[Leica] Anne Rice

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Jeffery Smith offered:
Subject: RE: [Leica] Anne Rice


> The reports on CNN and Fox that disturbed me the most were the scenes of
> looting by black males in white shirts. It reminded me of the scenes of
> civil unrest of the early 1960's, on the Huntley-Brinkley Report. And it 
> is
> difficult not to associate black males in white shirts as a threat and a
> liability. But we need to realize that New Orleans in summer has tens of
> thousands of black males in white shirts that, at a distance or in a 
> grainy
> video, all look very much the same. While I sat on my porch Monday, 
> Tuesday,
> and Wednesday, black males in white t-shirts asked if I was okay and if I
> made out all right, and if I needed water. And it was a black male in a
> white shirt who found the elderly Italian woman next door unconscious 
> behind
> her damaged fence, and he summoned help for her. And it was two black guys
> in white shirts who helped us get her back into the house. While we were
> struggling with her dead weight on the stairs, three black guys in white
> shirts stopped their car in front of the house and asked if they could 
> drive
> her to Touro Infirmary. But none of those guys were videotaped doing these
> things, and none of them were looking for recognition. And I'm sad that a
> small percentage of criminals left the indelible impression on television
> viewers that can only hurt race relations. I hope I see them again when I
> can get back into the city.<<<<<<<,

Hi Jeffery,
Wonderful presentation above and beyond the usual " bad stuff TV networks 
thrive on!"  :-( The worse they can make a story appear the better ratings. 
But CNN and FOX as far as I'm concerned totally go out of their way to find 
only bad things! And if they don't intentionally, it seems that's all they 
show, bad stuff!

I was going to say a few other things about TV coverage but it's pointless!

However, your post comments are extremely heart warming as I just couldn't 
believe the guys in white shirts were all bad guys!

ted