Post by Fela on Sept 7, 2005 11:48:26 GMT -5
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As always, The Onion gets it exactly right:</p>
White Foragers Report Threat Of Black Looters
NEW ORLEANS--Throughout the Gulf Coast, Caucasian suburbanites attempting to gather food and drink in the shattered wreckage of shopping districts have reported seeing African Americans "looting snacks and beer from damaged businesses." "I was in the abandoned Wal-Mart gathering an air mattress so I could float out the potato chips, beef jerky, and Budweiser I'd managed to find," said white survivor Lars Wrightson, who had carefully selected foodstuffs whose salt and alcohol content provide protection against contamination. "Then I look up, and I see a whole family of [African-Americans] going straight for the booze. Hell, you could see they had already looted a fortune in diapers." Radio stations still in operation are advising store owners and white people in the affected areas to locate firearms in sporting-goods stores in order to protect themselves against marauding blacks looting gun shops.
While you're at it, check out this piece in Reason about the utterly false and defamatory rumors that have emerged from New Orleans. As unusually "good" as a lot of the media coverage of Katrina has been, the willingness of many outlets to pass along these bullshit rumors gives me yet another reason to be wary about the media's role in this entire episode.
(Reason link via Tapped.)
As always, The Onion gets it exactly right:</p>
White Foragers Report Threat Of Black Looters
NEW ORLEANS--Throughout the Gulf Coast, Caucasian suburbanites attempting to gather food and drink in the shattered wreckage of shopping districts have reported seeing African Americans "looting snacks and beer from damaged businesses." "I was in the abandoned Wal-Mart gathering an air mattress so I could float out the potato chips, beef jerky, and Budweiser I'd managed to find," said white survivor Lars Wrightson, who had carefully selected foodstuffs whose salt and alcohol content provide protection against contamination. "Then I look up, and I see a whole family of [African-Americans] going straight for the booze. Hell, you could see they had already looted a fortune in diapers." Radio stations still in operation are advising store owners and white people in the affected areas to locate firearms in sporting-goods stores in order to protect themselves against marauding blacks looting gun shops.
While you're at it, check out this piece in Reason about the utterly false and defamatory rumors that have emerged from New Orleans. As unusually "good" as a lot of the media coverage of Katrina has been, the willingness of many outlets to pass along these bullshit rumors gives me yet another reason to be wary about the media's role in this entire episode.
(Reason link via Tapped.)
That pisses me off, the shear the fact that someone thought this was worthy enough to be news. 