I pray to God this isn't true

[roguevalley]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randall-robinson/new-orleans_b_6643.html

It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.

I am a sixty-four year old African-American.

New Orleans marks the end of the America I strove for.

I am hopeless. I am sad. I am angry against my country for doing nothing when it mattered.

This is what we have come to. This defining watershed moment in America’s racial history. For all the world to witness. For those who’ve been caused to listen for a lifetime to America’s ceaseless hollow bleats about democracy. For Christians, Jews and Muslims at home and abroad. For rich and poor. For African-American soldiers fighting in Iraq. For African-Americans inside the halls of officialdom and out.

My hand shakes with anger as I write. I, the formerly un-jaundiced human rights advocate, have finally come to see my country for what it really is. A monstrous fraud.

But what can I do but write about how I feel. How millions, black like me, must feel at this, the lowest moment in my country’s story.

[progmom]

1. this is our most embarrassing hour

:hug:

[theshadow]

2. "Reported" by whom? eom

[Poiuyt]

3. I hadn't heard that story before

Right now I'm taking it with a grain of salt.

[Another Bill C.]

4. I really don't believe that.

A lot of rumors seem to have become "fact" over the past few days. I think this is another one.

[roguevalley]

5. you and me both

[Sparkly]

6. Count me in with you two. n/t

[blossomstar]

7. No! Do not feel hopeless!

You might not be ready for hearing this right now, but these people in LA that have died are our HEROS. They are going to turn this country around in it's priorities as much as Martin Luther King did! The ENTIRE COUNTRY sees this for what it is and is truly OUTRAGED... Never again will anything like this be allowed to happen! Not only will human rights and equality become the FIRST priority of most Americans but also protecting our environment! America, in its current state of corporate greed and total disregard for its poor and impoverished is repugnant not only to its citizens but to the entire world at this moment. Hold on, have faith, know that there are reasons that we can not comprehend happening. God knows I am praying that the people responsible for this tragedy will be brought to justice.... and they will, have faith, they will pay. You are not alone in your anger and I am ashamed to say, I am white.

[givemebackmycountry]

8. Sadly.

I saw this myself from several different places.
LINKS, shit I got too many of em.

I do know that there were probably 10 different threads last night suggesting this was true.

I pray they were all, like the sniper stories, all untrue.

[ISUGRADIA]

9. Randall Robinson has o evidence of this...until he does it's BS

[FrenchieCat]

10. I'm gonna need some proof on this one!

a source or something!

It's like they ain't even doing that in Darfur....and Lord knows, their Katrina has been going on for over a year!

[Moderator]

11. Locking

Rumors of such horrific acts aren't needed right now.