"Black hurricane victims . . . eating corpses to survive."

[Penndems]

From Randall Robinson on The Huffington Post:

It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.

I am a sixty-four year old African-American.

New Orleans marks the end of the America I strove for.

I am hopeless. I am sad. I am angry against my country for doing nothing when it mattered.

This is what we have come to. This defining watershed moment in America’s racial history. For all the world to witness. For those who’ve been caused to listen for a lifetime to America’s ceaseless hollow bleats about democracy. For Christians, Jews and Muslims at home and abroad. For rich and poor. For African-American soldiers fighting in Iraq. For African-Americans inside the halls of officialdom and out.

My hand shakes with anger as I write. I, the formerly un-jaundiced human rights advocate, have finally come to see my country for what it really is. A monstrous fraud.

But what can I do but write about how I feel. How millions, black like me, must feel at this, the lowest moment in my country’s story.
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Link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randall-robinson/new-orleans_b_6643.html

[alarcojon]

1. Very powerful indictment

The world is watching.

[Penndems]

4. I almost vomited when I read this

What is wrong with us that we can't help these people? What IN THE NAME OF God is WRONG with us?

[journalist3072]

6. Yes they are...Here's an interesting article

By Andrew Gray
Fri Sep 2,10:16 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - The world has watched amazed as the planet's only superpower struggles with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with some saying the chaos has exposed flaws and deep divisions in American society.


World leaders and ordinary citizens have expressed sympathy with the people of the southern United States whose lives were devastated by the hurricane and the flooding that followed.

But many have also been shocked by the images of disorder beamed around the world -- looters roaming the debris-strewn streets and thousands of people gathered in New Orleans waiting for the authorities to provide food, water and other aid.

"Anarchy in the USA" declared Britain's best-selling newspaper The Sun.

"Apocalypse Now" headlined Germany's Handelsblatt daily.

-snip-

Commentators noted the victims of the hurricane were overwhelmingly African Americans, too poor to flee the region as the hurricane loomed unlike some of their white neighbors.

New Orleans ranks fifth in the United States in terms of African American population and 67 percent of the city's residents are black.

"In one of the poorest states in the country, where black people earn half as much as white people, this has taken on a racial dimension," said a report in Britain's Guardian daily.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050902/ts_nm/weather_katrina_reaction_dc

[Pirate Smile]

2. Maureen Dowd's column title fits - "United States of Shame"

[AverageJoe]

3. I saw this on Huffingtonpost.com yesterday

Is there any independent verification? My God, if this is true I don't even have words to respond.

Please, if anyone has more information--either supporting or debunking--the claim of cannibalism in New Orleans, please post.

[rodeodance]

5. The "It is reported" should give everyone pause to a story such as this.

[Penndems]

7. Understand where you're coming from Rodeo, but if Randall Robinson

is posting this, I trust what he has to say. He's a well-respected author, civil rights leader and humanitarian.

[AverageJoe]

9. Agreed

That's why I've not been insane with terror and revulsion, the way I would (will?) be if the claim were demonstrably true. I hope to God it isn't true.

[xultar]

8. BLACKS ARE NOT ANIMALS. WE CAN GO 4 DAYS WITHOUT FOOD.

THIS IS BULLSHIT.

[Moderator]

10. Locking

Not LBN