From the 'Sent Mail': THEM!

From: The Mighty Favog
To: ***@***.com
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 22:59
Subject: Re: New Orleans in the throes of Katrina, and apocalypse

Favog, all I can tell you is my brother-in-law's neighbor, who owns an auto body shop downtown, told my brother in law that he and the other mechanics carried pistols all day because thugs kept running in demanding money. I talked to a Natchitoches friend today, and they're having the same trouble there in the area around the refugee center. It's happening, Favog. Not as much as people say, no doubt, but I submit that neither you sitting in Omaha or me sitting in ***** is in any position to tell people living in it that it's not happening, or that they have nothing to worry about except their own racism. (And what would you tell my mom's black woman friend, the one who said she's carrying a pistol these days because she's scared? That she's self-hating?)

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If there are groups of thugs menacing people, you get the bloody cops to take care of those thugs menacing people. YOU DON'T HAVE THE WHOLE CITY PACKING HEAT AND LOOKING AT EVERY LOW-INCOME NEGRO FROM NEW ORLEANS AS A SUBHUMAN THREAT TO BE QUARANTINED OR ELIMINATED.

And you shut down the wild-rumor mill. I've been through all this before, after the Black Muslims started a riot on North Street in '72, killed a deputy and left Channel 2's Bob Johnson a vegetable.

We were convinced that blacks were going to be storming predominantly white schools (that was an actual rumor, that they were going to rampage in white neighborhoods), we were packing knives to school -- FIFTH GRADERS, mind you -- and some kids were freely calling African-Americans "niggers" IN FRONT OF THEIR BLACK TEACHERS.

I've been there. It's ugly. It's of the devil. It has to stop.

And that African-American lady in *** ****** ain't self-hating. She's small-town scared at the very mention of "New Orleans."


-- Favog