the NAACP? The same place they always are looking for new ways to exploit a situation and raise the hackles on people to make money off of it. It's a pointless, lost cause few people are going to buy into otherwise Jesse Jackson would have his filthy ass in the middle of it too.

The government fucked up. No they didn't cause the hurricane of course, but they didn't do much in the way of helping ANYONE down there, but by fuck that Iraqi liberation horseshit is a huge priority for that little retarded cocksucker taking up space in the white house.

My thoughts on making it a "black thing"... typical, Plain and simple!

Dave, Point well taken..I agree.

yeah, I haven't heard many white folks complaining..even when they do..they don't do it with such malice and contempt such as this..

So, what will make it better and all go away..doesn't all this racial dust kicking keep the tension in place ..I think so.

what's with Nagen(sp) and his "chocolate city"..he's the friggin' mayor..what if any white mayor said that..double standard!!

But I am easily amused by that lil' cocksucker in the white house..

He's silly..I never was amused by another prez in my lifetime..he's somethin'. He cracks under pressure..I like watching his speeches just for the trainwrecks..

we are in balls deep man..I really don't see light in sight..some jihad will always have a hard on for us..I really don't see an end..there will be a few presidents inheriting this mess..I wouldn't want the job..NOOOoooooooo..

But this topic is about the coming movie "Katrina"..I think this may do more harm than good ..if it's too over the top..Spike Lee and co may shoot themselves in the foot with this one..

Next..

[St.James]

Dude there's such a double standard in this country today it's sickening.

I wish you could see our nightly news down here. It's the same stupid shit every night from the same stupid fucks.

Spike Lee won't shoot himself in the foot with it. He can do and say anything he wants. He's a black guy in a Politically Correct country that sees him as a civil rights leader of sorts. What he's doing is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the things Jesse Jackson has done and continues to do.

The Katrina movie, like everything else that trash has made, will just go on my ignore list.

[lerxstcat]

Y'all are right, it's gonna "be" a racial thing and their approach is that YOU are a racist if you don't acknowledge it. You can't really win trying to publicly oppose their story.

Spike also lied on GMA the other day. He said there were only 3 key patterns and that a FEMA trailer key would open 1 out of 3 trailers. Now it is fucked up, but it's really 1 out of 10. Where he got his numbers, who knows? It's still fucked up, but he just has to make it worse than it is.

And yeah, the local government in NO was and is black-ruled. Who's the one who waited til 36 hours before landfall to declare evacuation? That's Nagin. Who failed to mobilize the buses of the scool district and the local transit line to evacuate people at least to Baton Rouge? Again, Nagin. Of course we were guilty of the same mistakes on the MS Coast, but next time these buses will be used to evacuate large numbers of people.

Those assaults and rapes in the Superdome and Convention Center did not come from invaders sneaking into the damage zone. Those were local citizens who got bored and preyed on their fellow refugees.

New Orleans has always been a notoriously dangerous city. Walk down the wrong block and your ass is grass. You can call that a "black" thing or a New Orleans thing. Blacks here in MS did not break the law in large scale like those in NO did. I think we had it just as bad here as they did. We didn't have standing water for weeks, but our infrastructure was totally fucked. The casinos, the major employers, were all knocked out. Keesler AFB, which had probably 40,000 personnel and civilian employees, was so badly damaged that all but 2,000 personnel were transferred. That completely destroyed the local economy. The other major part of the economy, shrimping and fishing? Most boats were destroyed. Again, the insurance companies aren't paying either. some of those insurance company CEOS are gonna get popped before it's over; shooting adjusters isn't getting the message up the ladder.

So we were more severely fucked than NOLA, but all you see on the news is NOLA. Because that was protrayed as a racial incident, and the citizens acted like animals, that story was more sexy than ours.

[Tashtego]

I don't know, I think when even Juan Williams from NPR is rounding on the racial greivance industry it has to be a movement in decline. His audience has been footing the bills and providing the cover for Jackson - Sharpton Industries for as long as I can remember. When guilt ridden affluent white suburbanites shut their wallets and companies stop paying the extortion demands the jig will be up. Blacks have been openly laughing at their gullibility for 40 years.

[lerxstcat]

JIG?!?!? WHO you callin' a JIG?!?!? RACIST!!!! :ROTF::ROTF::ROTF:

[Tashtego]

Now I feel like Mr. Burns, using dusty old colloquialisms. The jig is up Batman!

[1trussell]

George bush hates black people.

[Tashtego]

George bush hates black people.

LOL. Run along sonny. Adults are trying to have a conversation here.

[1trussell]

LOL. Run along sonny. Adults are trying to have a conversation here.

Hey, if Kanye says it's true, then that's good enough for me.

http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/2005/09/06/kanye_west_is.html

[St.James]

Someone point out to me a clear-cut case of racial inequality right here right now. I don't mean some backwoods redneck buttmunch, I mean show me a black man or woman being passed over for a promotion, job, home loan, credit card, or being arrested based solely on the color of his/her skin.
Show me this "racism" and "comin down on a brother" I keep hearing about, cuz all I see "comin down" is loudmouth and lazy blacks comin down on all whites. They even belittle the hard-working and dedicated blacks who get out and get a job and KEEP a job as "whitey pawns" or "betraying your heritage".

My neighbor has fallen on serious hard times. She's an older woman who's a cancer patient. She can't do a lot in terms of work, but she does what she can. Her husband, a construction worker, fell sick and was hospitalized for about 3 months and almost died.

She had no other choice than to apply for welfare... The end result was she had too much to qualify for it. She had a car, a house and $20k in the bank. They told her to give up her home, sell her possessions, move into an apartment and use the only money she has to live on.

The kick in the head is all of the brand new Lexus, Mercedes, Cadillacs, etc. in the parking lot. And if you watch long enough you'll see those cars don't belong to the employees there, but to the blacks there picking up the checks and shit.

Same thing happened to my mother when she was in the hospital with cancer. She didn't qualify! So the whole welfare system can kiss my entire ass!

As for racism, it's definitely out there, but not where the blame is placed. Most whites, I'm not one of them, are too afraid of being labeled a racist to even speak up about it!

The racism is out there, but if you're looking for the medias version of it, odds are you won't find it, it's on the flip side.

As long as there's a Jesse Jackson and his many clones, an NAACP, an ADL and people willing to give into all of it nothing will change, but it WILL get worse.

[yard dawg]

Little Spike is a flea on the butt of the USA. No one except the "oppressed" will go see that movie.

I want to know why didnt the people just LEAVE!!! There was at least a 36 hour warning of a class 5 hurricane coming. Was it the white man who created that hurricane? I didnt read of any white man forcing the "opressed" to stay. It was the chocolate mayor of the chocolate city that didnt offer any help either. Its stupid to just stay because its your home and you just cant leave it. ITS YOUR LIFE YOU MORONS!!!! A home is just a house. Your life is more important. GET OUT WHEN A CLASS 5 HURRICANE IS COMING!!!!
I guess they didnt see the white sheets the storm was wearing. It wasnt Bush's fault either. The anti white mayor didnt do anything. ITS NOT THE GOVTS JOB TO BABYSIT AND TAKE CARE OF EVERYONES PROBLEMS!! grow up and take responsibility for your self.

As far as being "oppressed" by the man. THATS STUPID!!! My woman worked in a corporate setting and she saw so many black woman who were lazy and always late and didnt care. NO ONE would even address the problem. They have racial quotas to fill. Her new place of employment wont even consider a black woman who displays any "blackitude" during an interview. Its this "blackitude: that turns people off not the color of skin. They are always callin in sick or coming in late and you cant say anything because you will be labeled a bigot. Its the bruthas who are oppressing the black woman not whitey. Just watch any rap video or talk to almost any brutha. Woman are just Ho's to most of them. When lil spike or sharpie come down on the rappers then maybe I'll listen again.

There is racism still happening too. My woman applied for a govt office job and was told she wasnt qualified. SHE HAS BEEN AN OFFICE WORKER FOR YEARS!!! How can you not be qualified for a job youre already doing. If she was black she wouldnt even need to be "qualified" I gaurantee that.