A Cautionary Tale

It's the season to rehash Hurricane Katrina. OK the season has passed but I had a computer virus and a knee injury.

I watched the recaps, I even watched Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke, Requiem", all 4 hours, thank you very much. But I still had the sinking feeling that something was missing. I wasn't getting something. I could get on a Greyhound Bus from SeaTac Washington and make it down to New Orleans in about 2 days, so I did not get why those people were not helped, by nobody, smack dab in the middle of America. The shows I watched talked about the hurricane and the tragic aftermath but something was missing. Then I watched “After Katrina”, a program on the Discovery Science Channel. This show opened my eyes to the reason behind this fiasco.

What is the greatest fear facing White America? Al Qaeda? No. Terrorism? No. Anthrax? No. Global Warming? No. Economic ruination? No. Public Speaking? No.

I will tell you what that fear is but first let's get back to New Orleans.

When the levees broke and the city started flooding the people who I consider the heroes in this sad tale were in the Coast Guard. They worked tirelessly and saved countless lives. They didn't care that they were potentially risking life and limb to help these people they just did it. Unfortunately they took them to a place where there were people who were not willing to do their job and were possessed by fear. The Coast Guard saved the residents lives, there were supposed to be someone else there to take over the reins.

While all this was happening the Mayor was getting nervous and so was the Police Chief. They knew they had a large population of dangerous gang bangers and drug addicts and they were rightly concerned for the safety of the other residents of New Orleans and themselves. So in their wisdom they decided to exaggerate the situation hoping that the government headed by George W. Bush would come to the rescue.

That was a horrible miscalculation.

This show aired tapes of the Mayor saying there will be pandemonium on the streets and drug addicts will be committing all kinds of crimes when they needed to get their next fix.

Then there was the Police Chief telling the news about all the raping including babies and general lawlessness with gangs and guns.

They must have forgotten in all the hysteria that the number one fear of White America is a finding oneself amidst a large group of Buck Wild Lootin' Shootin' Baby Raping, Dope Fiend Negroes. No White person in America wants to have any part of that, especially Red Cross workers, FEMA workers, National Guard Soldiers, Evacuation Bus Drivers, Redneck Ignoramuses living in a quaint little place called Gretna and no one else for that matter.

When I saw that it all made sense. The rumors started somewhere, The Police Chief already nervous got wind of it told it to the Press, which for them is like winning the Lotto because Buck Wild Lootin' Shootin' Baby Raping, Dope Fiend Negroes makes really good press; and the traumatized victims of Katrina sort of went along with it because they also mistakenly believed that when America found out how horrible things were surely they would send some help pretty darn quick, even if they had to exaggerate a bit. They interviewed a white doctor trapped in the Convention center and he was appalled not at the baby rapin’ shootin’ dope fiends which he did not witness, he was appalled and he did witness thousands of people dying of dehydration, lack of medical care, heat stroke in the midst of horrible despair waiting for help that was not coming.

I even sort of believed those rumors a little, I was sure they were way over exaggerated. But I figured that whenever you have thousands of people forced together under some kind of catastrophe there is bound to be at least one pedophile who would use that opportunity to rape a baby. The looting I had no problem with, because I would have been there looting right along with them because going without water and food for five days in 100 degree heat is not how I roll. Gangs and guns is a given with a bunch of poor black people, right?

So FEMA, the Red Cross, Evacuation Bus Drivers and the National Guard were all there right outside of New Orleans but they were just afraid to go in there because of all those Buck Wild Enraged Lootin' Shootin' Baby Rapin' Dope Fiend Negroes. The National Guard made numerous aerial reconnaissance missions to scope out the area to make sure it was safe for their men. They drove around in trucks with their guns locked and loaded, bayonets affixed, wide eyed and stoned face ready for anything (bad) from those Buck Wild Enraged Lootin' Shootin' Baby Rapin' Dope Fiend Negroes.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Mexican Army and even the Cubans, along with others found in incomprehensible why those poor people were just left there right there smack dab in the middle of the richest country on the planet literally starving and dying of thirst. But they are not Americans they don't quite understand the complexities of skittish White America.

I hope Black America has learned a valuable lesson from this catastrophe. If something similar happens again keep the baby rapin' and lootin' shooting dope fiendin' on the QT. Instead we should just get together and start singing hymns, praying to Jesus and giving testimonials about how much we love White America and then maybe we might just get some help next time.