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Houston blacks won't trust government in hurricane, survey finds

 
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Houston blacks won't trust government in hurricane, survey finds
July 24, 2006, 10:04PM


Houston blacks won't trust government in hurricane, survey finds

By PAUL J. WEBER
Associated Press


HOUSTON — Blacks living in Houston are far more likely to count on faith for protection this hurricane season than government agencies that most blacks see as dishonest and unprepared, according to a university study released today.

Eighty-three percent of blacks surveyed believe the city is only somewhat or poorly prepared to handle an ordeal such as Hurricane Katrina, the aftermath of which led Texas Southern University to conduct the telephone poll of 404 blacks in Houston.

Fifty-six percent of those polled said they don't trust the government to tell the truth about disasters, while 55 percent said they believe the government uses disasters as an excuse to remove the poor and minorities from their neighborhoods.

But when asked whether God would protect them from harm if a hurricane hit Houston, nearly eight in 10 of blacks surveyed said they believed that was true.

"If they don't trust the government, where else do they look?" said Karen Callaghan, a political science professor at TSU. "They're looking to God in this case."

Frank Michel, a spokesman for Houston Mayor Bill White, had not seen the survey but said Houston was prepared for a disaster. Michel said he could understand how a person of any race might have doubts about government preparedness after Katrina.

Katrina, which swamped New Orleans nearly a year ago, exposed deadly shortcomings in preparedness and raw tensions about race after a slow federal response.

"We think we're as prepared as any city in the country," Michel said.

The survey was conducted in late April and had a margin of error of 4.87 percentage points. Callaghan said 3 percent to 4 percent of those surveyed were hurricane evacuees living in the city.

Houston, with a population of about 2 million, is about 30 percent black.

One black city leader, Houston Urban Area League President Sylvia Brooks, said she thinks the results merely reflect the images blacks saw on television — such as low-income minorities stranded on rooftops after Katrina swamped New Orleans.

"I think the fear is based on what people saw (during Katrina)," Brooks said. "But I would not think we are not prepared."

Brooks, who said she has met with White about the city's disaster planning, said Houston has plans but the larger problem is getting information into communities.

TSU's survey asked about that, too, and found that 45 percent of blacks interviewed found warning messages "too technical" for the average person to understand. Fifty-three percent said warnings were "too confusing."

Callaghan, who said TSU conducted the survey after wondering why so many blacks refused to evacuate New Orleans during Katrina, said the poll suggests that many blacks are simply ignoring messages from the government because of distrust.

"If it's a noncredible source giving you the information, no matter what the warnings are, you're not going to look at it," she said.

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Re: Houston blacks won't trust government in hurricane, survey finds
Nobody should trust the government - EVER!
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Re: Houston blacks won't trust government in hurricane, survey finds
Are hurricane warnings really too hard to understand? Too confusing? Too technical? I don't get it. But then I don't live in a hurricane area.

Are they seriously too confusing, peeps in hurricane country?
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Re: Houston blacks won't trust government in hurricane, survey finds
You must not know anything about post-Katrina Houston. Most of the blacks ARE FROM NEW ORLEANS.

They criticize the government, then cry for help. Most of them STILL haven't found jobs, a year after Katrina.

Hell, they're probably hoping for another Rita, so they can continue to suckle from Uncle Sam's teat.
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God forbid they should rely on themselves.
rolleyes
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maybe they are planning to rely on themselves
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1rof1

the last 140 years of history would prove otherwise.
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racists are braindead cow
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It's not racism 'tard. It's a fact. New Orleans was not some bucolic downtown paradise. It was a legacy of government handouts. Those people were helpless for a reason.

If you read the Houston papers, like I do, you'd have a fucking clue.

Now mooooove along because you've got nothing to add here.
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Here. Educate yourself to the facts.

"But jobless evacuees, keenly aware that Houston is feeling far less compassionate than it was 10 months ago, insist that finding work in the nation's fourth-largest city isn't as simple as Houston's 5 percent unemployment rate might suggest. Neither the city nor FEMA track unemployed evacuees, but a Zogby poll commissioned by the city in March found that 85 percent of the 606 refugees surveyed were out of work. Sixty percent said they were looking for jobs."


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Here. Educate yourself to the facts.

"But jobless evacuees, keenly aware that Houston is feeling far less compassionate than it was 10 months ago, insist that finding work in the nation's fourth-largest city isn't as simple as Houston's 5 percent unemployment rate might suggest. Neither the city nor FEMA track unemployed evacuees, but a Zogby poll commissioned by the city in March found that 85 percent of the 606 refugees surveyed were out of work. Sixty percent said they were looking for jobs."


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They aren't looking for jobs! They are lazy worthless, human beings that don't deserve my tax money and further more didn't deserve to be rescued. It's too bad, Katrina could have saved taxpayers hundreds of millions had it actually taken out all the trash.
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Re: Houston blacks won't trust government in hurricane, survey finds
You must not know anything about post-Katrina Houston. Most of the blacks ARE FROM NEW ORLEANS.

They criticize the government, then cry for help. Most of them STILL haven't found jobs, a year after Katrina.

Hell, they're probably hoping for another Rita, so they can continue to suckle from Uncle Sam's teat.
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STFU
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1rof1

the last 140 years of history would prove otherwise.
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Was it not white people in the Americas who relied on African slaves for four centuries?

What a god damned idiot!
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Are the local hurricane warnings REALLY confusing?





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