re: Liberal Writer Calling Hurricane Racist Now

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The correlation is made with the alleged lack of cooperation by lending institutions to provide home loans of significant value to minority. As such, a vicious cycle of env racism ensues.

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In case you weren't around ten years ago, the banking industry tried out the whole loaning money for big houses to people that couldn't afford it. That resulted in the complete collapse of the market when, shockingly, people making $35k a year couldn't pay for their half million dollar homes. At the end of the crash, they called loaning them the money racist too. Pretty sure the only way it wouldn't be racist is if the poors got free houses paid for by the taxpayers. Crap, we already do that too.

Liberalism is truly a mental illness.

Aura Bogado also wrote this piece:

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Why People of Color Don’t Frequent National Parks

These national treasures haven’t exactly felt like a safe space for non-white people, writes Glenn Nelson, an advocate for people of color participating in outdoors activities.

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Nearly 300 million people visited national parks last year, a record number, and the vast majority of them—88 percent—were white.

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She quotes an NY times article about the same thing:

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A neighbor, Carla DeRise, has been to Mount Rainier and other parks, and is game to go again. She just can’t get any of her friends to come along. They are worried about unfriendly white people, hungry critters and insects, and unforgiving landscapes, said Ms. DeRise, 51, an African-American. So she mainly hikes alone, albeit with some anxiety. “I don’t have a weapon,” she quipped. “Yet.”

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And, if you’re curious to read more about why the outdoors are so white in the U.S., I’d recommend Karl Jacoby’s “Crimes Against Nature.” In it, Jacoby outlines how conservation efforts are essentially a tool of statecraft, which renders varying affects on local populations, regardless of class lines.

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A neighbor, Carla DeRise, has been to Mount Rainier and other parks, and is game to go again. She just can’t get any of her friends to come along. They are worried about unfriendly white people, hungry critters and insects, and unforgiving landscapes, said Ms. DeRise, 51, an African-American. So she mainly hikes alone, albeit with some anxiety. “I don’t have a weapon,” she quipped. “Yet.”

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So, black people's unfounded and irrational fears are the fault of white people? Is it white people's fault that black people wear socks and house shoes at the water park as well?

Being next to an chemical plant has nothing to do with color. Real estate around plants is obviously less in value because of the location. It's poor people, nothing to do with color. Don't get it mixed up

Have they started blaming white people for their fear of pools and the ocean?

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They are worried about unfriendly white people, hungry critters and insects, and unforgiving landscapes, said Ms. DeRise, 51, an African-American. So she mainly hikes alone, albeit with some anxiety. “I don’t have a weapon,” she quipped. “Yet.”

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What the frick?!

An old friend posted something on Facebook about us ignoring the dead in Haiti, claiming it was solely based on race.

It probably had something to do with the hurricane possibly making landfall in the US, but she really got off on the racial angle.

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Then how come nobody has dialed up a hurricane for Ferguson Mo

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We ( white people) could send it right up the Mississippi River. It would be named Hurricane Darren

Thanks for the example