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241. 226. ..... & then she asks: How many white americans are helping those who are less fortunate?

ALOT MORE THAN BLACKS - look at all the footage of Hurricane Katrina - the immediate footage shows 80% - 90%of all the Red Cross/shelter WORKERS/firemen/police/rescue WORKERS/helicopter pilots/levy repairmen were white, helping almost 100% of black "victims". If they were victims, they were victims of Ray Nagin & their own ill planning.

Red Cross volunteers worldwide are about 80-85% white - from my personal experience.

Dont believe me - Google it - I just did & here is the link & what it said:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/volun.nr0.htm

"Whites continued to volunteer at a higher rate (27.9 percent) than blacks (18.2 percent) and Asians (17.7 percent). Among Hispanics, 13.5 percent volunteered.

Individuals with higher levels of educational attainment volunteered at higher rates than did those with less education. Among persons age 25 and over, more than 4 in 10 college graduates volunteered compared with fewer than 2 in 10 high school graduates and almost 1 in 10 of those with less than a high school diploma."

Next time, try to know the answer BEFORE you ask & question & TRY to make a point - all you accomplished here was pointing out another fact DISPROVING what you stupidly claim.

Posted at 5:37PM on Aug 11th 2008 by you cant handle the truth!!

242. Oh my God... Not this absolute BS AGAIN!

Give it up Nina!

Posted at 5:50PM on Aug 11th 2008 by Mina

243. 226. Typical, of all I said and I said plenty, you respond with Hurricane Katrina? The Red Cross? The scandal surrounding that event!!!!! The scandal involved the volunteers and the government, not the victims! Ray Nagin was not the cause of the hurricane. How would you like to live as those people did in that dome? In that stench? STFU, your stupidity is mounting! The media as usual continues to show the negative side of blacks/latinos and make sure the whites are painted as the good guy who comes in and saves the town! Have any of those people returned to their lives? To their homes? It's all been torn down and the devastation looks much worse than when Katrina hit. Has the govt helped rebuild? When the list is as long as Oprahs and you can come up with more than one event, enlighten us all, please.

Posted at 7:01PM on Aug 11th 2008 by Go Oprah!

244. Beyonce, Halle Berry and every other over paid cover girl/ L'orel model has final say-so on what's printed!!!!!! Wake up people....this is the picture the celebrity picked themselves!!!! Let's not throw in the RACe card if it's not needed.

Posted at 8:01AM on Aug 13th 2008 by JAX

245. I am amazed of the many ignorant comments and generalizations people are making. I really don’t see the big deal over the ad and really can careless. Reading the many comments wrote this country still has a long way to go with the ignorance of prejudice and racism. Until you walk a day in someone’s shoes you fully can’t understand what its like for them; doesn’t matter if the person is Black, White, Asian, Hispanic/Latino etc. At the end of the day life is what you make it.

Posted at 4:04AM on Aug 12th 2008 by Danni

246. Danni you are so right!

Posted at 6:29AM on Aug 12th 2008 by Lisa

247. I mentioned Hurricane Katrina in reference to your specific question asking how many white people are helping those less fortunate. I was a resident of Metairie, LA on August 28, '05. As a responsible & sensible person, I left well before then, before the evacuation. As soon as I could & was allowed in, I returned to the area as a volunteer & saw & lived & know first hand that a disproportionate number of volunteers were white. Dont get me wrong (again), there were some black, spanish/latino & asian volunteers, but the majority were white. Having had direct experience in & with Hurricane Katrina, personally and as a volunteer, I based my observation on my own specific, personal experience & validated them with specific statistics, in response to your specific question. Sorry if that experience & the actual facts are not what you believe or wanted to hear. You asked the question & I answered it.

Of course Nagin didnt cause or bring about Hurricane Katrina, I never insinuated he did, but neither did Bush or any portion of the government.

Of course there is corruption in the government but it was all there well before Katrina, not just in Louisiana. You cant blame it on the media, either. The devastation was unavoidable but personal loss could have been lessened greatly by each individual taking responsibilty for themselves, first of all, and their families & also their neighbors, ESP those less fortunate. The majority of people there just didnt do any of that. That is no one's fault but their own.

Your statement about the area looking worse now than right after Katrina hit is ridiculous & completely out of touch with reality. Some areas are still in demo stage, but work is constant. My neighborhood is still being rebuilt, but not by the government - by myself & the property owners who are responsible for their own future, and VOLUNTEERS, most of whom fit right into the statitics shown.

Instead of asking such a loaded, racist question, why dont YOU volunteer to help rebuild one of our neighborhoods, or help anywhere, yourself? Maybe by doing so you could enhance others lives instead of worrying about what color Beyonce or anyone elses skin is or appears to be in a photo. Instead you will continue to blame racism only on whites/non-blacks & not accept the fact that each persons own personal experiences are what their observations & beliefs are based on.

Posted at 4:44PM on Aug 12th 2008 by please volunteer

248. I think her fake $5 dollar hair is making her skin the same color. Does she really think that cheap hair looks natural! Why do black women insist on coloring their hair unnatural shades. I'm white and I wouldn't do it. So pathetic, trying to look white.

Posted at 1:05PM on Aug 12th 2008 by Patricia S.

249. Enhance her hair color, WTF, it is a wig, idiots!

Posted at 1:05PM on Aug 12th 2008 by Shaniqua

250. IT'S JUST A BRIGHTER GOD DAMN PICTURE, DAMN IT!

Posted at 6:54PM on Aug 12th 2008 by mik

251. To: Please Volunteer: Thank you so much for your wonderful post. You said it all. Good luck to you and your neighbors in getting your neighborhood rebuilt. If only you could be joined by some of the black people waiting on the government to bail them out yet again, or waiting on a handout. If the time they spent griping and blaming someone else for their problems was spent on something constructive, they could move mountains.

Thanks again.

Posted at 10:04AM on Aug 13th 2008 by Sick and Tired of Black Whining

252. I MEAN COME ON PEOPLE WE CAN ALL SEE THAT THE LIGHTING IS THE CULPRIT FOR ALL THE NEGATIVE TALK.WHY WOULD LOREAL JUST DECIDE THAT THIS ONE PICTURE OUT OF PROBALLY THOUSANDS THAT THEY HAVE TAKEN OF BEYONCE THAT THEY WANTED HER TO LOOK WHITE. BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO STOP PLAYING THE RACE CARD(AND THIS IS COMING FROM A BLACK PERSON) BECAUSE IT IS NOT THAT SERIOUS.PEOPLE TRY TO MAKE A BIG DEAL OUT OF LITTLE THINGS LIKE THIS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO LIFE....IF YOU LOOK ABOVE AT THE OTHER PICTURES THEY DIDNT TRY TO LIGHTEN HER SKIN WHY WOULD THEY DO IT NOW.... AND FUTHERMORE YOU PEOPLE THAT THINK LOREAL DID THIS ARE PUTTING A NEGATIVE LOOK ON BEYONCE BY SAYING THAT SHE WOULD ALLOW SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO HAPPEN. PLEASE I STATE AGAIN PEOPLE GET A LIFE

Posted at 6:57PM on Aug 15th 2008 by LAURESS

253. LAURESS- YOU REALLY NEED TO SHUT UP! EVERYTHING YOU WROTE WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DUMB.

Posted at 11:26PM on Aug 16th 2008 by TINA NJ

254. i kno she saw the picture before they put it out there so she should of said something if she wasn't cool with it. as much cash she got she can control how she look so obviously she didnt care since she still getting paid.

Posted at 9:44AM on Aug 17th 2008 by Cloe

255. i'm on the late freight (lol!) what really stands out to me in the 4 pics above is ..... i didn't know beyonce had a nose job!! lol! some of these comments are sooooo funny!!

Posted at 9:18PM on Sep 2nd 2008 by istaywoke