Drunk on Stupid
Ignorance is curable—stupid ain’t
"I was stunned in New Orleans at how many black New Orleanians would tell me with real conviction that somehow the levee breaks had been engineered in order to save the French Quarter and the Garden District at the expense of the Lower Ninth Ward, which is almost all black,” Robinson told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“These are not wild-eyed people,” Robinson insisted. “These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that.”
...the fact that so many blacks [believe this] “tells you something about our racial divide in New Orleans."
Infantalized. Class.
Posted by Claire on 09/19 at 09:37 PM
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