Just got a call from a friend who manned a Red Cross phone bank tonite

[Demonaut]

she said most of the calls were people from Houston, most were stuck on the highway out of gas, she said too many gas stations had closed and many people had ventured out with too little gas, she told them that fuel trucks had been deployed and to pull off to the side and leave thier hoods up. One caller called and asked for twenty dollars for gas to leave the city, as she has no way of getting money to the guy she told him there was nothing she could do..he replied "I hope you fucking sleep well tonight, If I was some n****r with twenty kids I bet you'd help me..".......poor girl, she's a fucking VOLUNTEER!

[Carolab]

1. Oh, real nice, using the N word.

Shows their true colors, doesn't it?

[rodeodance]

3. cars use a lot of gas crawling at 1mile an hour and with A/C on--it is not

that they started out with too little gas.

[Demonaut]

4. actually one couple took both their cars and neither had a full tank

both scenarios are correct

[Carolab]

5. So? That doesn't excuse his racial slur. n/t

[Demonaut]

7. I've edited it, it's too vulgar..sorry

[Carolab]

10. You shouldn't apologize. The idiot who said it should. n/t

[Erika]

2. Bush is such a uniter...even in his own backyard.

Meanwhile, the poor are stuck at Greyhound stations.

[niyad]

6. staffed, not "manned", please. and, having witnessed the debacle that is

the houston evacuation, one can almost understand the frustration and anger. I would NOT be in that position for anything. this is another cluster****, only dressed up to look like the texas officials are DOING something.

what a horrible, horrible mess.

[girl gone mad]

8. Hmmmm....

And I suppose he thinks when a black person asks for help, it's welfare, but when he asks, it's just his god-given right.

[Garbo 2004]

9. Yeah, difficult not to think perhaps that guy should "pull himself up by

his bootstraps and stop asking for handouts." (One imagines such words may have crossed his lips on occasion, given his remark to the volunteer.)

[Window]

12. It's called "white privilege" doncha know.

.

Peace

[Window]

11. I hope the bastard gets no help from anyone.

If I was some n****r with twenty kids I bet you'd help me.."

Peace

[Mairead]

13. That caller sounds like a drunk. It's the kind of thing an

alcoholic who's still on the way down would demand. They overflow with rage and self-pity. Ask anyone who's lived with one.