Black Mother of Two Who Died in Hurricane Sandy Was Refused Help By White Man

Nov 02, 2012 73 Comments by Rippa

A black mother of two who died in Hurricane Sandy was refused help by a Staten Island resident. Having seen for myself the look of desperation on the faces of people only hours removed from Hurricane Katrina when it hit New Orléans in 2005. The following story of how a mother lost her two children after seeking help to escape the ravaging storm conditions doesn’t sit well with me. It reminds me of the countless stories of death and survival recounted by victims of Hurricane Katrina in the days and months after the storm.

This from CNN.com:

(Staten Island, NY) Police in Staten Island, New York have found the bodies of two brothers, Brandon and Connor Moore, swept out of their mother’s arms by floodwaters during Superstorm Sandy. The grim discovery was made this morning by NYPD divers in a marsh.

Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro says the boys, ages 4 and 2, were found “maybe a block or two from where [their mother] lost them.” The parents were there when police found the boys.

According to police, the boys’ mother, Glenda, stopped at a man’s house after her SUV hit a hole during the storm.

She begged for help and asked to come inside, but that man said no.

Soon after, the mother and her two children were hit by a massive wall of water.

The mother desperately tried to hold onto them, but the force of the water was too much.

Her two boys were carried away in the deadly floodwaters.

Somehow the mother managed to survive.

CNN’s Gary Tuchman talked with Alan, the man believed to have rejected her plea for help. He’s telling a much different story.

The mother of the two children, Glenda Moore, was black. Now I’m not going to go as far as to say that there was a racial component to this story since Alvin — the man who refused to help — was white. However, after watching the following video, it’s pretty obvious that race mattered.

After the boys disappeared, Mrs Moore knocked on a nearby door for help but was told: ‘I don’t know you. I’m not going to help you.’

Mrs Moore then tried another neighbor near her Staten Island home, but when she rang the bell they turned off the lights and refused to answer.

As the storm raged around her, the nurse took shelter in a doorstep, screaming and staring at the waters which had just snatched away her children.

Twelve hours later, at dawn when the weather calmed down, she found the strength to walk down the street and flag down a passing police car to raise the alarm. (source)

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http://reggiesblogspotrantings.blogspot.com/ Reggie

My God!!!

What type of person does that?!? How can he live with himself knowing the result of that decision?!?

Guest

Honestly, I doubt he cares.

http://www.kweenskaleidescope.blogspot.com kweenkiwi

This is ridiculous…there’s NO excuse for this. none. To leave ANYONE out in that destruction with a clear conscience is evil to me. Dispute that if you will, but no way was this right.

OlderWoman

Quit your bitching. Whites have also been denied help. Grow up!

http://www.kweenskaleidescope.blogspot.com kweenkiwi

You’re disrespectful ways do not defer from the truth. No one is talking about YOUR shit right now. We’re talking about THIS situation. Two wrongs don’t make a right. I personally, haven’t and wouldn’t deny a white person help because of race. Growing up would be not to assume I’m immature because you don’t agree…now, kissing my ass…that’s totally an option!

Erin

I’m a black single mother of one. I feel her pain & I cannot imagine being without my child. However, I’m with the guy. He had no idea who she was & why would she endanger her children’s lives like that by driving in a hurricane when she received the same warning message as everyone else?!! If I was going out into a hurricane, I would’ve made sure my children remained somewhere I thought they would be most safe. It has nothing to do with skin color. Just common sense. He shouldn’t be charged, she should for endangering their lives.

http://rippdemup.com/ RiPPa

She was not “joyriding” during the hurricane. According to the police report, she left her home to attempt to seek higher ground because she felt that her and her kids were in danger.

michell

Thank you..I’ve never heard whites being called names for not evacuating..she lost babies.

Black_Diaspora2

“It has nothing to do with skin color.”

I disagree: It’s about color, and human decency. Taking into account the conditions of that night (Who could have possibly been out on a night like that to do him harm?), and his refusal to help (as well as other neighbors), he and his neighbor stand self-indicted.

But I take solace in the sure knowledge that justice shall prevail–if not here and now, then later–at a time and a place where lies and subterfuge won’t exonerate you.

Everything about this man’s attitude with the reporter–his callous response before the interview and during the interview–shows a person bereft of compassion, or concern for his fellow man or woman.

“[W]hy would she endanger her children’s lives like that by driving in a hurricane when she received the same warning message as everyone else?”

With the slightest of effort, I could imagine many scenarios that might have propelled this woman to do what she did, but it wouldn’t change the tragic outcome: When she cried out for help, she was summarily ignored by her neighbors.

http://rippdemup.com/ RiPPa

She was attempting to seek higher ground when her car went into the ditch. As for the rest of your response? Right on point, and most excellent.
http://twitter.com/qudths qudths

It’s about human decency, I agree. But lets not make this about skin color (race). I’m a minority as well (asian, not black. Not sure if that makes a big difference as I’m discriminated against as well; perhaps in different ways however), but what these people did is about fear, cowardice and inhumanity, coupled with their feeling helpless in the midst of a natural disaster. There is so much more than race here that the race issue shouldn’t be the focal point, but the fact that not one person bothered open their door to another human being. I can understand not going into the torrential waters to look for the boys themselves (well kinda of understand), but to not even call 911 makes the monsters.

Black_Diaspora2

“But lets not make this about skin color (race).”

Why not?

Despite your “minority” status, you have no right to tell me that–what I should or shouldn’t do in my assessment of what
occurred. I can “make this about” anything I choose, chief among them “race,” as the situation has a racial component, and didn’t happen in a vacuum, or a neutral bubble.

Given the racial and racist behavior of many whites in this country over decades and centuries targeting blacks, I refuse to be burdened with the additional responsibility of deciphering, determining, fathoming, or speculating as to what is and what is not racism.

By default, every act that smacks of racial animus, or is racially insensitive, or is overtly racist, falls under the rubric of racism, and must be answered–not by me as to whether it is or is not (as I refuse to indulge in that kind of mental
contortion)–but by those perpetrating the acts, or indulging in suspicious behavior where race is present.

It’s not my burden, and I refuse to carry it, not for you, nor for anyone else who seems to think I should moderate my stance
sufficiently to at least consider racially-insensitive acts in a larger context.

I won’t!

It becomes the burden of those whites who’re involved in overt or covert acts of racially-appearing behavior (especially where their acts are ambiguous as to intent) to prove to us whether their acts were racially motivated.

That’s not something for me to agonize over. And I won’t!

Our survival as a people forces us to presuppose hostile intentions first, and not extenuate actions of others, placing the burden squarely on them to prove, show, justify, and demonstrate their intentions.

“[B]ut what these people did is about fear, cowardice and inhumanity, coupled with their feeling helpless in the midst of a natural disaster.”

Perhaps. But let’s face it: You’re indulging in gross speculation, and offering up a “benefit of the doubt” argument, which is your choice, but not one that I’ll entertain.

I choose not to do that. I won’t spend time–not one second–of mental anguish to find an alternate rationale for their behavior. The onus is on them to convince me that their act was something other than racially motivated.

Did you forget: Two children lost their life as a result of these neighbors’ inaction.

Had the neighbors showed a modicum of human compassion, these two kids might still be alive.

“There is so much more than race here that the race issue shouldn’t be the focal point.”

Need I remind you: this is the United States. Race here is always the “focal point.” I didn’t make it that way. You didn’t make it that way, but to dismiss it here as some footnote in the whole affair is naivete at best.

I don’t have the luxury of seeing things the way that you see them: Race is always the “focal point.” It’s the focal point, because my life and the life of other blacks hang in the balance.

And that’s not hyperbole, just the unvarnished truth.

“…but the fact that not one person bothered open their door to another human being.”

And that’s just my point: These neighbors didn’t open their door, not just to “another human being,” but to a black human being.

Had the mother and her children been white, I believe that we would have seen another outcome.

I could no more have responded to the situation in the callous way that these white neighbors did, despite the color of those involved.

It behooves them all to assume the responsibility for those lives and to use their remaining years to save the lives of as many other kids as is possible to make up for the loss that their inaction caused.

Justice never forgets until the scales are balanced. Better to start now that be compelled later, under more severe, and
trying circumstances.

“I can understand not going into the torrential waters to look for the boys themselves (well kinda of understand).”

Well, I can’t “understand,” not at all, and would have made the effort regardless of the race of the kids. I’m involved in humanity, not just one race, but all races.
michell

Its about race..if she was white..she would of been in..faster if thin… trust in this…it is all because..she is black…what the fuck was she gonna do….hold him hostage with two babies?

michell

Right on…you are integrity!

michell

Then your as much of a fucken idiot as he..really..you have never been overwhelmed and distressed..scared……idiot..you must be a professional stormer girl…shame on you black woman..she had babies…babies….babies……. think of your babies if ever you needed..
myself

I wish I could have put my pic up for facial expression, but check this rippa, this mufuca ain’t no black women talkn this here way, this what you call a sleeper, an old dusty as s pasty-pimple of a fraudulent white person, Reynolds to make another person think otherwise. PASTY-PIMPLE!!!

Anne

I am a married white women with two children and it is clear to me
this man is lying. My heart breaks for this women and her family. Two
beautiful children have lost their lives due to this mans selfish, hateful
decision not to help this mother. I have been brought to tears for the last
two days after I heard this story and can only hope if there is a hell this
man rotts there! Prayers to the family.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Nick-Metcalf/1432508359 Nick Metcalf

My wife told me about this story and I am not too big of a man to admit I cried when she read the story from the internet to me. We have two kids of our own, and my heart breaks for this woman. I agree that this man is clearly lying and is just a plain coward. Where the hell is this society going if we are not willing to help someone out who is DESPERATE to save her two kids. I hate when race is interjected into things, I think the race card is played to much, but you can’t argue that it most likely played a part in this COWARD turning away another human life when they’re life and the lives of her two kids hung in the balance. The guy should be ashamed to be a human being, I agree if there was a chance he could be charged with criminal negligence or anything he should be, in my eyes he is accountable for those two little boys’ deaths, unfortunately in the laws eyes he is probably only guilty for being a cowardly, selfish, human being. One last thing, I was born in ’81, I grew up in a generation where race isn’t that big of a deal, it’s only a big deal to my fathers generation who wants to make it an issue in everything, it’s an even lesser issue for the generation following me. It’s unfortunate that we still have times where we sometimes think “Did it play a part in this?” It will be a great day, and we will be a great society when we can look past the color of a person and just see them for one of God’s children and love on everyone. When we as a society will do what is best for most and not what is best for one, when we will lay our own lives down for the next person, risk our lives to help our neighbors, that is the society I am still hopeful for, that is the way I am raising my two kids, and that is the society I hope to see come to fruition before I die. Call me a dreamer, but it has to start somewhere, and if nothing else it’ll start at my home. I just wish I had been the owner of that house, so that I may have helped that woman and her two kids.

butch cassidy

You can start with putting the blame where it belongs, with the person who put these children in a car and drove them into a hurricane to die after driving into a flooded ditch.

I recall plenty of public announcements warning against going out in the storm.

It’s just like the liberal media and the bleeding hearts to make accusations of racism and blame someone else for a persons bad decisions. If race had anything to do with this tragedy maybe it is with the liberals desire to always make race an issue for dramatic effect.

http://www.MIsfit4Lyfe.blogspot.com/ Lisa Matthews

oh my butch, your compassion astounds me.

Jaimie Rom

I have no compassion for stupid people. Nor do I have any compassion for blacks who try to blame every bad thing on whites. This mentality of blaming the white man every time something bad happens only contributes to the racial divide.

http://www.MIsfit4Lyfe.blogspot.com/ Lisa Matthews

Pray for the Spirit of Discernment and you can HEAR him lying.. just SMH @ you!!
Black_Diaspora2

“It’s just like the liberal media and the bleeding hearts to make accusations of racism and blame someone else.”

How Republican of you!

Just a caveat: What you condemn you become.

Blame my “bleeding heart” for wanting to reach out even to the likes of you.
OlderWoman

Butch you are correct. Historically, though, blacks are irresponsible and always find a way to blame others for their stupidity and irresponsibility.

MadefromaQueen

Just wishing Katherine McChesney and the rest of her Klan would’ve been washed away by Sandy! Blacks are historically irresponsible and violent, but a “WHITE” guys walks into an elementary school and kills innocent children. Get your facts straight Lucifer.
Vanessa

So one white guy out of 224 million whites who live in America goes on a killing spree. That’s 0.0000004% of whites who commit violence…now let’s look at your race and we’ll start to see a TRUE portrait of evil incarnate: “3,494 blacks out of every 100,000 (that’s 3.94% vs to 0.00000004%) committed a violent crime against a white person while only 63 whites out of every 100,000 committed a violent crime against a black. The black rate is more than 55 times the white rate, meaning that the average black was 55 times more likely to attack a white man than vice versa. In the case of robbery, or mugging, blacks were 103 times more likely to go after whites than the reverse.”

These are official FBI statistics, you can read the crime reports yourself. But I’m sure the FBI is racist, or the statistics are racist, right?

And you’re black so you probably don’t believe in statistics. Afterall, facts are for racists.

http://rippdemup.com/ RiPPa

Personally, I think he just saw a black person and turned a not-so-blind eye. What’s even more disheartening, is the fact that even after her kids were swept away. Mrs. Moore knocked on several doors asking for someone to call 911, and was rejected. Even worse, is the fact that she spent the night on someones doorsteps screaming during the storm. She is a black woman, and believe it or not… in the eyes os many, her life holds no value. Just look at how dismissive the gentleman was in the video above.

OlderWoman

Can you blame him. 85% crime, 65% violent crime commited by blacks. She’s to blame. Good for him to say no to endangering his family.

michell

You cannot be real??? No way..your just bored and maybe even a kid..u cannot be real..please do t be real..these weren’t ganstas..crips or bloods whatever their names are..just a mommy with two babies..show your face..coward…

OlderWoman

This woman chose to leave her car with her two children. She endangered her children. Not the man. She should have gone to a shelter instead of expecting someone else to shoulder the responsibility she refused to take. You people are Professional Victims.

Black_Diaspora2

“You people are Professional Victims.”

And you’re a “professional” troll.

http://www.kweenskaleidescope.blogspot.com kweenkiwi

Folks make that shit a job. smh

http://mommaused2say.com/ Mommaused2say

So much too say but I really just want to whoop his ass!
http://www.MIsfit4Lyfe.blogspot.com/ Lisa Matthews

This makes me SOOOO mad!!!

OlderWoman

Lighten up. She is responsible for her children’s deaths.

Black_Diaspora2

And you, ma’m, could very well have been one of the neighbors who turned her away–as you’ve turned away from any empathy in this matter.

Your Republicanism is showing.

Jimmy Carl

There’s a time and place for street justice, and this is it. The location of his house shouldn’t be too hard to figure out. I hope he gets a visit from a mob in the very near future.

Jaimie Rom

You want justice. Go after the mother of the 2 kids. They were perfectly safe at home, but “shit for brains” mommy decided to take on mother nature. Do you think your thug mentality is going to promote white people to help blacks?

http://rippdemup.com/ RiPPa

Um, she was attempting to seek higher ground at the time, hence being in her car. But I suppose she would have been better off by staying in harms way with her home with the potential of flooding.

OlderWoman

She made the wrong decision.

Black_Diaspora2

And so have you.
michell

Yea OK shit for brains..she stayed ..but what the fuck..I hate.you..and still would let you in!

michell

Asshole..her house flooded.like it did to many Italians in S.I…..who stayed.. hang yourself.

Harvey Mushman

100 to 1 this asshole is voting for Romney. Half of this country makes me sick, and ashamed to be both an American and a white man. Just another example of how nothing’s really changed since the ’50s – we’re just better at hiding our racism… at least until the chips are down, that is.

I wish I believed in hell, because this motherfucker should have a place in it.
ninezz

too bad most of you negroes won’t learn until it happens to you or maybe some of you just have to taste death…but she laid dwn wih the enemy (edomite) and had his offspring so fuck her

Jaimie Rom

“the enemy” Let me guess, all white people are the enemy ?

OlderWoman

White people have been your only friends. Who else has worked at jobs to pay trillions of dollars trying to assist you in getting out of your self-inflicted destruction. You are the only racists in this country and you’re paying for it. You have no one to blame but yourselves.

Black_Diaspora2

What is that old saying: With friends like you, who need enemies.

Please! Stop being our friend!

miche

And fuck you too..do you have any…any idea hon..how stupid you sound..any idea at all….no really..a little .maybe..????

ASchenk

I can’t believe how cold a person could be. He knew who was outside his door. How can he say out loud that “she should not have been out in this storm”. I can only hope he has sleepless nights for the rest of his life. Those poor children, that poor mother. My heart hurts for her.
zach

Why does everything always come down to race, and then calling other people racist when you say that they are voting for Romney. Why are you voting for Obama? Probably because he is black

http://rippdemup.com/ RiPPa

Because most people are cowards when it comes to the issue and reality that is racism in this country — especially people who ask, “why does everything always have to be about race?”

OlderWoman

The only racism in this country is from blacks. You people whine and moan about everything but you do nothing at all to raise yourself from the self-imposed destruction you cause. All you think about is taking other peoples hard-earned money, drugs, weaves, manicures, ipads, big rims, grills and fancy sneakers. You’ve run out of excuses.

Black_Diaspora2

“You’ve run out of excuses.”

And you ma’m, are an extinct breed, soon to be relegated to back pages of history.

And it couldn’t come sooner, or happen to a “nicer” person.

Onyinye

Amen, Black, an extinct breed indeed – a fitting end for a wretched oxygen thief.

michell

Girl your too much..I felt heated when I first started reading your comments.. but now..I have remembered why our soldiers fight..its for your right to be you…lovely you..you go girl with your bad self..fight to stay alive..white power… yayeeee. You have the right not to care about dead babies..especially black ones.. cause somewhere in the hood..they be committing crimes yo……….ooh u must be pissed Obama won..bye cupcake

Black_Diaspora2

“Why does everything always come down to race.”

Why ask the question when you already know the answer? Everything in this country comes down to race, because whites have made everything in this country all about race.

When whites give up their obsession around race, we’ll give up ours. Until then.

I voted for Obama, not because he’s black, but for the same reason millions of whites voted for him: Obama’s a better choice than the white guy!

Onyinye

Ignore the fool. The issue at hand has nothing to do with Obama or Romney but two precious children lost to their grieving mother, something the turd is unable to grasp.
Everything is about race because that’s all idiots like him/she/it care about in the first place.

Jaimie Rom

Here’s what happened according to what I have read.

news sources tell people there is a big ass storm coming in a few days
at the height of storm the nurse panics when the power goes out

she decides to take her 2 and 4 year old to her mothers
her car gets into trouble
her kids get swept away
instead of trying to rescue her own kids, she hangs on to a tree for a few hours
she then goes to a house and asks for help
the man refuses to help because of the dangers outside

This lady is responsible for the deaths of her kids.

http://macklyons.blogspot.com/ Mack Lyons

I have to wonder if this lack of compassion would be so apparent if the woman in question was white, blonde and relatively attractive? I’m sure the man would have found the herein-withal to lend a helping hand then.

I only hope no one decides to take their frustrations out on him if they see him on the streets.
http://rippdemup.com/ RiPPa

I guess the people who sought refuge in shelters in NJ who eventually had to be rescued because of flooding are idiots as well, right?

OlderWoman

No, they did the right thing. Help came because of their good decisions.

michell

Hey as swipe..she panicked..OK…but who the fuck wouldn’t..how many storms have you been through..now let me say..anyone k rocks on my door..in this situation.. there’s no hesitation.. you help..would of been different if she was white. ..how do you live with yourself…duechbag.

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http://twitter.com/qudths qudths

I’m sorry, but the fact that this guy didn’t offer to help look for her children after they got swept away doesn’t make him a racist. It may make him a monster however.

Black_Diaspora2

“[B]ut the fact that this guy didn’t offer to help look for her children after they got swept away doesn’t make him a racist.”

Need I remind you: A racist is a “monster.” And in this instance, the guy’s a racist until he convinces me otherwise.

KMCT

This is just tragic. My heart goes out to the mother and father of these two boys. I can’t imagine their loss. As a mother of 4 this is just heartbreaking. I pray your family is able to find peace.
michell

Wow..can’t believe some of these comments..for those who side with the man..on closing the door on babies…who don’t believe this was race related..inhuman related… self serving..cold hearted related…ugh..what is there to say..but..your the sickness of this world. And the black mother who agreed with him…go dive in a batch of clorox..your a disgrace. Shame on you. She was a scared mom with babies….BABIES. he is a disgusting hideous thing…a thing.How much space would they have taken..put them in a room..cram a chair under doorknob.. say..”Sorry..I’m afraid of your hoodlum babies..you’ll be safe and dry here..but you must stay in this room!..and I’m not Sharing my supplies!!!!!!”… I’m sure she would of quietly stood in a closet..but he said nope..fuck her and those babies..should of stayed home. I hope he becomes a pariah..but of course not to his neighbors..man is a hero..bad bing..this will you blacks your place..wasa Mazda wit Jew?..do Jews apply here too…what about hmmm
michell

I must get off this site..I need a shower…I feel dirty in the presence of abuse for this woman..but to all that get it…stay beautiful…peace.

Onyinye

God bless you …and all who get it – who know what it is to be human and know pain.

Diva

*Sigh*. I’m really sick of having to read people who 20 years later are STILL attempting to perpetuate the “Welfare Queen” stereotype. By all means, I invite the trolls with their mythological negro creature to dare check statistics and see that it is their Caucasian Rural Females (who often vote Conservative) who lead in accepting government aid.

Remember, he who lives in a glass house should not throw stones.

Signed,

The “Not-So-Welfare” Queen.
MadefromaQueen

Its so sad to read some of these comments. I don’t think anyone is making excuses for the mother. I think that she was trying to provide shelter for her children and maybe she didn’t leave in time, but her children were still alive when she asked for help and didn’t receive it. Bottom line, the dude had an opportunity to be a good Samaritan, yet he chose to be a racist, uncaring, and heartless bastard. And that is something that he will have to live with for the rest of his life. The children were innocent angels in all this and people are not really getting that point. The parents will be reminded of this day for the rest of their lives as well. I do feel that if she was a white woman, she would’ve received help. And we have all these comments about blacks making excuses and we’re violent. All of that is nonsense. Violence is a global trait that has no gender or race. Recently a white guy walked into an elementary school and killed innocent children. Columbine, Jeffrey Domer, etc., all whites and committed violent crimes. So please just stop it. Stick to the facts rather you want to agree or not. If this woman was white, her children would still be alive.

Vanessa

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