On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, scott quillen wrote:
I can't believe it. I just can't f'ing believe it. Why are people blaming
the VICTIMS? That's sick. That's just sick sick sick sick SICK, saying
that the victims are to blame because they're just a bunch of buck savage
Negros who just wanna shoot rescuers and rape our white people. That's the
sort of attitude I'd expect from 1955, not from 2005. I thought that this
EVIL had at least slithered under its pointy white sheet to where it was
embarrassed to show its face. But I guess not. I guess not.
Look, I've taught in the schools where these supposed "savages"
go. I've worked census in black neighborhoods. I've walked up to every
house in a black neighborhood, and after explaining that I was from
the census bureau and why I was gathering the data the bureau had
asked me to gather, there were no more gracious people on this earth
(in fact the *ONLY* time I ever got a shotgun pointed at me was in a
white neighborhood). I've talked to overwhelmed parents, working three
jobs to survive, whose kids are being raised by elderly aunts and
uncles because on most days they're working before their kids get up
in the morning and still at work when their kids go to bed at night
(yeah, "lazy" negros, yeah right, get back under your effin' sheet,
Mr. KKK dude). I've driven down streets where even black people told
me "don't go there, Mr. Green, they'll carjack you and kill you for
being white", and guess what? It never happened. It never
happened. Even when going to talk to the mother of one of my students,
whose family ran the neighborhood's crack and black tar trade
according to my (black) co-workers. The kid himself, BTW, was smart as
a whip. But doomed, where he was and what he was, was all he was ever
going to be, and he knew it, and he spent a lot of his time with anger
and a far-away look in his eyes, but he was a sweet kid under it all
and his ability to feel empathy for his classmates was touching. And I
tell you, never, ever did I feel anything but welcome anywhere I went.
A more gracious people, more willing to help and share with each
other, I have never found.
Look, I've talked to survivors of this thing. They say yeah, there
were gangs, but the gang-bangers stayed away from the Convention
Center and Superdome because of the police presence outside. They
survived for five days "without food and water" because they helped
each other, because they together went and "looted" (if black) or
"found" (if white) food and water that was in the restaurants and
stores and cooked it for the hungry crowds, because they swarmed over
any hoodlums and stomped them since there were no police to be found
actually inside the convention center and what police were around were
aiming their guns at the VICTIMS, not at the hoodlums, so they did
what they had to do (the Convention Center was *never* overrun by
gangs, I mean, you had GERALDO RIVERA in there, did you see gangs? I
didn't. I just see suffering people, what are you going to believe,
the ludicrous rumors or your very own eyes?). And look: these people
say that government actually HINDERED them. Kept supplies they'd
ordered via cell phone from coming in. Kept busses they'd ordered via
cell phone from coming in. Actually fired SHOTS at them for trying to
save themselves when government obviously couldn't, when they tried to
walk across the bridge to dry land and safety. When the first relief
convoy came up, do you know what they found? You think they found
chaos? Hell no. They found a nurse with her arms raised, saying "I
have sick children in here, I need some help." They found orderly
lines of people, women and children first, patiently waiting to board
the buses. Yet if you'd listened to the hysterical rumors, these were
all just a buncha buck negro savages rioting and killing each other.
I am sorry, I am just so, so angry that people I know, people I love,
have been treated this way by their government and, worse yet, by
their media and by the rest of the American people. In Lafayette, the
rumors going around, my brother says, is that the black people from
New Orleans who are in the Cajundome right now are looting and raping
and doing armed robberies. It isn't true. The police chief has gone on
TV and said it isn't true. But the gun store shelves are empty anyhow
because people WANT to believe that the reason those people were stuck
at the Convention Center and Superdome was because they're buck savage
negros who want to loot and rape white women and children. My god. My
GOD. Is this 2005, or 1955?
I am just so, so, disgusted, so, so angry. These are AMERICANS, these
are PEOPLE, for cryin' out loud, and their government has failed them,
has even PREVENTED them from helping themselves, all so a bunch of
sick m*****f***ers at FEMA can play stupid bureaucratic paperwork
games. I mean, Homeland Security even turned away (at gunpoint!) a
flotilla of 500 boats for use in the rescue effort, 500 boats that
Cajuns had just brought in from their swampy homeland, because, get
this, the Cajuns WEREN'T RESCUE-CERTIFIED! My GOD. Cajuns. People
practically BORN on boats. Not qualified to take boats into a drowning
city because they don't have some bureaucratic BS piece of
paper. Sick. Sick sick sick sick sick. And this is the VICTIMS fault?!
Some people's white hoods are constricting the flow of blood to their
brains, in my opinion.
That is all.
-Eric