There has been a lot of talk in recent weeks about post racial America. But it was just over three years ago that Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast and revealed just how ugly America's racial and economic divide remains. After an 18 month investigation, journalist A.C. Thompson published a report, Katrina's Hidden Race War, in the Nation Magazine that details vigilante violence in the city of New Orleans in the days after the hurricane. Most of the early stories covering these vigilantes were largely sympathetic. But as Thompson outlines it is a much more complicated tale.
Although there has been a large response to the story online, there has been no official comment or effort to investigate the shootings.
I am ashamed of Laura Flanders and FireDogLake for falling for this Race Baiting War Piece. This is wrong. I was living in New Orleans when the Levees Broke after Katrina missed the city. I was there. It did not happen this way. This man was Not There. He is wrong.
Goddamn all of you faux leftists journalists who feel the need to invent tragedy on the back of tragedy. Goddamn you all for dropping the balls.
I am so angry to see this Inaccurate Story getting pushed while we are getting shot every day in New Orleans by young black thugs with guns.
They are killing each other and they are killing us. All of us.
We are getting killed Right Now in New Orleans in a Rat Race War!
We are getting killed every day by black kids with guns.
This story by AC Thompson has already been proven inaccurate at the offset since Katrina in fact missed New Orleans. This article is an ugly attempt at sensationalism to sell not journalism.
Please stop Not Paying Attention.
You are Not Paying Attention.
We are getting killed in New Orleans today.
http://humidcity.com/2009/01/1…..of-a-life/
By Editilla on January 19th, 2009 at 5:15 pm