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(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).

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"A nutty lesbian blogger."
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The Nation: Katrina's Hidden Race War

by: Pam Spaulding

Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 10:00:00 AM EST


You have to read this devastating piece by A.C. Thompson in The Nation about a rag-tag band of white vigilantes on a race-based rampage in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, formed to protect one of the neighborhoods not flooded when the levees broke. It sounds like a nightmare out of another era, but as we found out during this election cycle, the Base of the GOP is clearly capable of this sort of thing.

Facing an influx of refugees, the residents of Algiers Point could have pulled together food, water and medical supplies for the flood victims. Instead, a group of white residents, convinced that crime would arrive with the human exodus, sought to seal off the area, blocking the roads in and out of the neighborhood by dragging lumber and downed trees into the streets. They stockpiled handguns, assault rifles, shotguns and at least one Uzi and began patrolling the streets in pickup trucks and SUVs. The newly formed militia, a loose band of about fifteen to thirty residents, most of them men, all of them white, was looking for thieves, outlaws or, as one member put it, anyone who simply "didn't belong."    

...Fellow militia member Wayne Janak, 60, a carpenter and contractor, is more forthcoming with me. "Three people got shot in just one day!" he tells me, laughing. We're sitting in his home, a boxy beige-and-pink structure on a corner about five blocks from Daigle's Grocery. "Three of them got hit right here in this intersection with a riot gun," he says, motioning toward the streets outside his home. Janak tells me he assumed the shooting victims, who were African-American, were looters because they were carrying sneakers and baseball caps with them. He guessed that the property had been stolen from a nearby shopping mall. According to Janak, a neighbor "unloaded a riot gun"--a shotgun--"on them. We chased them down."

He's equally blunt in Welcome to New Orleans, an hourlong documentary produced by the Danish video team, who captured Janak, beer in hand, gloating about hunting humans. 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."

It continues below the fold.
Pam Spaulding :: The Nation: Katrina's Hidden Race War
... Some of the gunmen prowling Algiers Point were out to wage a race war, says one woman whose uncle and two cousins joined the cause. A former New Orleanian, this source spoke to me anonymously because she fears her relatives could be prosecuted for their crimes. "My uncle was very excited that it was a free-for-all--white against black--that he could participate in," says the woman. "For him, the opportunity to hunt black people was a joy."

   "They didn't want any of the 'ghetto niggers' coming over" from the east side of the river, she says, adding that her relatives viewed African-Americans who wandered into Algiers Point as "fair game." One of her cousins, a young man in his 20s, sent an e-mail to her and several other family members describing his adventures with the militia. He had attached a photo in which he posed next to an African-American man who'd been fatally shot. The tone of the e-mail, she says, was "gleeful"--her cousin was happy that "they were shooting niggers."
Color of Change has launched a campaign to ask Gov. Bobby Jindal to take action.
In the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, White vigilantes hunted down Black men who entered Algiers Point and even tried to expel their Black neighbors. Louisiana's broken law enforcement agencies have refused to investigate these crimes.

Tell Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the racist shootings, and to demand accountability from Louisiana's dysfunctional criminal justice system.

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"Not a Yankee
or a Southerner"- Janak is now a felon.

Is there any possible way of prosecuting him, based on this evidence?

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I sure hope
someone local will ask the same question.

[ Parent ]
'I am no longer a Yankee...'
But still an avowed 'Christian' I would wager.

Probably a fine example of heterosexual marriage
n/t

[ Parent ]
Wow
This is frightening.  Thanks for highlighting this article, Pam.

Sick and Disturbing
But y'know what, sometimes we need reminding of our baser nature, especially when we start believing that we're oh-so-civilized compared to, say ... the Middle Ages.

Thanks for shining a light on this one, Pam.

"There are two kinds of people in this world -- the kind who separate the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't."  -- Gloria Steinem


As a Yankee
I have far better ways of taking care of my neighbors- it involves lending a hand, support, food, money and whatever my neighbors may need.

1. Giving generously to local food banks and fund raisers. Even in the years when I can only spare a few dollars or a batch of fudge to raffle off.

This year, I was able to give far more than usual and feel blessed to be able to do so. Enough food donated to fill the back of my large car, plus 30 extra tubes of exterior caulking- we FAR over-estimated what we needed for repairs on the farmhouse.

Oh, that's right- ATHEISTS can't possibly feel "blessed", can we?

2. Giving outgrown but good condition clothes or when I can, new clothes- like the 2 dozen pairs of new gloves I gave the school this fall (found on sale! Yay!). Trying to give every time the schools ask for any sort or supplies or money. Sending multiple cases of supplies to a friend who then ships overseas to troops in Afghanistan.

But what the hell do I know; we "Yankees" clearly don't know how to help out neighbors like these folks and Wayne Janek do.

Bah fucking humbug.  

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Black America's Dilemma
Black America is under siege from everywhere including from within, the following video is about Black America and the:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...


In an effort to be inclusive
I think these people should be invited to lead the nation in prayer at the inauguration!

Just forwarded your suggestion to the inauguration committee...
...because I thought the event was lacking enough diversity of hate.

[ Parent ]
Dude...
That's your comment? Like, really?

Wrong time and place to be bringing up Rick Warren as this- THIS Right Here- doesn't even compare to whose opening prayer we hear. This is disgusting and these people won't even be prosecuted!

sighs I hoe I'm reading too mucha nd projecting, but that comment just seemed off-base.


[ Parent ]
mte
"I hope I'm reading too much and projecting, but that comment just seemed off-base."

No you aren't, I was thinking the same thing.


[ Parent ]
Meh
I too was appalled by this event; though not shocked, given that I've followed Katrina closely and the only difference between this racism and the rest of it was the shotgun.  On the other hand, I did not see a claim of murder, and I am assuming that in the interest of not going to jail they shot into the air.

I still note a lack of avowed racists in our public ceremonies, when this article shows them alive and well despite everyones claims that they aren't a political group to consider anymore.


[ Parent ]
Nm
Reading comprehension fail.  I apologize, there was a murder and that is reprehensible.

[ Parent ]
Not only were people murdered...
people were shot at and had multiple wounds from being shot!

Do you know how many black men are in jail for stuff like that?! Who didn't even mean to kill someone, but nonetheless somebody died- all the while, these assholes are eating sandwiches, drinking, and carrying on bragging about the niggers they shot?! And it's not like during any other time, but during a time of panic when people needed help and were just trying to get anywhere to be safe, these effing monsters took it upon themselves to not only shoot at people they perceived to be outside of their community, but POC even IN their community!

So yes, you understand why I can't take your comment as meaning anything or even connecting it to a slight about who shows up during a damn ceremony when this stuff is happening...

Sorry, just. Bleh. Angry.


[ Parent ]
Olive branch
We're all angry, I'm in a sour mood today and probably not voicing my opinions correctly.

You are correct to be appalled at what I said.

Sorry,
Sean


[ Parent ]
Horrible
Play the video for a grand jury
It will get an indictment.
Want to bet that someone wearing a rainbow shirt would have been equally unwelcome/dead?

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

[ Parent ]
read some of the comments at NOLA.COM
http://blog.nola.com/notesonne...

There are some sick bigots in that thread. Here's just one fine citizen:

This is what happens when there is total collapse of the entire police system, goverment at the city level and state (for that matter) and a society that has a GREAT majority that is given all the chances for education and head start programs but refuses to lift themselves from their circumstances to become productive working citizens.

There is resentment from the hard working class toward the ones who suck off the government and resort to crime for money and repopulation for a government check. When events such as Katrina, happen in an already crime riddled city, what do you expect? This reporter is trying to make this out of a black/white issue. WRONG... More crime was commited againt whites in the uptown neighborhoods than this little incident...and by the way these people did not live to tell the tale. I dare this reporter to interview the relatives of white people who were shot dead in their own homes by black vigilante groups than had their belonings taken from these same blacks during the aftermath of this storm. Why do you think the police told these people protecting their home to "just pile up the bodies on the side here".

Why did this reporter video these persons while having a Bar-b-Que, relaxing drinking beer? Why didn't he give the same respect he gave the black men and interview them one on one? Was he TRYING to paint an irresponsible picture of judgement, of course he was. Bias reporting LIES...tell the truth for both sides and earn yourself a little respect.

All this reporter is trying to do is stir up and old problem he doesn't understand about a majority of people who choose welfare and crime instead of an education and good work ethic, then when something doesn't go thier way, they throw down the black card. By the way, I've heard the "N" word used more among blacks then ever used from a white mouth, including Jesse Jackson's mouth when refering to Obama during the election, remember? Get over your black skin and join the rest of the educated working human race. You may establish a little more trust and respect so the next time a Katrina hits, we may even be able to work together.



NOLA.COM comments
Why don't they delete such comments? Here the site owners would be convicted for not deleting such statements.

I hope one day this kind of people will have to flee for their lives, not the other way round.


[ Parent ]
Again?
What's up with all these 'lazy black people' stereotypes, as if there aren't lazy white people all around the country on welfare.

[ Parent ]
This sickens me to my core
I can't even express all the emotions that have gone through me since reading this yesterday.
Didn't the shooting victims get reported by the hospitals to the authorities, or did they just assume they were looters and figured they had their punishment?  It does seem either way, the "authorities" just ignored it and continue to do so.

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