Images of Wilma’s destruction in Mexico:
Images of hurricane destruction are becoming as commonplace in the Americas as images of bomb explosions in Iraq. Indeed, these pictures show that Hurricane Wilma did to the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico (including Cancun) much of what Hurricane Katrina did to the Gulf Coast of Louisiana (including New Orleans).
However, these pictures also show that Mexicans battered by Wilma reacted just as (black) Americans battered by Katrina did. But for those who might wonder foolishly: Do only blacks and Mexicans loot under these tragic circumstances?
The answer is: hardly! It’s simply convenient for some people to forget how whites rummaged and pillaged in Florida after Hurricanes Andrew, Frances and Jeanne.
(Remember the widespread looting that occurred in Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein (including the theft of cultural treasures from the Iraqi National Museum? People in desperate circumstances do desperate (and often stupid) things….)
At any rate, just hours ago, Wilma made landfall in America around Marco Island Florida, with howling CAT 3 winds (125mph), storm surges of 17 feet and rain, rain, rain.
Good luck!
**UPDATE: Images of Wlima’s destruction in The Bahamas:
According to news reports, Wilma destroyed over 100 homes, left thousands homeless and tens of thousands without electricity. Indeed, after surveying the areas devastated by this hurricane, Bahamian Prime Minister Hon. Perry Christie expressed his shock and bereavement as follows:
“I cannot describe adequately what we have seen….I saw scenes that I imagined when I saw the reports of the tsunami in the Far East. I saw scenes reminiscent of what we saw in Louisiana and Mississippi….I saw entire communities with houses having disappeared…we knew that God must have been present because this could have happened at night when people were asleep and if it had happened at night, God knows the price we would have paid.”
Indeed!
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Anonymous says
in katrina, the tv and newspaper people got caught red handed calling blacks who took stuff as looters but whites who took stuff as people just getting food to survive. white peole think their shit don’tstink. thanks for busting them for looting in the florida hurricanes. i know they want to pretend that never happened.
eric