Hurricane Ike: The Other Galveston

[FluxRostrum]

EvangelineSO80

You are the biggest racist, classist, asshollist mfkr I've run across for a long time. Maybe you are the wife of the asshole who threatened to shoot me or have me arrested for spending to long in the white part of town, huh? Are Ya? I was going to delete your drival but it is better for everyone to see just what kind entitled bigot fks live there.

[EvangelineSO80]

You didn't interview real people! You interviewed people who were waiting for somone else to do it for them, but were crying because the free ride wasn't fast enough! This video is disgusting on all sides: The people interviewed, The people doing the interviewing, and some of the comments!

[FluxRostrum]

I've never been so collectively disgusted by my race as I was after visiting Galveston after the hurricane. after composing several more responses to "EvangelineSO80" but deleting them... all I can say is that I'm glad you live there with the other self important racist paranoid White fks. It's a shame all those NICE black people have to share their island with you transients but whatcha gonna do.

[EvangelineSO80]

We didnt have to time to find housing. One person you interviewed had a home but gas. Well at least she had a home. Most of us had no home to go to but were used by the city and its citizens and in our time of need where thrown out of the only dry place we had to sleep with no where to go and no one who cared with usually less than 12 hours to find a new place to stay because we had to go back to work again to keep the ignorant people you interviewed safe from each other!

[EvangelineSO80]

While your at it interview the Mayor and ask her why city employees where cleaning up broken glass, pulling up wet carpet, and patching a window in her private home the day after the hurricane. Start with the real issue. A corrupt and morally bankrupt city admin. Ask her house she threw her employees out of the San Luis hotel when she was done with them with a one day advanced notice. Most had no home to go to. Unlike other people we worked before, during, and after the storm.

[FluxRostrum]

I would have like to get to ask these questions but I was too busy trying not to get shoot or arrested for walking down the street with a camera.

[EvangelineSO80]

So plan "A" was government assistance and plan "B" was to work for a living. You exposed the under belly of galveston citizens for the average everyday citizen made the island look like a band of welfare and fema hungry fools. You want to get the real story interview people that work for a living and lost everything they had.

[EvangelineSO80]

I hardly find these people random americans, there is nothing random about these people you choose to interview. I feel that you choose the most ignorant indiviuals you could find in the poorest welfare driven parts of the island and solely focused on them. This is offivious when one of the people you interviewed described advised he couldn't wait for fema so went out an got a job.

[FluxRostrum]

because white folks like you wanted me arrested or shot for being there. FU.

[EvangelineSO80]

I honestly can say that this video left me in shock. I don't really know whether I'm embarassed because I live here, sad that someone would choose to interview these people on purpose, or sicken by some of the comments left on this video. Oh and by the way I was not born on the Island. I love the way you labeled these people random americans.

[lilygee4me]

i moved because of hurricane ike, haha i wanted to get interviewed!!!

[akerr1995]

I saw this on the Houston Chronicle, I was outraged to see only one type of person being hindered in their lives. I first reponder and resident, I guess those without jobs are news worthy. Great people are making the Isle livable again.  The people in the video did nothing but moan. I am glad I ive here but not now.

[SectorSevenCosplay]

great footage, real Galveston people indeed! Hope everything cleans up alright.

[streetbang]

good footage .

[augustine430]

Yup. Jus like in Katrina! Whitey always comin' down on the black folk! Couldn't be that these folks never paid dey bills in da fust place, cud it?

[FluxRostrum]

your congregation must be a bunch of ignorant white racist MFRs... or is that just you?

[augustine430]

Nope. I'm just a realist. Sick of the liberal left blaming everything on white people. Human beings are all equal. Blame yourself.

[FluxRostrum]

I'm sick of labels being used to replace thinking. this video contains NO liberals and NO blame. You're projecting these things into it.

[augustine430]

And so people that have the money to rebuild, should not, because others are poor? The rich should feel guilty? Why? Typical socialist outlook of life.

[FluxRostrum]

No. Not my my point.

My Point. Those who lost the most (based on percentage of total loss and ability to replenish) were far nicer than others. This was the same across several races.

The HAVE's shouldn't feel guilty but they should at least recognize that they Have.

[augustine430]

So what exactly is your point? Why is it a problem that the higher percentage of damage was to a higher income bracket? Why does that matter? Should the percentage of rich be lower? Spread the wealth? What makes you think the wealthy don't realize they have? I work with groups of 100s of more wealthy folks each weak that are out pulling out rotten sheet rock and insulation in poor homes. They are giving up their Saturdays and days off. They give their resources. Utopia?

[FluxRostrum]

you can't buy a smile

[augustine430]

You are 100% right.  Can you?

[CGreenbush]

augustine- So, a catastrophic hurricane devastates a lot of the island, all economic areas and you are saying that in an an emergency situation power can't be returned to certain areas because bills may not have been paid? Not even if it becomes a safety issue? WTF??? Looks like the wealthy be squeezing out the people from wanted land. Did you even see FEMA people down there Flux?

[FluxRostrum]

FEMA was there. at least 3 registration centers. I didn't talke to anyone who had applied and been ignored, they either had their money or had been denied... appealing...

REdCross & FEMA have BOTH apparently done a much better job in Galveston than in NOLA.. but then again they did a better job in Waveland Miss. after Katrina than they had done in NOLA too. hmmmmm wonder why?

[doctorj2u]

I am a native New Orleanian and my 80 year old mother lives in Pass Christian, MS. It must be fun to live in that imaginary world you have created for yourself. I bet it is all white too. LOL!

[FluxRostrum]

I'm not sure I understand your point.

[Elienation]

nice..

[misterb1972]

It's funny how the African-American people treated you with more respect and dignity than the white neighborhoods. In my opinion, most white people in the US are a bunch of self-righteous, snobby, disrespectful, assholes who need to STFU and die to make room for people who have common courtesy. Yes I am Caucasian myself.

[skinnychef]

good job Flux! those guys need some help, and you are the best!

love your mutual aid!

xoxox

skinnychef