New Orleans' Federal Flood's Hidden Race War

[Louisiana1976]

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While most of New Orleans was deluged in the wake of Katrina, word spread that Algiers Point was dry. The National Guard designated the Algiers Point ferry landing an official evacuation site, where flood victims were to be loaded onto busses headed for safety in Texas. Facing an influx of refugees, a group of heavily armed white residents sought to seal the area and to rid the neighborhood of “those who didn’t belong.” As the government collapsed, the city fractured along racial lines. Algiers Point is largely white, while the rest of Algiers is predominantly black. Desperate people began heading toward the west bank, some walking over bridges, others traveling by boat.

While the media portrayed African Americans as looters and thugs, it is now clear that the most serious crimes were committed by gun-toting white males. Militia member Vinnie Rervel says he lost his Ford van in a carjacking the day after Katrina made landfall, when an African -American man attacked him with a hammer. Vowing to prevent further robberies, Pervel and his neighbors began amassing an arsenal. “For a day and a half we were running around getting guns,” he says. “We got about forty.”

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. The militia, according to Roper, was armed with handguns, rifles and shotguns. “There was a few people who got shot around here,” said Roper. “I know of at least three people who got shot. I know one was dead ’cause he was on the side of the road.”

While white vigilantes killed an estimated total of eleven African American victims, local police have never conducted investigations. So far, the crimes have gone unpunished.

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[KamaAina]

1. This took place a mile or so from the more widely publicized incident on the bridge

in which Gretna city cops (city mostly white; cops pretty much all so) stopped evacuees (overwhelmingly African American) from entering Gretna at gunpoint. :scared:

[gratuitous]

2. Oh no, not racism

We're just so post-racist as a society, that anyone who ascribes anything to racism is just being lazy or racist themselves! It's just coincidental that all those murdered people happened to be black. 'Scuse me while I go watch the Glenn (the extra "n" is for knowledge!) Be_k Show. Time magazine had him on their cover, you know, so he must be real smart and important.

[damntexdem]

3. Lynching has long been hidden in America.

Somehow, the MSM just can't seem to see it.