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Originally Posted by KRL
One thing that was disturbing was one of the wealthy white communities had their police force block off a bridge so that none of the blacks fleeing NO would be able to come into their neighborhoods. It even got to the point that the police started to fire warning shots over the heads of the oncoming inner city people to make them turn around.
The police chief is even acknowledging this and justifying it by saying if we had let all those people come into our parrish, all the stores and homes would have been looted and burned just like New Orleans.
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It's amazing what media will report, and fuckup the truth for the sake of selling the story. You have reporters come to a city where they do not live, some for the first time, and they report like they actually know shit.
For those of you who care about these issues, I can explain. I've lived here my whole life and all of this is total bullshit.
The bridge that was blocked as quoted above, that side of the river has a lot of blacks and low income residents as well. It's not the "rich people" area. That town did not want the mess and choas of new orleans to run rampit in their area. It has nothing to do with protecting the rich, it was police trying to protect their own homes, and their residents homes, period. Black homes and white homes, middle and poor areas, they were protecting all of their residents. They also did not have the supplies or shelters to care for these people. If those people would have crossed they would have looted for food and water, which
I would not have blammed them for trying to survive. I am sure some of them would have done worse, looted for the hell of it and started fires. I also don't blame the police for trying to protect their community from that. That is what really happened.
The other issue, that only the black poor areas got flooded... Damn media is sheep and so stupid. quote: " The mostly African-American neighborhoods of New Orleans are largely underwater, and the people who lived there have scattered across the country. " Note to fools, 80% of Orleans parish is black. 80% was flooded. White rich areas were flooded too. The biggest population of white residents are in Lake View, which the average home value is 500K, 100% of this area was flooded. This "rich white" area was the first to get flooded before the water moved to the rest of the city. The french quarter did not flood because of its elevation, it is above sea level. The other area mentioned where white people live is above sea level as well. Also, god forbid some rich area hired security guards. If you can afford it more power to you, if the poor had the money to do it they would do it too.
The second area to get flooded was the 9th ward, a poor black area, but the water kept going out of Orleans parish to St. Bernard parish which is 98% white and on average a middle class suburb, 100% of the houses in St. Bernard were flooded, over 65K white people, and over 30K homes. I guess they forget to mention this in the story...
So the fucking media, who knows jack shit about the demographics of the city, gets a few interviews from a couple black guys who said they heard "boom" and they create a racially baised article claiming only the black areas got flood damange. Total bullshit, don't believe anything you read from these fucking idiots.