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During Katrina, a toxic mix of longstanding racial hatred with intense paranoia, exacerbated by endless media loops stereotyping Blacks left stranded in New Orleans as looters and hoodlums, led to a perfect White storm of vigilantism in Algiers Point, exacerbated even more by the often clueless Mayor Ray Nagin spreading even more false rumors about his own race. We now know that most of the garish tales of endless streams of gangs terrorizing the Superdome were pure media-hyped fantasies akin to Iraq's phantom WMDs, but at that point in time, that only fed the fears of White vigilantes armed to the teeth in Algiers Point, who soon became their own gang of hoodlums terrorizing desperate Blacks seeking help and higher ground.
Now it is time to demand that the law be enforced and justice meted out for what happened during those awful days after Katrina struck. This may have to wait until the U.S. Department of Justice is purged of the Bushites in late January so that the Obama Administration can pressure the good-ole-boys of Louisiana if local officials won't do it themselves, but justice must come or New Orleans will never heal.
To see Thompson's actual article about all this, by the way, go to:
