[lbo-talk] Blaming Katrina's victims for not being rich

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Aug 31 14:22:58 PDT 2005


Chuck0 wrote:


>I was watching the coverage earlier today and they showed a young
>black woman responding to the camera about the bags of shoes she had
>taken from some store. They asked her why she had taken the shoes.
>She replied that she needed shows because the fucking streets were
>covered with water. They then asked why she needed multiple pairs,
>to which she responded that her family back at some hotel needed
>something to wear too.

What else are they going to do with the stuff? It would all into the trash anyway. I guess a good capitalist morality play requires that goods go into the trash rather than be taken by those in need of them.

Doug



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