Digby: We Always Worried This Would Happen (N.O. bigotry - MUST READ)

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I had the misfortune to be around some bigots this week-end as I watched the footage from New Orleans. I hadn't heard some of this stuff so frankly admitted since I was a kid (when I heard it a lot.) The twisted, subterranean, politically incorrect world of racism has reared its ugly head.

This is just the latest chapter in the oldest story in America. We should be aware of it and understand it. And we should also be glad that it isn't worse because in the past it certainly was.

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http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_09_04_digbysblog_archive.html#112593748487298276

I wonder what proof there is of all of the claims heard on the news of shootings, rapes, murders, etc. Obviously many crimes were committed, but to what extent? Were the biggest claims exagerrated or fabricated?

We will probably never know.