The Lynching of New Orleans [View All]

[katusha]

I'm sorry if I seem over the top, but this is what it feels like to me. The worst part of how I feel is that it is NOT the totality of failure and disdain from the administration that makes me feel this way, it is the response and attitudes from some of the citizens of this country towards their hurting brothers and sisters.

"They should have left when they were told, they deserve this if they didn't."

"They didn't leave because they were waiting for their welfare checks."

"They are just animals in the Superdome, why should we help them."

"We questioned why we couldn't cross the bridge anyway, especially as there was little traffic on the 6-lane highway. They responded that the West Bank was not going to become New Orleans and there would be no Superdomes in their City. These were code words for if you are poor and black, you are not crossing the Mississippi River and you were not getting out of New Orleans."

These are just some of the despicable things I've heard and read of late and frankly, it reminds me of the mindset of folks who used to turn out to watch a lynching in the bad old days, and when I say a lynching I am not referring to the mechanics of rope and tree, I am referring to what Ida B. Wells referred to as a form of social caste oppression used to remind blacks of their place in a racially stratified society.

These are not BLACK americans that have been devastated, they are simply AMERICANS who need our help, just as we would need their's if we had been devastated.

If someone tries to push that racist crap on you, please spit in their face. I say fuck being civil to the uncivilized BARBARIANS who think being black is justification for suffering and privation.

That includes you too Babs Bush!