yup we gotta get more racist

  • coeliacmccarthy [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Being old and having been politically aware in 2005, I can tell you that this is what's going to happen. There were straight-up death squads after Katrina.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      The way the news demonized the Katrina refugees who escaped to Texas is why I have no doubts that there will come a time when Climate Change will lead to states closing their borders within the US and concentration camps refugee camps filled with displaced american citizens will be a thing.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        The media framed people just straight up hunting black people as "stopping looters"

        • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          the quote that stuck with me from then was:

          i'm gonna put a bullet in anything darker than a grocery bag

          • a dude ON THE FUCKING NEWS
          • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            i’m gonna put a bullet in anything darker than a grocery bag

            I was skeptical, so I looked it up. Here's an interview on it.

            And here's an article:

            Ultimately, Bourgeois conceded that he and other Algiers Point residents formed a vigilante neighborhood patrol committed to shooting any outsiders they encountered because they said “n***ers” were “tearing up” New Orleans...

            Bourgeois — who had also armed his teenage son with a pistol — crowed that he “got one” and promised to “kill that n***er” if he had survived the shotgun blasts. He assured a neighbor that he would shoot anything “coming up this street darker than a brown paper bag” and displayed a bloodied baseball cap that fell from Herrington’s head as if it were a trophy.

            You read that right: his name was Ronald Bourgeois. He wasn't even charged with anything until 2010, and it looks like he spent most of the rest of his life out on bail. "Why would they burn down a courthouse?"

            • coeliacmccarthy [he/him, they/them]
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              4 years ago

              think about what his buddies who knew how to keep their mouths shut could get away with. whole lot of gator-filled swamp to disappear people into

              • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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                4 years ago

                Shit, this guy pretty much got away with it.

                A white man who admitted shooting three black men in a racist attack in Algiers shortly after Hurricane Katrina died Feb. 19, less than a week after he was sentenced to spend 10 years in federal prison, officials said Wednesday...

                In 2014, U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon ruled that Bourgeois would not be able to withstand the rigors of a trial. However, three years later, a Tulane University psychiatrist determined that Bourgeois — out on bail at the time — had regained the ability to go through a trial.

                From what I can tell, the time line is: run a fascist death squad in 2005, not be charged with anything until 2010, maybe locked up until 2014 (but likely out on bail), for sure out on bail from about 2014-2017, go to trial sometime in 2018 and die before you actually go to prison in early 2019.

                If you can murder (at least) three people and spend what looks like a majority of your days outside of custody, that's a pretty sweet deal all told.

            • kristina [she/her]
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              4 years ago

              this guys name is literally bourgeois what the fuck america

            • PartyforSocialismand [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              There's a European documentary that has all those guys that just executed literal children left and right by the evacuation point with all of them living happy lives and either openly admitting or heavily alluding to their involvement.

  • Samsara [he/him,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    lmao. those people should simply sell their property and move. :che-laugh:

  • DeepSeaDiver [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    tbh 99% of US political discourse post-2016 has been "yup we gotta get more racist."

    cursed country, obviously

  • lvysaur [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "THE HURRICANE LITERALLY CAME FROM AFRICA"