I don't think I can ever speak to my brother again,RACIST MF

[mitchtv]

Mods delete if this is too racist for DU, but I can't digest this bilge alone , I am disgusted:


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Engineering and Power Plant Fabrication Company... Again---- I Just "pass it Along".... YOU---draw your Own Conclusions....!!!!




SO I VOLUNTEERED..........

I thought I might inform the few friends I have on my recent traumatic experience. I am going to tell it straight, blunt, raw, and I don't give a damn. Long read, I know but please do read!!!

I went to volunteer on Saturday at the George R. Brown convention for two reasons.

A: I wanted to help people to get a warm fuzzy.
B: Curiosity.

I've been watching the news lately and have seen scenes that have made me want to vomit. And no it wasn't dead bodies, the city under water, or the sludge everywhere. It was PEOPLE"S BEHAVIOR. The people on T.V. (99% being Black) where DEMANDING help. They were not asking nicely but demanding as if society owed these people something. Well the honest truth is WE DON'T. Help should be asked for in a kind manner and then appreciated. This is not what the press (FOX in particular) was showing, what I was seeing was a group of people who are yelling, demanding, looting, killing, raping, and SHOOTING back at the demanded help!!!!! So I'm thinking this can't possibly be true can it???? So I decide to submit to the DEMAND for help out of SHOCK. I couldn't believe this to be true of the majority of the people who are the weakest of society. So I went to volunteer and help folks out and see the truth. So I will tell the following story and you decide:

I arrived at the astrodome only to find out that there are too many volunteers and that volunteers where needed at the George R. Brown Convention Center. As I was walking up to the Convention Center I noticed a line of cars that wrapped around blocks filled with donations. These where ordinary Houstonians coming with truckloads and trunks full of water, diapers, clothes, blankets, food, ! all type s of good stuff. And lots of it was NEW. I felt that warm fuzzy while helping unload these vehicles of these wonderful human beings. I then went inside the building and noticed approximately 100,000 sq. ft. of clothes, shoes, jackets, toys and all types of goodies all organized and ready for the people in need. I signed up, received a name badge and was on my merry way excited to be useful.

I toured the place to get familiar with my surrounding; the entire place is probably around 2 million sq. ft. I noticed rows as far as the eye can see of mattresses, not cots, BLOW UP MATTRESSES!!! All of which had nice pillows and plenty of blankets. 2 to 3 bottles of water lay on every bed. These full size to queen size beds by the way where comfortable, I laid in one to see for myself. I went to look at the medical area. I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing!!! A makeshift hospital created in 24 hours!!! It was unbelievable, they even had a pharmacy. I also noticed that they created showers, which would also have hot water. I went upstairs to the third floor to find a HUGE cafeteria created in under 24 hours! Rows of tables, chairs and food everywhere - enough to feed an army! I'm not talking about crap food either. They had jason's deli food, apples, oranges, coke, diet coke, lemonade, orange juice, cookies, all types of chips and sandwiches. All the beverages by the way was put on ice and chilled!!!! In a matter of about 24 hours or less an entire mini-city was erected by volunteers for the poor evacuees. This was not your rundown crap shelter, it was BUM HEAVEN.

So that was the layout: great food, comfy beds, clean showers, free medical help, by the way there was a library, and a theatre room I forgot to mention. Great stuff right????

Well here is what happened on my journey -

I started by handing out COLD water bottles to evacuees as they got off the bus. Many would take them and only 20% or less said thank you. Lots of them would shake their heads and ask for sodas! So this we! nt on fo r about 20-30 minutes until I was sick of being an unappreciated servant. I figured certainly these folks would appreciate some food!!! So I went upstairs to serve these beloved evacuees some GOOD food that I wish I could have at the moment!

***The following statements are graphic, truthful, and discuss UNRATIONAL behavior***

Evacuees come slowly to receive this mountain of food that is worth serving to a king! I tell them that we have 2 types of great deli sandwiches to choose from - ham and turkey. Many look at the food in disgust and DEMAND burgers, pizza, and even McDonalds!!!! Jason's deli is better than McDonalds!!!! Only 1 out of ten people who took something would say "thank you" the rest took items as if it was their God give right to be served without a shred of appreciation!!! They would ask for Beer and liquor. They complained that we didn't have good enough food. They refused food and laughed at us. They treated us volunteers as if we where SLAVES. No not all of them of course...but 70% did!!!!!! 20% where appreciative, 10% took the food without any comment and the other 70% had some disgusting comment to say. Some had the nerve to laugh at us. And when I snapped back at them for being mean, they would curse at me!!! Needless to say I was in utter shock. They would eat their food and leave their mess on the table... some would pick up their stuff many would leave it for the volunteers to pick up. I left that real quick to go down and help set up some more beds. I saw many young ladies carrying mattresses and I helped for a while. Then I realized something...their where hundreds of able bodied young men who could help!! I asked a group of young evacuees in their teens and early twenties to help. I got cursed at for asking them to help!!! One said "We just lost our ****ing homes and you want us to work!!" The next said "Ya Cracker, you got a home we don't" I looked at them in disbelief. Here are women walking by carrying THEIR ****ING BEDS and they can't lift a finger and help th! emselves !!

WHY THE **** SHOULD I HELP PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT TO HELP THEMESELVES!!!!

I waved them off and turned away and was laughed at and more "white boy jokes" where made at me. I felt no need to waste my breath on a bunch of pitiful losers. I went to a nearby restroom where I noticed a man shaving. I used the restroom, washed my hands and saw this man throw his razor towards the trash can...he missed... he walked out leaving his disgusting razor on the floor for some other "cracker" to pick up. Even the little kids where demanding. I saw only ONE white family and only TWO Hispanic families. The rest where blacks...sorry 20% to 30% decent blacks... and 70% LOSERS!!!!!

I would call them ******S, but the actual definition of a ****** is one who is ignorant, these people were not ignorant......they where ARROGANT *******S. The majority of which are thugs and lifetime lazy ass welfare recipients. We are inviting the lowest of the low to Houston. And like idiots we are serving the people who will soon steal our cars, rape, murder, and destroy our city while stealing from our pockets on a daily basis through the welfare checks they take. We will fund our own destruction.

By "US" I don't mean a specific race, I mean the people who work hard, work smart, have values and morals. Only people who want to help themselves should be helped, the others should be allowed to destroy themselves. I do not want to work hard, give the government close to half the money I earn so they can in turn give it to a bunch of losers.

I don't believe in being poor for life. My family immigrated here, we came here poor, and now thank God, and due to HARD WORK we are doing fine. If immigrants, who come here, don't know the language can work and become successful... WHY THE **** CAN'T THE MAJORITY OF THE HOMEGROWN DO IT!!! If we continue to reward these losers then we will soon destroy our great country. I just witnessed selfish, arrogant, unappreciative behavior by the very people who need help the most. N! ow these same people who cursed me, refused my cities generosity, who refuse to help themselves are DEMANDING handouts on their own terms!!!!!!! They prance around as if they are owed something, and when they do receive a handout, they say it's not good enough! Well you know what......these types of people can go to hell for all I care!





Dale & Donna Dedrick
If you can't change the people around you, change the people around you....From the cradle to the hearse, there is always a day that could be worse.

[KittyWampus]

1. stupid and most likely fake.

though it's telling the supposed volunteer went simply to feel 'warm and fuzzy'.

[Tace]

2. Hint -- Virtue Is Its Own Reward

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Hmm having worked disasters two things stand out

that may and are actually true, but your brother does not know why.

People coming in from a major disaster rarely say thank you, not because they are demanding something, or don't know how to say it, but I am almost betting the thousand mile stare was present too. (This is in the immediate aftermath though)

Yes sometimes refuges from major disasters are not comfortable with the food offered because it is not familiar. Yes a ham or Turkey sandwich would be familiar, but not necessarily to the evacuees, and this is a common problem in disasters. (Again immediate aftermath)

My favorite take, after the Mexico City quake, a lot of the Herring that I think Sweden sent, ended up in the black market because the people had no clue what to do with it, and hey some really well to do folks were willing to pay big bucks for them bottles...

His views of this are colored by his political lenses, and I am sure if somebody sat down and explained this, it would not matter to him either.

This is just the... oh my disasters and reactions to such are so damn universal and predictable it is not even funny.

Thanks for sharing though, I hope though that this little insight into how people act during these times will also put some of what he saw in context...

[tocqueville]

4. already debunked

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/personal/volunteer.asp

That e-mailed report regarding the attitude and behavior of evacuees doesn't seem to jibe with the experience of Rick Barrett, a volunteer who served at the Astrodome. According to his account, he found people "were so grateful for people taking care of them and being there for them after what they'd been through" and "their eyes lit up when you just gave them a cold can of Coke." Additional reports from other volunteers at the Astrodome describe kindly, supportive, and touching interactions between volunteers and evacuees.

We've looked at other blog entries from volunteers working with the evacuees in Houston only to find that among the ones we located there is no mention of arrogance or a rampaging sense of entitlement among the evacuees, no description of trashed washrooms or food spurned because it wasn't what the displaced citizens from New Orleans wanted. While it is possible the author of the much-circulated account did encounter the behavior and attitudes he chronicled, one has to wonder why even outside the confines of mainstream media other mentions of similar ill-treatment of the volunteers and the facilities are so hard to come by.

Instead, stories abound of what it's like to be living in one of the many centers the uprooted have been taken to, such as Kristin Finan's account of spending the night as an evacuee and an Associated Press article about a day in the lives of Kiesha and Darren Keller, two of the many temporarily housed at the Astrodome. Those stories and others paint a very different picture of the evacuees.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. That is the other response

and for the record many volunteers do go to feel better about themselves....

But that post does have little truths in there, from having worked disasters.

[Free2BMe]

6. Wow..how really sad this is..

I do hope this is not the "universal" truth..Thank you for trying to do good..the 10% who appreciated it were worth it.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Sorry but I don't believe one word of that. nt

[HeeBGBz]

14. Me neither, not what I saw

I saw grateful people with nothing - happy to be alive and comparing experiences and trying to network information to help themselves. I saw people with nothing volunteer to help with food distribution and unloading trucks.

That letter sounds like typical right wing racist hoopla.

[ClintonTyree]

8. Looks like a big, old, steaming pile of............

bullshit to me. Hey, I have a brother just like yours. He's 17 years my junior, my parent's "little mistake" but my Dad was determined to not make the same "mistakes" with my brother as he seemingly did with me. My Dad was a Republican through and through and although we lived in the Northeast, racism had quite the foothold there. I spurned my Dad's ideology and was anti-war, Nixon....the whole nine yards. He had a second chance with my brother I guess and was determined to pass along what he considered the honorable traits of racism, hate and good old fashioned red, white and blue nationalism. It worked.

My brother and I are worlds apart. My daughter refuses to believe we're from the same family. I still love my brother even with all of his hideous beliefs because I know WHY he thinks that way. Thanks, Dad.

Have a talk with your brother and tell him you'd rather not be on his "hate" list. I'm sure he'll do as you ask. When you're together, talk about things far removed from politics, religion, country and if these subjects are broached, walk away. Just walk away. My brother always knows when he's gone too far because of the icy silence and my walking away. He gets the message.

I'm not sure if this will help in your situation, we're all different. I just thought I'd let you know you're not the only one with a problem like this and how I live with it.

He's my brother and I still love him. Hate the sin, not the sinner. I hope you two can work things out.

[left hand man]

19. "Hate the sin not the sinner"--- He's your BROTHER----

My older brother and I had a disagreement(family) that kept us apart for 4 years.I hated being apart-- not able to discuss things--- we reconciled last september---- then he was killed in an auto accident 12/07/04--------we will never talk again--- TALK TO YOUR BROTHER!you can agree to disagree but family is ALL you have in the end.

[mitchtv]

23. you are right

I deleted it and wiull tell him I didn't appreciate it. after all, I don't send him chimpy pictures.

[acmejack]

9. It's making the rounds!

I've seen this one twice already. It's crap. http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/203083.htm

on edit: http://www.snopes.com/katrina/personal/volunteer.asp

[wildeyed]

10. I couldn't read the entire thing.

But if the majority of then evacuees were asking for sodas, why not get some???? Don't you hate it when you have been away from home for a long period and you are craving something familiar and can't get it? And wouldn't it be 1000 times worse if you had just been through what these people had been through?

I volunteered at one of the evacuee shelter in NC, and this is not at all what I experienced. Almost everyone I helped was appreciative. Some people seemed really blown away and didn't want to talk much. Others did want to talk, and that was fine, too. I just tried to help people get what they needed without inserting my own ego into the equation.

[undergroundpanther]

12. The crux

INSERTING THE EGO

Only a narcissist,an authoritarian personality wouyld INSERT thier dickish Ego into a serious disaster relief effort like Katrina to make an excuse to feel so unappreciated and cook up a rationalization for his own hatred of anyone who's a victim..By making claims that he is a victim too. The writer of this tripe is a narcissist a morally inferior person. Sure I bet in disasters alot of people are cranky,alot are scared,worried,distracted, uncommunicative,angry,they just lost everything I don't think I would be so quick to judge on "niceties"..But a narcisssist like this cracker writing this shit hasen't got enough EMPATHY in himself for others situations to put his BIG EGO aside and withold his petty personal offense to trauma sufferers who lost it all.
You can tell what motivcates some writes and it is a pathological narcisstistic bullies EGO.

[Gildor Inglorion]

11. How is it possible not to know the difference between "were" and "where"?

The writer can spell "evacuees," "mattresses," and "immigrated," but can't distinguish between "were" and "where"? I don't get it. Something is badly wrong with this literary masterpiece.

[upstandingcitizen]

15. Spellcheckers

Spellcheck doesn't check grammer. The words were spelled right, just used wrong.

[MADem]

16. Well, it is a fake, and spell check would not pick up the context

of those two words. So, some idiot faked it up and wrote it, and then took the time to spell check it.

This sort of shit is not worth anyone's time, beyond sending the Snopes link back to anyone foolish enough to forward it.

[Dirty Hippie]

13. Thank you for this post!!!!

My dad sent me the same damn thing. My sister and I have been upset about it all week. It is hard to realized that someone you care about is so full of hate. I tried to tell him it was most likely fake but he did not believe me.

I just sent him the snopes link and the urbanlegands link.


Thanks again for the post.

[politick]

17. I bet this guy also

ate cockroach eggs at KFC and they hatched in his cheek, just after he got his check from Microsoft for $38,000 for replying to an email, while reading the article about a zombie virus in South America, just before he added Princess Monabo from Sierra Leone -- who's political refugee father is trying to wire $9 million US Dollars to America, but needs a trustworthy citizen to help him do it -- onto his bank account.

[Dissent Is Patriotic]

18. What seems fake about it to me...

is the fact that this volunteer had incredible mobility. He was able to survey every different type of area. This does not make sense. There is an undertone here, and it smells rotten to me.

[daninthemoon]

20. I think it's fake.

[phusion]

21. THIS IS HUGH!!

agh..not this shit again.

[NorthernSpy]

22. NEWSFLASH! Racists really DO write and distribute propaganda...

... which is why keeping track of rumors and slander is so important to the wellbeing of the displaced.

Racists are truly despicable people who don't hesitate to harm the vulnerable. And ironically, they usually claim "superior morality" as one of the attributes of their own group.

:eyes:

Show your brother that page that debunks this particularly vile bit of slander.