Posted on 09/11/2005 11:01:03 AM PDT by Main Street
Briton tells of Katrina nightmare
By Helen Neill
BBC Radio One
Stuart Bird's summer-of-a-lifetime trip turned into a nightmare when Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans.
When the eighteen-year-old and his friends got the order to evacuate the city, like many tourists, they found they had no way of getting out.
Their hotel manager initially persuaded the boys to ignore advice to go to the city's now notorious Superdome.
The pictures Stuart, 18, from Rugby, took show the devastation of the hurricane, and rising flood waters, taken from his room.
Then, running out of food and water by the middle of the week, Stuart and his friends gladly accepted the US army's offer to take them to the Superdome by boat.
They hadn't heard any of the terrifying stories from other "internationals" trapped there.
People were just shouting at us, we were basically getting racially abused all the time
Stuart Bird
Stuart describes the scene as they arrived there as "jaw dropping, it was hell, like nothing you could ever imagine".
He told me that there were "tens of thousands of people" queuing outside for buses. He joined them for what would turn out to be the most frightening 13 hours of his life.
Unable to sit down, move, eat or drink, he says "people were just shouting at us, we were basically getting racially abused all the time".
A man standing next to him threatened to get a "gun out and shoot all the white people".
He saw a woman dragged out of the crowd, apparently dead; "they didn't even bother to lift her off the ground".
Proud to be British
Contrary to reports from other Britons caught in the eye of Katrina, Stuart says that the help he received from consular officials when they eventually reached Houston, Texas, made him "proud to be British".
They organised a flight straight home, and he has worked out that by the time he landed at Heathrow, he hadn't slept for 72 hours.
His mum, dad and sister were there to meet him in what he describes as "the biggest relief ever" (although when I met him at his home near Rugby, he was most pleased to be back with the two family cats).
Stuart knows that he is lucky to have a home and family to return to. He's decided to put off going to university for a year so that he can spend some more time with them.
Pretty shameful behavior.
Our New Orleans sisters and brothers make me sooooo pround.*sigh*
haha pround=proud
Hmmm. The national media in America never reported any of this racism that was to be found in New Orleans.
The only racism we heard of was towards black people.
That's because, in the worldview of liberals, only whites can ever be racists--and they see that as true by definition (in other words, they aren't denying that Blacks may feel hate in their hearts towards Whites, they simply do not consider such feelings to be a manifestation of racism, based on their definition of the term.)
I wonder what excuse Celine Dion would have for this? Perhaps the man was justified, in that he'd never had the opportunity to shoot white people earlier in his life, and was bitter about it.
This sounds as if there were quite a few more than a miniority of hateful black people there. The more educated blacks left town. To me it seems that our govt's coddling and feeding those who won't work has only made their outlook worse on life and made them resent whites instead of being thankful.
Since this catastrophic disaster hit New Orleans the liberal media has inundated us with one baseless accusation and story after another of (white) racism against the black victims. They even are saying that our president 'Hates black people." Then I saw this story of real and blatant open racism occurring from an eye witness account that for some reason the liberal media has not reported. The liberal double standards are there for a reason, I suppose. After all the Democratic Party wouldn't exist without an agenda based on double standards.
Y'all come back!
Kudos to this young man for his fortitude and bravery.
When I saw the rabble that was being herded in to the Superdome I knew it was going to be a scary place for a white person. Kind of like telling a white person they would have to spend the night in East St. Louis.
Can you imagine the outcry if white folks had been shouting this kind of racial abuse at black people?
Oh, and why hasn't any of this been reported in the US media?
I think it reflects the real racism in America.
Im sure that Jesse Jackson will address this racism towards white people soon.
That's only true if one defines "racism" the way most normal people would. Liberals are not normal people.
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