Topic: White Kids Talk About Race (Read 9915 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #60 on:** December 23, 2008, 09:41:12 PM »

Quote from: Ted Belmont on December 23, 2008, 07:47:08 PM

This seems as good a place as any to put this: Katrina's Hidden Race War.

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Surrounded by a crowd of sunburned white Algiers Point locals at a barbeque held not long after the hurricane, he smiles and tells the camera, "It was great! It was like pheasant season in South Dakota. If it moved, you shot it." A native of Chicago, Janak also boasts of becoming a true Southerner, saying, "I am no longer a Yankee. I earned my wings." A white woman standing next to him adds, "He understands the N-word now." In this neighborhood, she continues, "we take care of our own."

Icons cannot express.

Thad · « **Reply #61 on:** December 24, 2008, 12:04:54 AM »

Fucking hideous. Real Mad Max shit.

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When he returned to New Orleans months later, he paid a visit to the Fourth District police station, whose officers patrol the west bank, and learned there was no police report documenting the attack. Herrington, who now has a wide scar stretching the length of his neck, says the officers he spoke with failed to take a report or check out his story, a fact that still bothers him. "If the shoe was on the other foot, if a black guy was willing to go out shooting white guys, the police would be up there real quick," he says. "I feel these guys should definitely be held accountable. These guys had absolutely no right to do what they did."

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Around Algiers Point people say they rarely saw cops during the week after Katrina tore through Louisiana, and in this law enforcement vacuum the militia's unique brand of justice flourished. Most disturbing, one of the vigilantes, Roper, claims on videotape recorded just weeks after the storm that the shootings took place with the knowledge and consent of the police. When we talk he makes the same assertion: "The police said, If they're breaking in your property do what you gotta do and leave them [the bodies] on the side of the road."

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Under oath Minyard proceeded to say something stunning. The NOPD, he testified, was only investigating three gunshot cases, all of them high-profile--the Danziger Bridge incident, in which police killed two civilians, and the shooting of Danny Brumfield, who was slain by a cop in front of the Convention Center. Minyard's statement buttressed information I'd gotten from NOPD sources who said the force has done little to prosecute people for assaults or murders committed in the wake of the storm.

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When I share with Donnell Herrington what the militia men and Algiers Point locals have told me over the course of my investigation, he grows silent. His eyes focus on a point far away. After a moment, he says quietly, "That's pretty disturbing to hear that--I'm not going to lie to you--to hear that these guys are cocky. They feel like they got away with it."

Frankly, as fucked up as the rest of the story is, the PD's total lack of interest in conducting any investigations is probably the most unsettling thing.

Brent and I once knew a guy who was the son of a Baton Rouge policeman. (The guy lied about a lot of shit, but I can confirm he was telling the truth about his dad's profession.) He talked a lot about the racism and corruption on the force there. I wouldn't imagine NOLAPD being much different.

LaserBeing · « **Reply #62 on:** December 24, 2008, 02:45:59 AM »

"Baton Rouge" is a pretty fucking ominous couple of words to put in front of "policeman". Especially in this context.

Mongrel · « **Reply #63 on:** December 24, 2008, 03:53:58 AM »

That son-of-a-bitch coroner covering their asses sounds like a real peice of work too.

Detonator · « **Reply #64 on:** December 24, 2008, 06:51:27 AM »

Harry Shearer has a different take on the story.

Brentai · « **Reply #65 on:** December 24, 2008, 08:51:33 AM »

BECAUSE Hurricane Katrina didn't actually hit New Orleans,
THEREFORE We're not racist.

Arc · « **Reply #66 on:** December 24, 2008, 09:32:40 AM »

Mr. Shearer, what you've just wrote is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may Groening have mercy on your soul.

Searching hell and back for the propaganda imagery that the National Rifle Association released after Katrina. One particularly was striking (if memory serves correct), done in the corporate clip art styling depicting a white father perched onto his home's second floor roof, rifle in hand, as his white wife and white children looked on from the window. Below, shadowy miscreants were stalked into the neighborhood.

Thad · « **Reply #67 on:** December 24, 2008, 02:54:17 PM »

Shearer's spent the last three and a half years trying to call attention to the fact that the CW on Katrina is wrong, that the levees weren't up to spec and it wasn't actually the hurricane that did the damage. I'll grant it's gotten tiresome and I wish he'd learn a new song, but he's not wrong. Words matter, and by talking about the flood like it was a freak natural disaster instead of a massive fuckup by the Army Corps of Engineers, we're opening the door for it to happen again.

It's kinda like how I correct anyone who refers to Bush being "elected" in 2000. I'm sure it's annoying, but people need to be reminded of what ACTUALLY happened.

Catloaf · « **Reply #68 on:** December 24, 2008, 03:01:31 PM »

Well, it's still a natural disaster. God obviously willed it because he hates them folks with melanin-contanin' skin-organs. Bush was put in power for them same reasons.

SCD · « **Reply #69 on:** December 24, 2008, 04:59:17 PM »

A² · « **Reply #70 on:** December 24, 2008, 06:24:53 PM »

Conventional Wisdom.

Spram · « **Reply #71 on:** February 11, 2009, 07:37:40 PM »

So... how bout them 'spanics?

LaserBeing · « **Reply #72 on:** February 12, 2009, 05:08:48 PM »

I'm ag'in' 'em.

Brentai · « **Reply #73 on:** February 12, 2009, 05:11:03 PM »

Ah'm sappin' 'em.

Guild · « **Reply #74 on:** February 13, 2009, 11:47:32 PM »

tl;dr but

hi, i'm sean, and i've been a victim of racial profiling

i know what you're thinking

but it's true

while working in a machine shop one summer i was pulled over six different times and got no tickets

it's been four years since i had that job and i've been pulled over once in the interim for going 35mph over the speed limit

the difference between that summer and every other summer?

while driving home from that job my face was coated in a thick, black resin thrown off by the metal-polishing machines i worked all day

each time i saw those lights i thought, "what the fuck is it this time?"

after the third time i caught on... when the officer asked me in a surprised voice, "Er, what is it you do for a living?"

to say that being profiled is annoying is an understatement

it's infuriating

i wouldn't begin to understand how an actual black man living in my area must feel every day

Brentai · « **Reply #75 on:** February 13, 2009, 11:50:29 PM »

...that's hilarious if that's what's going on. I'm almost tempted to soot myself up and go driving just to see what happens.

sei · « **Reply #76 on:** February 14, 2009, 04:16:01 AM »

We don't take kindly to minstrels 'round these parts, boy.

Mongrel · « **Reply #77 on:** February 14, 2009, 06:28:01 AM »

Yeah, I just pictured a SoCal filled with carloads of white kids in blackface as some kind of bizarre (and dangerous) new trend.

EDIT: Also, perhaps Guild's inhalation of all that resin explains a thing or two

Büge · « **Reply #78 on:** February 14, 2009, 09:00:11 AM »

Quote from: Iron_Mongrel on February 14, 2009, 06:28:01 AM

Yeah, I just pictured a SoCal filled with carloads of white kids in blackface as some kind of bizarre (and dangerous) new trend.

Well,

has been looking for a new authority figure to troll...

Spram · « **Reply #79 on:** February 26, 2009, 06:48:27 PM »

Quote from: Guild on February 13, 2009, 11:47:32 PM

tl;dr but

DWB

This is why I wear a blond wig when I drive outside of Miami.

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