Our Terrifying Ordeal (Britons threatened in SuperDome)

Times Online ^ | Sean O'Neil and Joanna Bale

[Cedar]

This is a sad story. Bet they don't have any plans to come back to USA, and you sure couldn't blame them.

They said: "The threat came from a minority - mainly young men."

[jwalburg]

This must be the same group as in the Aussie story earlier, helping the nurses afterwards and all.

[Cedar]

Yes, I just noticed that. These poor people...talk about trauma.

[RightWinger]

That's great, welcome to America, land of the free and home of the gangs.

Makes me sick.

[ladyinred]

So embarrassing! Of course they were given different treatment. They had to get them out there for their own safety. This is disgraceful and certainly not Bush's fault. Thugs!

[Cedar]

You got that right....home of the gangs. Ruining this country.

[muawiyah]

Glad you're sick. It's pretty much standard UK Victorian adventure fare ~ they still get off on that stuff.

I particularly liked the part where the "Army ordered" them to get into a lager. That's Afrikaans for "circle the wagons".

Made me think of "Zulu Dawn", "Return of Zulu Dawn", and "Zulu Dawn All Over Again" ~ maybe some other stuff ~ "Heart of Darkness" leaps to mind.

Someday we might know the truth of the matter. In the meantime all we have here are a bunch of Brits telling their countrymen how excited they get when surrounded by intimidating looking young black men ~ sure as the devil this country will be inundated by hundreds of thousands of these guys come next rainy season!

[FinallyBackInNH]

But wait a minute... I thought according to the Guardian this morning, the Brits were all left to rot and die in their hotel rooms, because they were discriminated against by US authorities...

[Texas_Jarhead]

It is sickening isn't it. Liberalism and Thug culture have been a boon to black America.

[neutrino]

Ahh, yes. The ongoing celebration of diversity.

[Reactionary]

Aww, you mean the tolerance and diversity crowd are the racist swine we always knew they were?

[LibWhacker]

“The majority of the people of New Orleans are absolutely lovely,”

I see the little twit hasn't learned a thing from her experience and is still spouting that tired old liberal BS which, imo, stinks worse than anything she might've caught a whiff of in the Superdome.

Compare her remark to this one by an Australian fellow who barely got out with his group: "That [the Superdome] was the worst place in the universe. Ninety-eight per cent of the people around the world are good. In that place, 98 per cent of the people were bad."

[sheik yerbouty]

More like "celebrating perversity".

[TNdandelion]

I wasn't born yet, but this story reminds me of the stories I've read where black students were protected and escorted into schools and colleges during desegregation. It's sad that people are subject to such brutality.

[Cedar]

Disgraceful, yes.....everywhere except in the rap music world.

[Howlin]

Why do you continue to insinuate these people are lying?

They have no reason to lie; unless, of course, you think saying anything back about blacks is racist.

[ozzymandus]

Yeah, I'll bet they made it all up, right? Those lousy honkies.

[pa mom]

Do you really think a MAJORITY of NO residents are responsible for the looting and other criminal activity that happened last week?

[No Surrender No Retreat]

RW,
It's not America, but "NOLA and the perps" that is to blame for this outrageous conduct. NSNR

[John Lenin]

Thug Culture

When rap music started becoming worldwide through the likes of the NWA, Queen Latifah and Ron D Mc, a ghetto fabulous trend followed.

Unfortunately, over here in UK, young and impressionable teenagers misinterpreted the content of the artists lyrics.

They tried to emulate the crimes that the artists address in their tunes. But this is not what the artists were trying to achieve. They were trying to teach the young generation about what they had been through and why. Youth started trying to be like their idols and to do this they turned to gang and guns crimes.

Main cities like London are now full of gangs who commit crimes, just to achieve respect from their peers or because they want the latest pair of kicks (trainers).