Racism at work [at the Gretna, La. bridge]

Times Argus ^ | 9-14-05

[SJackson]

Vermont National Guard troops were taken aback to hear sheriff's deputies in Gretna, La., talk about going into the black neighborhoods to "stir" things up, to kick in doors, and to intimidate the population....These observations by Vermont Guard soldiers were in line with accounts emerging elsewhere.

Either the Guardsmen and EMT personel are liars, or the sheriff is a racist.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

I think the author of the article is a racist and a liar. Not all blacks are african. Many, if not most, of these people are caribean-american.

Being northern yankee vermont I'm sure they heard what they wanted. I'm sure no blacks down there were saying cracker and whitey.

Maybe it was the do-gooder carpet baggers 'stirring things up'.

[TexasCajun]

From the crimes in New Orlean streets, to crimes at the SuperToilet and ConventionToilet, their fears were justified.

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

I think you may have confused this forum with Stormfront/Liberty Post

[atomicpossum]

Clearly, the administration would have been incompetent no matter who was suffering.

This backhanded swipe indicates the editor's own fundamental bias. This whole column comes from the same skewed perspective.

That said, I've got no problem believing that there are stupid white cracker cops at work in southern towns.

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

The Police Chief of Gretna is a bigtime Democrat:


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[wideawake]

Well, the EMTs testimony - even if true - is not evidence of racism.

And the comments supposedly reported by the Vermont National Guard - which are pure hearsay - are hard to believe.

After all, Gretna is a small community with a not-very-big police force.

We are supposed to believe that this police force was simultaneously blocking a bridge and performing illegal incursions into an area where they had no jurisdiction just to terrorize people for kicks?

The Times Argus is a leftist rag that regularly prints unbelievable crap.

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

Gretna Police Department
City of Gretna, Louisiana
200 Fifth St. -- Gretna, LA 70053

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[SJackson]

I think the author of the article is a racist and a liar...Maybe it was the do-gooder carpet baggers 'stirring things up'

I noted the possibility the Guardsmen could be lying. As to the do-gooder carpetbagger nonsense, write your governor if you're in the south, and request that, in the event of a disaster, he not accept National Guard troops from anywhere above the Mason Dixon line.

[ElCapusto]

I believe this article to be a tissue of lies.

Who, in their right mind, would believe anything uttered by the Vermont National Guard whose name is an oxymoron.

The Peoples Republic of Vermont!

[Labyrinthos]

I've got no problem believing that there are stupid white cracker cops at work in southern towns.

We certainly have a enough of them in the north.

[pabianice]

What utter leftist bullshit. I want to see film and read witnessed testimony.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

One of the nightmares of white America is the idea of a mob of black people. It is a nightmare born of deep fears that go back to the days of slavery.

Well, thankfully those days are gone. Now that we live in more enlightened times we can rejoice in the fact that a mob of black people is no threat at all.

[BlessedByLiberty]

Well I spoke to my aunts, uncles and cousins who evacuated. Some parishes did lock down, not because of racism, but because they did not want to go have to go back into a flooded area and save more people too stubborn to leave!

As I've said repeatedly, my white, Republican, Catholic firefighter cousin didn't ask anyone he rescued what party, what religion he/she was, nor did he ignore someone because of their race.

I wonder how many of these stories are going to be proved urban legends or someone embellishing a fact to impress or "confirm" their preconceived prejudices about the south

Only seeing race in this is, in and of itself is institutionalized racism. That race card is getting might frayed and tattered!

[FearlessFreep]

Well, thankfully those days are gone. Now that we live in more enlightened times we can rejoice in the fact that a mob of black people is no threat at all.


Truth is the only threat they pose is to themselves.

[SauronOfMordor]

At the bridge, they were met by sheriff's deputies from Gretna who blocked their way and fired guns over their heads to drive them back to the city. As the EMTs recounted it, the towns outside New Orleans were unwilling to open themselves to crowds of black people, even a crowd that included children in strollers and old people on crutches.

One problem is the thugs have guns, and the peaceful, law-abiding people too frequently don't see a need to be armed.

Sometimes the armed thugs have badges

Somehow I don't think the deputies (assuming this story was true) would have been blocking the bridge, if the prospective crossers were armed as well as they were

My assumption is also that the civilian thugs decided to stay behind in order to loot.

[AppyPappy]

You practically vouched for the reliability of the story with your little screed.

[livius]

This is very strange, because earlier accounts said that the people who arrived at the bridge were tourists who had been told to leave a hotel and had decided not to go to the convention center or the SuperDome. In that case, it's not likely that most of them were black anyway. And they weren't even locals.

In fact, the two lefties who started making these claims were from California and are white.