THE RACE QUESTION!!!

[mburbank]

I think if you take a look at how many people couldn't get out of the way of Katrina you'll have your answer.

As for the nonsense about our poor blacks being the 14'th richest nation... do they say that factors in cost of living? Cause I'm think a weeks worth of groceries in the black whole of Calcutta costs less than it does at the Piggly Wiggly.

In addition, I'd say that the relative poverty of other countries and their policies towards their poorest citizens is totally immaterial. We as a nation can make a determination of what level of poverty is acceptable and as of the day before Katrina we had. What we think now remains to be seen.

As for the Bill Cosby stuff, while I think there's some truth to it, I don't think it's even half the story. I was just putting it out on the table. Like a lot of rich old people, Cosby thinks his story is the only story. I have no doubt at all that he worked very, very hard to overcome poverty amidst the form racism took in his day. I'm old enough to remember Cosby as an angry young man. But just as there are very few people who have the stuff to climb out of poverty Michael Jordan, there are very few people who with a huge amount of hard work could become one of the greatest comics who ever lived. When he was rude to Wanda Sykes (an emmy award winning writer and performer who in addition to being black is also a woman) for not toeing his speciffic line he blew a large portion of his credability on the subject for me.