Katrina's Hidden Race War

[Doctor_J]

Hartmann just interviewed the author. Excellent read

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/thompson?rel=hp_currently

Nathan Roper, another vigilante, says he was unhappy that outsiders were disturbing his corner of New Orleans and that he was annoyed by the National Guard's decision to use the Algiers Point ferry landing as an evacuation zone. "I'm telling you, it was forty, fifty people at a time getting off these boats," says Roper, who is in his 50s and works for ServiceMaster, a house-cleaning company. The storm victims were "hoodlums from the Lower Ninth Ward and that part of the city," he says. "I'm not a prejudiced individual, but you just know the outlaws who are up to no good. You can see it in their eyes."

The militia, according to Roper, was armed with "handguns, rifles shotguns"; he personally carried "a .38 in my waistband" and a "little Uzi." "There was a few people who got shot around here," Roper, a slim man with a weathered face, tells me. "I know of at least three people who got shot. I know one was dead 'cause he was on the side of the road."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/thompson?rel=hp_currently

[jody]

1. If it was a "Race War", then why are the mayor and sheriff both African Americans covering it up

by not investigating?

[Paranoid Pessimist]

2. For the same reason some slaves helped the masters control the others n/t

[jody]

5. Are you claiming the mayor and sheriff are tools of the masters? What a pathetic joke you make. n/t

[Doctor_J]

3. I am unsure what your point is

The evacuation team made blacks leave through white neighborhoods where the locals were heavily armed, calling the evacuees "niggers", and shooting everything that moved. And nothing is being done about it. During the radio segment it was said that the chances of anyone being successfully prosecuted are next to 0.

Read through the article.

[jody]

4. I read the article and my question re mayor and sheriff are valid. n/t

[Doctor_J]

6. So, if, for instance, Kenneth Blackwell was in charge of purging black voters

from the OH rolls, this would make it not a racial issue?

[jody]

7. Your OP used the headline "Race War" and that must mean Mayor Nagin & Sheriff Gusman are

conspirators so I ask for proof they are involved.

I care not what any other mayors/sheriffs may have done, only the two involved in NOLA.