Rightie bloggers are trying to put a positive spin on the appalling pictures coming out of New Orleans

Rightie bloggers are trying to put a positive spin on the appalling pictures coming out of New Orleans,

the most striking features of which are the unbroken seas of black faces staring at the cameras from

the hellish, stinking concentration camps at the Superdome and convention center. In the latest of

several posts aiming to rebut the charge of racism in the way the evacuation was managed, John Cole

writes, “This isn’t a race thing. This was a money thing…..” in an attempt to argue that the poor

people were the ones held at gunpoint at the “evacuation” centers. In that the vast majority of poor

people in New Orleans are African-American, this spin can be not entirely inaccurate. What it doesn’t

do is explain the story of these two British girls:

” TWO sisters last night told of the horror of being trapped in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

“Rebecca and Charlotte Scott, 20 and 19 “respectively, arrived home in Reading yesterday after five

days trapped in the hurricane-“devastated Louisiana city. They spent three nights sheltering with

thousands of refugees in the New Orleans Superdome, huddled with other British women inside a ring of

men protecting them after terrifying rumours of rapes and murders.

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Charlotte, who studies geography at Swansea University, said: “The first night was not nice. It was

like a long car journey without moving. “I can’t fault the authorities at all. The US Air Force, the

the mbt and the police were all great.