Sunday, April 27, 2008

Research paper topic

My topic for the research paper is about Katrina. About the racism still going on and how it becomes obvious from this disaster.

Some of the articles that I found useful when researching were:

Katrina Exposes Racism - this article is just as the title states, it exposes the neglect towards the people living in New Orleans as most of the peopel living there were African Americans.

Black Witnesses Testify Racism Influenced Katrina Response - this article is another about the racism and this one contains some statements made by the victims of Katrina.

Racism or Relief? - this article is about how the President has declared "zero tolerance" on looting and placed more police troops in the area so that they could stop the people from looting the stores for food and water. So because of this decision many of the people living in Louisiana, many of the African American people as they had to starve. When African Americans went into the stores to get food for themselves and other survivors, they were marked down as "looters", but the White people that did the same thing were said to be finding food for thier survival and it was not considered thievery. Two groups of people doing the same thing, but both are viewed with completly opposing views.

3 comments:

rlouisaire said...

I think that this topic is reeally important. It is true that Katrina showed what was wrong this country. We saw what if there was a disaster who would be left behind

christina said...

i think katrina is one of the best topics to do a researh paper on, everyone says that the reason no one help after the disaster was because of the racial issue and i feel thats true too...

Doctor X said...

Sure--if you follow my format (on Blackboard), it should be a decent paper.