[uncitizen]

They (black leadership) should also be firmly repudiating the thugs that took over the city

Too late, Jesse Jackson is already on the scene.

and making it clear that most of the black people of NO behaved themselves well and that the thugs are not representative.

There have been some interviews with victims now in Houston who are saying they are ashamed of those thugs and that those thugs shouldn't have been shooting at the rescuers. One young woman said she's afraid of N.O. now because of this and plans to live permanently in Houston.

[livius]

One young woman said she's afraid of N.O. now because of this and plans to live permanently in Houston.

I sympathize with her. I saw some interviews with people, mostly black, before they went in to the Superdome, and there were some very nice people there.

I wish the "black leaders" would notice that these people were as much the victims of the thugs as whitey. But they probably already know that and simply don't care, because for some reason, our political system rewards those who defend and promote the lowest common denominator. I don't know what has happened to us in the last 40 years, but it isn't pretty.