Katrina's Hidden Race War

by A.C. Thomas

The way Donnell Herrington tells it, there was no warning. One second he was trudging through the heat. The next he was lying prostrate on the pavement, his life spilling out of a hole in his throat, his body racked with pain, his vision blurred and distorted.

It was September 1, 2005, some three days after Hurricane Katrina crashed into New Orleans, and somebody had just blasted Herrington, who is African-American, with a shotgun. "I just hit the ground. I didn't even know what happened," recalls Herrington, a burly 32-year-old with a soft drawl.

The sudden eruption of gunfire horrified Herrington's companions--his cousin Marcel Alexander, then 17, and friend Chris Collins, then 18, who are also black. "I looked at Donnell and he had this big old hole in his neck," Alexander recalls. "I tried to help him up, and they started shooting again." Herrington says he was staggering to his feet when a second shotgun blast struck him from behind; the spray of lead pellets also caught Collins and Alexander. The buckshot peppered Alexander's back, arm and buttocks.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/19-6

cleanse New Orleans. And I don't understand why so many high-profile people from the area never even bring up this shit. Are they just satisfied that the area is 'recovering'? Don't they feel at all bad for what was done down there?

Katrina is like the Wall Street bailout fiasco. Powerful people in high places know what was gonna happen, knew the truth about how desperate the situation was even befor it really hit (i.e., the levees vs. the bad debt made of bet on bad loans). They just let it happen for their own reasons. In both cases, the rich and powerful came out smelling like newly fertilized roses, while the rest of the people either drowned in flood waters, died by gunfire, or just died by manipulation of the stock markets.

does no good when there is not a venue for your opinion to be heard. Look how fast the network shut down the Kanye (sp?) West statements.

Why would they participate in a cover up of hate crimes?