Freedom Failed: The New Orleans Black Crime Wave

PK note: There will be two posts today. I'm in a vendetta kind-of-mood. Next week you'll get The Walking Dead/Atlanta piece and a big article on why The Hunger Games is a vital book for understanding the world we live in now. I'd argue that the world of Black-Run America (BRA) is far worse than the one Katniss Everdeen encounters in District 12. Thanks to each of you for helping make this week a big one at SBPDL. The comments have been excellent. Again, this site continues to grow because of you, the reader.  I say it repeatedly, but this site started as a joke... it's important to laugh, but for me the joke is over (The Walking Dead piece will prove that point with an exclamation mark). 


Next week the cover for SBPDL Episode II will be unveiled. No more talk of next week: let's roll.

We already know that the United States Military utilizes Baltimore and Cincinnati for training trauma response teams, emergency personnel, and doctors who are about to be deployed to war zones across the world. The bellicose nature of The Black Undertow (mind you,the Black crime rate was just as bad in 1921 as it is now) provides these trauma units with an experience that the "real" war zones can't replicate. Understand that the lethal combination of Black-Run America (BRA) - which makes it impossible to hold Black people accountable for their actions, because they point to the "legacy of slavery" as the source of all their problems - and a desire in the Black community to protect Black criminals in their midst through no snitching campaigns will doom any hope of ever turning dying cities into a Green City.

Why wasn't this movie released in theaters?

It was Hurricane Katrina that ripped apart every lie promulgated by Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) and Crusading White Pedagogues (CWP) regarding racial matters. It is a testament to the power of DWLs and CWPs that the reality of what transpired in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has been brushed neatly under the rug. But it's important to understand that that rug is already bursting with other Hate Facts that have a tendency to come bursting out when they are least desired.

New Orleans of 2011 is a war zone. It's a war zone because the citizens of the Black Undertow in a city with the mantra "Laissez les bons temps roule" have been granted unlimited freedom, because people are fearful of the consequences that would accompany pointing out the obvious: New Orleans doesn't have a crime problem; New Orleans has a Black problem.

 Across the nation, affluent Black people are escaping migrating away from citizens of The Black Undertow, just as white people have been doing for years. Regardless of the city, what is left behind is a facsimile of New Orleans.


If you've noticed, Freedom Failed has become a new theme here. You didn't have to be inside the Super Dome in New Orleans back in September of 2005 to realize the truth of this statement. Every citizen of New Orleans had the freedom to leave the city before the hurricane hit; it was those who failed in exercising that freedom who turned New Orleans into an even more lawless version of its self.

Black crime has always been bad in New Orleans, but the recent outbreak of violence has shocked the editors at The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. For anyone who views WorldStarHipHop, you know this outbreak of violence is celebrated in the Black community, videotaped, and uploaded for the world to see.


So what's happening in New Orleans that has fine folks at The New York Times shocked?:

Of all the challenges facing the city of New Orleans, none is as urgent or as relentlessly grim as the city’s homicide rate. It was measured at 10 times the national average in 2010, long before shootings on Halloween night in the crowded French Quarter revealed to a larger public what was going on in poor neighborhoods around the city every week. There were 51 homicides per 100,000 residents here last year, compared with less than 7 per 100,000 in New York or 23 in similar-size Oakland, Calif. 

“From September of last year to February of this year,” said Mayor Mitch Landrieu in a recent speech, after reciting a litany of killings from one city high school, “a student attending John McDonogh was more likely to be killed than a soldier in Afghanistan.” 

New Orleans has long been a violent town; in 1994, there were 421 killings here, one of which was a hit ordered by a police officer. With federal intervention, the homicide rate dropped precipitously but began rising again around 2000 and has been fluctuating since Hurricane Katrina. The killers and their victims are overwhelmingly young black men, according to an analysis of homicide cases by outside experts last March, and sponsored by the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance. As police officials frequently point out to the anger of some families, most victims and offenders had prior contacts with the police, often for violent crimes. Less than a quarter were listed as having a steady job. 

The narrower causes are less clear. There are no large organized gangs in town, nor are there major drug wars, though some killings are turf disputes over the drug market, made worse by the drastic reshuffling of the urban poor after Hurricane Katrina and the demolition of public housing projects. 

Many killings in New Orleans are a result of conflicts and vendettas among small, loosely organized groups, the analysis concluded, but in nearly half the cases, the experts listed the primary motive as uncertain or unknown. Only about half the homicide cases are cleared. 

City officials have been pushing what they call a public health approach, a “paradigm shift,” they say, in a city that has been known for soaring arrest and incarceration rates.

Back in 1921, the Black homicide rate in New Orleans was 46.7 per 100,000. Not much changes, does it? What would a paradigm shift look like? Have the New Orleans Saints play a game every day (during the run to the Super Bowl title in 2010, there were no murders during their games!)?

So even during the evil days of Jim Crow, Black people made the streets of New Orleans unsafe. Almost 100 years later, not much has changed.

Douglas McCollam of The Wall Street Journal shares with us this information:

The violence left New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas strapped to the hot seat. Appointed by Mayor Mitch Landrieu in May of 2010, Mr. Serpas—the former police chief of Nashville, Tenn.—came into office vowing to stem a tide of violent crime and reform what he called "one of the most dysfunctional police departments in American history." In Mr. Serpas's first 18 months more than 60 officers have been fired or have resigned under investigation, including members of the department's top brass. Overall, nearly 200 officers have left for a variety of reasons. (PK NOTE: Nashville has a horrible Black crime problem, which Serpas worked to cover up)

Over the same period, the city's murder rate has risen. As of this week, 164 homicides have been committed in New Orleans in 2011, on pace to eclipse last year's total of 172. To put that number in perspective, New York City, with more than 20 times the population of New Orleans, had 536 murders last year. If New York had New Orleans's homicide rate, more than 4,000 people would have been murdered there last year, about 11 every day.

In response to public outcry over the bloodshed, Mr. Serpas has offered a plethora of reform ideas. His public statements are peppered with references to his 65-point plan to remake the department, the adoption of crime-interdiction strategies such as Project Safe Neighborhoods, and enhanced community policing efforts to help repair the police department's tattered image. 

In March, the Justice Department (which is negotiating a consent decree regarding court supervision of the New Orleans Police Department) released an analysis of the city's crime problem that did contain some insights. Contrary to popular perception, it found that New Orleans' overall crime rate—including its rate of violent crime—is lower than that of other cities of comparable size. It's even lower than the crime rate in such family-friendly destinations as Orlando, Fla. (PK NOTE: what a coincidence, the Black Undertow in Orlando is more criminal than New Orleans)

But that news comes with a giant caveat: The Big Easy's homicide rate (52 homicides per 100,000 residents) is 10 times higher than the national average and almost five times that of other cities of its size. 

Why is the city such a murder outlier? In many jurisdictions, the Justice Department notes, gangs and drugs are principal drivers of the murder rate. Not so in New Orleans, which has comparatively little gang activity or organized violence related to the drug trade. Nor do the killings tend to happen in back alleys or vacant buildings as they often do in other places. More often they occur in residential neighborhoods in close proximity to witnesses. And more often the motivation is not random robbery, but revenge or argument. 

In short, the killing in New Orleans is personal. "What appear to be different about homicides in New Orleans are the circumstances of the events," Justice Department investigators noted. "In reading the narratives of the offenses, one is struck by their ordinariness—arguments and disputes that escalate into homicide."

 Wait, isn't New Orleans the same city that a Department of Justice study found that too many Black people are being arrested? Why yes it is. The DoJ has made a consent decree with the city in an effort to bring about massive reforms, such as these:

The U.S. Department of Justice issued a 115-page report last March outlining what it sees as systemic problems within the NOPD. The findings will be the basis of the federal consent decree that city officials will soon begin negotiating. The report concluded New Orleans police:
• Use too much force against civilians, often don't report it and, when it is reported, too often fail to investigate the incidents thoroughly.
• Stop, search and arrest civilians without sufficient cause.
• Disproportionately arrest African-Americans compared with white residents.
• Fail to sufficiently engage and police the city's Latino and Vietnamese communities.
• Discriminate against women by failing to properly investigate sexual assaults and domestic violence.
• Have subpar recruitment and training programs.
• Use a paid detail system that is a potentially corrupting influence.
• Inconsistently discipline officers, while conducting inadequate internal investigations.
• Fail to sufficiently embrace community-policing strategies.

Why won't white people commit crime in New Orleans? Can't some of the criminality found in The Big Easy be redistributed - like tax dollars are - from the Black community to the white community?

Steve Sailer also noted that the Obama Administration issued a report that noted the unpleasant nature that all 27 instances of police using deadly force in New Orleans in the past few years was on Black people:

From WWLTV:

The [Department of Justice Civil Rights Division's] report found from 2009 to 2010 all 27 incidents of NOPD deadly force were against African Americans, and in 2009 the department arrested 500 black and 8 white males under age of 17, which diverges "severely" from national data.

Disparate impact, I tell you!

In 2000 (the most recent data I can find), the NOPD was 51% black. I can't find anything in the Obama Administration's report on the racial identity of these NOPD police officers they are criticizing. That seems like a bit of an omission for a Civil Rights Division report, no? How often does that division forget to mention the racial makeup of an organization they are criticizing?

Back in 2009, McCollam was high on the prospects of turning New Orleans into the Portland of the South for Stuff White People Like (SWPL) white people:

The Saints' arrival in a refurbished Superdome in the fall of 2006 marked a symbolic resurrection for the team and the city. Since then an unmistakable halo of optimism has hovered over both. The city's population has rebounded to about three-fourths of its pre-storm level. And after decades of losing its best and brightest to the wider world, the city's brain drain has become a brain gain. Dedicated 20 and 30-somethings from around the country are showing up in force, in part to aid with the still ongoing rebuilding effort, but drawn also because New Orleans, in its post-Katrina incarnation, has become something of a testing lab for new ideas. 

In the battered Ninth Ward, hot young architects work with groups such as Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation to build ecofriendly housing. Teach For America and other organizations have taken over large swaths of the derelict school system, helping push it to the forefront of America's charter-school movement. Tax incentives and an arts-friendly environment have turned the city into a Hollywood hub, with more than 40 films shot in New Orleans in the past two years. Recently, TV auteur David Simon began filming his upcoming HBO series "Treme" around town, a show focusing on the lives of New Orleans musicians after Katrina.

 Why is America dying? Why are our major cities in need of Jack Kemp approved enterprise zones? Because people are afraid to shop there, which means businesses are uninterested in investing capital for building new stores in places like New Orleans. All of this is due to Black Undertow.

Worse, the Department of Justice is going after cities where too many Black people are being arrested (though FBI stats for 2010 show that 53 percent of known murders were committed by Black people, who represent only 13 percent of the population).


City Journal published this about New Orleans, which underscores why so many consumers are now using online shopping outlets -- because they don't want to drive into shopping centers, outdoor malls, etc., that are also frequented by the Black Undertow:

Day in and day out, Katrina or no Katrina, New Orleans is America’s most dangerous city. But the numbers don’t tell the whole story. White and black residents, rich and poor, of good neighborhoods and bad, are afraid to go out at night beyond the clear boundaries of well-patrolled areas like the heart of the French Quarter—and night means 6:00 pm, not 2:00 am. Everyone in New Orleans knows someone who has been violently mugged—and everyone knows someone who knows someone who has been violently killed.

The violence is often random but never surprising: a young mother and her seven-year-old daughter shot to death in their home. A 90-year-old former school principal, the widow of the former chancellor of Southern University, and her adult daughter shot and stabbed to death in their home. A Vietnamese immigrant murdered in her grocery store. A middle-aged craftsman shot to death and burned in his home. A young, mentally impaired man shot as target practice in a housing project. A tourist bludgeoned to death near his business-district hotel.

Freedom failed.

There's a movie I've been dying to see called Sinners and Saints about a white cop and his struggles during Hurricane Katrina. It's my belief the producers of the film can't find a studio to release it because the movie depicts some of the truth that DWLs and CWPs like swept under the rug.

Worse, our Department of Justice is actively trying to place more yes-men into police departments across the nation who will work to make a more BRA-friendly organization, undermining the safety of civilians in the process.

The United States of America will have another "Katrina" moment (it is my belief it will be based around EBT Cards/Food Stamps). This time, it won't be an act of nature that shows us the truth; it will be an act that could have been avoided but one that BRA made inevitable

But Where's Blackwater (XE)? Japan 2011 vs. New Orleans 2005

Visiting Drudgereport.com the past few days has been emotionally difficult. The devastation in Japan from the 9.0 earthquake is horrific, a powerful reminder that the forces of nature can never be tamed by man.

Blackwater was needed after Katrina to make sure emergency workers would be safe

A 9.0 earthquake is the energy equivalent of 474 megatons of TNT explosive force. The earthquake in Haiti, a 7.0, was the equivalent of 474 kilotons of TNT. What was unleashed by this explosive force is captured vividly in this video.

Entire cities were destroyed in a moment, battered by powerful waves that rendered once happy homes, busy markets and businesses a painful memory of a past nature swiftly uprooted.

100,000 troops will be deployed to help the stranded.There is no need for order to be restored. The Japanese are resilient, and though hundreds of thousands lack electricity, water, food and shelter, looting and rioting is not occurring.

Blackwater (now called XE) is not required to restore order to a nation that just endured a disaster ripped from the pages of a Toho Company script.

New Orleans in 2005 during the aftermath of Katrina was a completely different story. The racial aspects of the Japanese earthquake survivors and those in New Orleans are a stark reminder that though man can not tame nature, the worst impulses of man's nature can be tamed. Or they can be indulged.

In Japan, family, community, honor and loyalty are ideals that hold that nation together, even as the waters recede into the ocean reveling a hellish terrain that once was home. The threat of a nuclear meltdown isn't enough to conjure excesses that would replicate the behaviors of a much different community outside the Superdome in 2005.

In New Orleans during Katrina, a distinct portion of that community showcased for the world to see that nature has the ability to wash away man's civil mask, revealing the fragile reality of disorder within our nation. It only takes the absence of order to render one segment of the American population into a bubbling vat of chaos.

It took Blackwater engaging the Black rioters of New Orleans to restore order in a city where only Shania Twain CDs remained at a looted and pillaged Wal-Mart store:

In an hour long conversation I had with four Blackwater men, they characterized their work in New Orleans as "securing neighborhoods" and "confronting criminals." They all carried automatic assault weapons and had guns strapped to their legs. Their flak jackets were covered with pouches for extra ammunition.



Blackwater is not alone. As business leaders and government officials talk openly of changing the demographics of what was one of the most culturally vibrant of America's cities, mercenaries from companies like DynCorp, Intercon, American Security Group, Blackhawk, Wackenhut and an Israeli company called Instinctive Shooting International (ISI) are fanning out to guard private businesses and homes, as well as government projects and institutions. Within two weeks of the hurricane, the number of private security companies registered in Louisiana jumped from 185 to 235. Some, like Blackwater, are under federal contract. Others have been hired by the wealthy elite, like F. Patrick Quinn III, who brought in private security to guard his $3 million private estate and his luxury hotels, which are under consideration for a lucrative federal contract to house FEMA workers.



A possibly deadly incident involving Quinn's hired guns underscores the dangers of private forces policing American streets. On his second night in New Orleans, Quinn's security chief, Michael Montgomery, who said he worked for an Alabama company called Bodyguard and Tactical Security (BATS), was with a heavily armed security detail en route to pick up one of Quinn's associates and escort him through the chaotic city. Montgomery told me they came under fire from "black gangbangers" on an overpass near the poor Ninth Ward neighborhood. "At the time, I was on the phone with my business partner," he recalls. "I dropped the phone and returned fire."


Montgomery says he and his men were armed with AR-15s and Glocks and that they unleashed a barrage of bullets in the general direction of the alleged shooters on the overpass. "After that, all I heard was moaning and screaming, and the shooting stopped. That was it. Enough said."

A 2010 flood in Nashville required no such intervention on the part of Blackwater (XE) to restore order.

Before emergency workers, food, water, and the US Army could get to New Orleans, Blackwater was sent in to restore order. They did their job.

They won't be needed in Japan.

There's not much else to say. Mother nature has the tendency to simultaneously bring out the best in man and the worst in man. Let Japan in 2011 vs. New Orleans in 2005 be a lesson for us all.

I'm not a geologist nor am I a seismologist. But I do know that an earthquake hit New Zealand two weeks ago and Japan on Friday. Both nations are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. So is California.

If an earthquake of the magnitude of the one that hit Japan were to strike Los Angeles, what type of behavior would the inhabitants of the City of Angels exhibit? What we see now in Japan or what we saw in Katrina?

I imagine XE would be called in immediately.

Katrina Turns 5: She's Growing up so Fast!

What a birthday party! Over the weekend Hurricane Katrina turned five-years-old; and to commemorate this milestone much ink and television coverage was devoted to doting over her in the required, obligatory terms.

The legacy of Katrina, said the President, must be "not one of neglect, but of action; not one of indifference, but of empathy; not of abandonment, but of a community working together to meet shared challenges." Political leaders and citizens alike should take those words to heart when times get tough and when issues threaten to divide us.

A much longer birthday party is planned for Hurricane Katrina as we will discuss the tantrum she tossed in New Orleans back in 2005 tonight and the legacy of her one shining moment, where we learned what would happen on a day without white people.

A few brave writers have dared write about Katrina in a manner befitting her memory, but they failed to realize that at this party only one group of people are allowed to cry. Remember, it's always their party and they'll never stop crying.

That brief week at the end of August and into the early part of September 2005 in New Orleans showed to America what will happen when a natural disaster strikes and what a day without white people will bring. Recall the floods that ravaged the city of Nashville earlier this year and consider the lack of news that story provided.

The silence of the media was deafening, as Nashville residents dealt with the disaster without the media broadcasting sob stories to the world and with no reports of helicopters being shot at nor wide-scale looting by police officers.

Worse, New Orleans has elected a white mayor and is in danger of losing its historical population that the media showcased incessantly during those fabled days in late August/early September of 2005:

Before Katrina, New Orleans was more than two-thirds Blacks. A recent study by Brown University sociologist John Logan found that New Orleans is at risk of losing as much of 80 percent of its Black population. Some officials predict that the reconstructed New Orleans will be predominately White. The transitioning is already clear. After Katrina, the city’s Black population is down to approximately 20 percent, says Mr. Lee. Predominantly White areas are bouncing back first. The signs of recovery are everywhere in the French Quarter, which is more than 90 percent White.

There, café and restaurant owners have begun opening their doors, allowing the tantalizing smells of fresh beignets, chicory-flavored coffee and spicy jambalayas to permeate the air. Curio shops are already peddling Hurricane Katrina-inspired T-shirts along with feathery Mardi Gras masks, and Bourbon Street is rich again with the sounds and smells of human excess. Moreover, the faint sounds of a throbbing bass chord and the whine of a brass horn wafts along the night breeze.

Areas where white people returned to in Post-Katrina have recovered and experienced growth, renewal and prosperity. The city that most people evacuated in August of 2005 and left under the watchful eye of both nature and Black people has regained one notorious accolade: most dangerous city in America. Cities that welcomed residents of pre-Katrina New Orleans also welcomed a spike in crime.

The gangs of New Orleans have long been rightfully feared, though Saints games have a calming effect on the population:

Maybe you use bizarre trends, such as an NOPD cop telling me the 911 calls almost stop when the Saints play and there's been only one murder during a game this year.

So Happy Fifth Birthday Hurricane Katrina. We saw what happens when you remove white people from the equation of modern civilization, and the result is barbarism courtesy of a real-life scenario The Crazies could only call fiction.

We at SBPDL won't forget the real story that Hurricane Katrina provided and no, it is not the one that The Nation attempted to spin-off duplicitous intentions. The Black police officers looted stores - though, strangely, they left Shania Twain CDs alone - and abandoned their job of maintaining law and order.

In the absence of law and order, any semblance of justice must be swift and without remorse to dissuade those remaining from leaving the realm of saints to become sinners.

There is no denying what Hurricane Katrina showed to the world. Haiti has been showing it for years and South Africa has gradually started to hint at what is to come. Recent Section 8 riots in Atlanta only showed how quickly things can descend to what we saw in The Big Easy those five days in 2005.

A day without white people is a notion that should chill the Talented Tenth to the bone, for it is Hurricane Katrina that sits atop the list of Stuff Black People Don't Like without equal. President George W. Bush became the face of blame in the whole sordid affair, but to truly see who is at fault would require Disingenuous White Liberals to look into the mirror along with those that they continuously enable, Black people.

There are those who would forget Hurricane Katrina and consign the real lesson of that event to the deepest recesses of the internet, buried under an avalanche of useless stories of hope amid the rebuilding.

Oh, and one more thing: it has recently come out that police were told by superiors that they had the authority to shoot looters:

In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot looters, according to present and former members of the New Orleans Police Department.

It's not clear how broadly the order was communicated. Some officers who heard it say they refused to carry it out. Others say they understood it as a fundamental change in the standards on deadly force, which allow police to fire only to protect themselves or others from what appears to be an imminent physical threat.

The accounts of orders to "shoot looters," "take back the city," or "do what you have to do" are fragmentary. It remains unclear who originated them or whether they were heard by any of the officers involved in shooting 11 civilians in the days after Katrina. Thus far, no officers implicated in shootings have used the order as an explanation for their actions. Only one of the people shot by police -- Henry Glover -- was allegedly stealing goods at the time he was shot.

Still, current and former officers said the police orders -- taken together with tough talk from top public officials broadcast over the airwaves -- contributed to an atmosphere of confusion about how much force could be used to combat looting.

In one instance captured on a grainy videotape shot by a member of the force, a police captain relayed the instructions at morning roll call to cops preparing for the day's patrols.

"We have authority by martial law to shoot looters," Captain James Scott told a few dozen officers in a portion of the tape viewed by reporters. Scott, then the commander of the 1st district, is now captain of the special operations division.

To those who suffered in Mississippi and other parts of Louisiana, we hope you have recovered. We now present for you a number of videos that commemorate Hurricane Katrina's fifth birthday. Like a parent who sees the early years of their child's life go by quickly, we at SBPDL can only marvel at how quickly the lessons of that event have been forgotten.

After all, it was documented so well. Just see below.

#51. The Nashville Flood

Natural disasters have the ability to bring out the best in people and in many cases, the worst. Tornadoes that level small towns draw families - whose every possession now litters roadways – together.

In the seminal book Bowling Alone, Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam bemoaned the declining sense of community in America (which eerily parallels the decline of Pre-Obama America), and it is in natural calamities that people showcase their innate kindness and benevolence.

In the earthquake that ravaged Haiti, billions of dollars was sent by people in America to help that already beleaguered nation. Curiously, the same gifts to the nation of Chile were small when compared to the generosity bestowed to the Haitians, even thought the earthquake that hit the South American nation was of much greater severity and ferocity.

Looking back on Hurricane Katrina that ravaged New Orleans in 2005, one can again see the outpouring of grief from Americans for those people unfortunate enough to leave the city before intense flooding, panic and widespread looting was afoot. Lawlessness raged in New Orleans prior to the hurricane, just as lawlessness raged in Haiti prior to the earthquake.

In both cases, an outpouring of donations and relief was given philanthropically to the citizens who were incapable of containing the aftermath of Mother Nature themselves. The Chileans were ignored.

You recall, Kanye West went on national TV in 2005 and stated that “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people,” as the rapper decided the president’s response to the ongoing looting, murder and mayhem in New Orleans was the fault of a white president, when it was Black people engaging in said activity.

However, a flood of much greater brutality has devastated another southern city as of late, and yet the media is curiously absent from covering this remorseless act of nature. Oddly, incidents of rioting, looting, murdering and congregating inside a sports arena are noticeably absent from the news emanating out of Nashville.

Instead, citizens working together for the common good of overcome nature’s tragic indifference are all that seems to be transpiring. No “We are the World” telethons are being conducted to raise needed funds to combat the emotionless water that rises in Nashville, flooding such landmarks as the Grand Ole Opry.

Black people in others city paying attention to the flood in Nashville can only look on with utter horror at the dignity and civility in which the citizens of that town go about helping one another out to battle the forces of nature, without demanding governmental aid. The home of country music, Toby Keith has yet to get on national TV and state that “Barack Obama doesn’t care about white people."

Instead, citizens of Nashville fight the flood themselves and in the process illustrate that the thesis of the book Bowling Alone is grossly inaccurate. Whitopia’s still possess the ability to maintain a culture that breeds commonality and trust among their citizenry.

Indeed, it is times of trouble and anguish that neighbors showcase their true colors either pulling together to overcome obstacles that could endanger a fellow citizen or engaging in behavior more akin to anarchy. An odd correlation between the number of white people present in a city or country (think Chile) and the response to the natural disaster is appearing. Conversely, the amount of Black people and the exacerbation of a natural disaster only ensure the complete ruination of that city (New Orleans) or nation (Haiti).

In the case of the latter, millions upon millions of dollars will be collected through private philanthropy to help rebuild what was already broken – Haiti was a mess prior to the quake, New Orleans was the most dangerous city in America before 2005 and recently reclaimed that title though its Black population had been dispersed throughout the south – while Nashville will be left to rebuild by the citizens of that city alone.

One writer for Newsweek stated the flood in Nashville didn’t provide a strong enough “narrative” to warrant massive news coverage, despite writing that the flood could end up being one of the most expensive natural disasters in U.S. history a mere paragraph before:

As you may have heard, torrential downpours in the southeast flooded the Tennessee capital of Nashville over the weekend, lifting the Cumberland River 13 feet above flood stage, causing an estimated $1 billion in damage, and killing more than 30 people. It could wind up being one of the most expensive natural disasters in U.S. history.

Or, on second thought, maybe you didn't hear. With two other "disasters" dominating the headlines—the Times Square bombing attempt and the Gulf oil spill—the national media seems to largely to have ignored the plight of Music City since the flood waters began inundating its streets on Sunday. A cursory Google News search shows 8,390 hits for "Times Square bomb" and 13,800 for "BP oil spill." "Nashville flood," on the other hand, returns only 2,430 results—many of them local. As Betsy Phillips of the Nashville Scene writes, "it was mind-boggling to flip by CNN, MSNBC, and FOX on Sunday afternoon and see not one station even occasionally bringing their viewers footage of the flood, news of our people dying."

So why the cold shoulder? I see two main reasons. First, the modern media may be more multifarious than ever, but they're also remarkably monomaniacal. In a climate where chatter is constant and ubiquitous, newsworthiness now seems to be determined less by what's most important than by what all those other media outlets are talking about the most.

Many people now openly wonder if Barack Obama doesn’t like white people for his callow attitude toward refraining to acknowledge the floods in Nashville (recall, he spoke of the great tragedy that was the earthquake in Haiti mere hours after it hit Port-au-Prince) bespeaks someone completely neutral to the calamity unfolding in the heart of Tennessee.

This is besides the point and a query that is unnecessarily asked. Instead, the question Black people should be asking themselves is why is Nashville unlike New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?

Why is the National Guard not being called into duty to police the streets of Nashville as they were needed to do in New Orleans of 2005 (and potentially war-torn Black areas of Chicago in 2010)?

The Tennessean reports on areas of Nashville that have received scant help from the government save the kindness of neighbors:

"If it wasn't for individuals saying, 'I'll help,' we'd be in a bad situation," East Nashville Councilman Jamie Hollin said. "I'm not sure what government infrastructure support we've received, if any. The reason East Nashville has done so well is because of its volunteers stepping up to the plate and taking ownership of this situation."

Unlike “The Chocolate City” New Orleans, Nashville doesn’t have as many pitiful Black faces to showcase to the nation and cause feelings of inadequacy and self-pity among Disingenuous White Liberals. Unlike Atlanta, Birmingham, Detroit and other majority Black municipalities that are poorly run and stand on the verge of collapse and ruination (currently and if a national disaster hit), Nashville is a majority white city:

As of the 2005-2007 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, White Americans made up 64.8% of Nashville's population; of which 60.2% were non-Hispanic whites. Blacks or African Americans made up 28.3% of Nashville's population; of which 28.1% were non-Hispanic blacks. American Indians made up 0.3% of the city's population. Asian Americans made up 3.1% of the city's population. Pacific Islander Americans made up less than 0.1% of the city's population. Individuals from some other race made up 2.4% of the city's population; of which 0.1% were non-Hispanic. Individuals from two or more races made up 0.9% of the city's population; of which 0.8% were non-Hispanic. In addition, Hispanics and Latinos made up 7.3% of Nashville's population.

White people helping out white people is inherently racist, which is why philanthropy must always go from white people to blighted Black cities or nations (or the entire continent of Africa). Giving money to fellow white people makes little sense to white people, as they only feel moral superior when they give their money to piteous Black people. As the situation in Nashville illustrates, white people are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves.

Thus, why the Nashville flood is receiving a complete media blackout, and why precious few dollars flow into the city in the form of relief for those citizens who dare band together and brave the elements and flood alone.

Like the flood that ravaged Des Moines, Iowa a few years back, the act of nature affected the wrong population group. Had it been Cleveland, Ohio instead of lily-white Des Moines, then the national news would have had a natural disaster worth covering.

Stuff Black People Don’t Like includes the flood in Nashville, for the stark differences between disparate demographic groups battling the uncontrollable elements is once again on display for the world to see. Haiti vs. Chile once round one. New Orleans vs. Nashville is round two.

The white response to natural disasters is now cemented through the peaceful flood battle in Nashville, while the Black response is sadly remembered through Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the tragedy that continues to befall Haiti.

When – not if – a situation like the one in Greece (national insolvency) occurs in the United States, would you rather be in a city like Nashville or New Orleans?

#601. The New Orleans Saints Losing

Sports will always matter. People who refuse to acknowledge the power of sports in changing American minds and influencing individual perceptions lack a basic understanding of the world.

Consider what Jackie Robinson did for Black people when he integrated baseball (a sport Black people oddly refuse to play now) in 1947:

“The integration of organized baseball preceded the civil-rights revolution, and in reality baseball helped make later reforms politically feasible by giving white Americans black heroes with whom to identify.”

We have briefly discussed Invictus, a film that explores why the Afrikaners finally capitulated to African National Congress (ANC) rule in South Africa: the ability to play international rugby.

It is anecdotally stated that the 1970 Southern California- Alabama football contest did more to bring integration to the Southern states than any Civil Rights activists could ever have hoped to attain.

The defeat by a racially integrated Trojan team over the all-white Crimson Tide was enough to convince Bear Bryant that to compete in college football, Black players would be necessary.

More importantly, the winning ways of the 2009 New Orleans Saints have propelled that town into a euphoric sense of racial solidarity that not even the election of the post-racial Mein Obama could create:

“Few things unite New Orleans in this way: Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest and now -- perhaps more than ever -- the Saints.

With every victory, the Saints (13-0) improve not only their record but also the city's infamously complex and oft divisive race relations.

"It's not that it will cure race or magically make disappear the racial tensions, which are rooted in real issues, structural problems, historic inequalities and resentment. But it does remind you that in this city people have more in common than they realize, " said Dr. Lawrence Powell, who teaches southern history, race relations and Holocaust studies at Tulane. "That we can share in this special moment in the athletic history of the city should remind us that we can sit down and talk, as well as cheer and chant and have a good time."

You see, there has only been one murder (!!!!) in New Orleans this season when the Saints have been playing a home game, a nearly implausible trend when you consider the horrible crime rate that the city has long suffered:

“Maybe you use bizarre trends, such as an NOPD cop telling me the 911 calls almost stop when the Saints play and there's been only one murder during a game this year.”

The Superdome, French Quarter and Bourbon Street are the scenes of true “Beer Summits” that have done more to bring a town - notorious for a deep racial divide – together than any piece of legislation, initiative or Act of God could (although some would say the Saints making the Super Bowl is an act of God). The Saints are a franchise that was so hapless, fans would wear grocery bags on their heads lest they be seen attending a game:

“That history includes years in which the team lost a lot and was nicknamed the Aints, and some fans wore paper bags on their heads in shame."

Yes, the “Chocolate city” is seeing a revival of sorts after the horrors of Hurricane Katrina exposed a Haitian-esque constituency living amongst the citizens of New Orleans.

In fact, that deep connection to Haiti that former New Orleans’ citizens exhibited has been transferred to other cities:

“New Orleans police say they have never seen so much peace and quiet on the city's streets.

"We haven't seen a robbery since the beginning of August," said Lt. Troy Savage, who patrols what was once the city's most violent neighborhood.

"We're probably at this point, one of the safest communities in the United States," he said. .

Since Hurricane Katrina forced most of the residents to relocate, police say, the daily shootings and killings have stopped.

"This was the most lethal criminal underclass in the United States," said Dr. Peter Scharf, director of the University of New Orleans Center for Society, Law and Justice. "We were heading for a murder rate of 72 per 100,000. New York City is at seven."

Scharf says, according to city records, there were 265 murders in New Orleans last year, 258 murders in 2003, and 275 in 2002…

By some estimates, hardcore criminals in New Orleans numbered in the tens of thousands, and they're now living in other cities -- Baton Rouge, Dallas, Atlanta, and Houston.

Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt says crime is up in neighborhoods where large numbers of evacuees have settled.

He says he needs 400 new officers and has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for financial assistance.”

Crime through the relocation of Black people was New Orleans top export from 2005 - 2007 and the city rallied around the Saints football franchise and clung to the success of the team like a security blanket.

Sadly, that lone murder occurred during a game that they were losing (although they did come back after the murder had transpired), thus bringing a correlation to the Saints losing and crime since both have such an intricate to the city.

Consider that prior to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans – the former District 9 of the United States – Black people had created a city that was virtually a case study in the nightly news phenomenon that we cited at SBPDL :

In 2003, New Orleans’s murder rate was nearly eight times the national average—and since then, murder has increased. In 2002 and 2003, New Orleans had the highest per capita city homicide rate in the United States, with 59 people killed per year per 100,000 citizens—compared to New York City’s seven. New Orleans is a New York with nearly 5,000 murders a year—an unlivable place. The city’s economy has sputtered over the past generation partly because local and state officials have failed to do the most elementary job of government: to secure the personal safety of citizens.

The president wasn’t alone in his misperception of what ails New Orleans. In the aftermath of the storm, hand-wringers wondered why they hadn’t noticed before that so many American blacks live in Third World conditions—supposedly only because they’re black. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer voiced white America’s knee-jerk best: “You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals. . . . So many of these people, almost all of them that we see, are so poor, and they are so black,” he mused on the air…

But the grisly truth is that awful violence in New Orleans is never an aberration—whether before or after Katrina. Just consider the following snippets from the Times-Picayune, all printed in the month before Katrina hit. They seem just as hysterical as some of Katrina’s wildest tales.

“Violence tests the limits of mortician’s art.” “Some neighborhoods are being terrorized by thugs who have figured out that they have little to fear from the justice system.” “Almost nightly images of violent crime bludgeon New Orleans.” “Violent crime has emerged as . . . an ongoing source of national embarrassment.” “Murders are so common we have become numbed to their sting.” “Killers are killed, Orleans police say.” “The city is becoming scarier.” “Violence shows no signs of letup.” “Three men killed in seven hours; all are shot to death on New Orleans streets.” “After a short reprieve from murder and mayhem in New Orleans on Friday, six men lost their lives.” “This is Iraq right here in New Orleans. By 2020 there might not be any black people left.” “There’s a different type of murder occurring now and a different type of criminal out there.” “New Orleans area continues to log murder after murder.” “Something must be done to curb the violence festering in New Orleans.” “Now we’re in a bloody war nobody’s safe from.”

The history of the New Orleans Saints is one of a morbid franchise situated in a city renowned for its motto - Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez – and an incredible amount of Black crime that is now displaced among neighboring states largest cities.

The football team though is working overtime to bring together racial harmony in a town plagued by racial animosity that few wish to acknowledge (even though the Superdome is packed with white and Black fans high-fiving in jubilation every Sunday the Saints are in town):

“In one of the clearest signs yet of Hurricane Katrina’s lasting demographic impact, the City Council is about to have a white majority for the first time in over two decades, pointing up again the storm’s displacement of thousands of residents, mostly black…

Since the mid-1980s, black politicians have held virtually all of the reins of power in a city where interest groups are sharply factionalized along racial lines and blacks were once two-thirds of the population. Saturday’s vote indicated a transition is in the making, perhaps similar to the one that occurred at the end of the segregation era here.

White candidates made other gains on Saturday, taking two New Orleans seats in the Louisiana Legislature long held by blacks, and a state court judgeship that had also been occupied by a black judge.”

And like Atlanta, Black people are on the verge of losing power in New Orleans with the election of a white mayor, Mitch Landrieu:

Black professionals refer to the office (of mayor) as “the franchise,” the counterweight to the economic power of New Orleans’s white elite. For the past three decades, the black private sector — the lawyers, businessmen and architects — has relied on the franchise: they may not always be able to become board members at the city’s white-owned firms, but black professionals turned to the city government for contracts and jobs.

But after Hurricane Katrina, Mr. Charbonnet said, the importance of keeping the franchise often paled next to immediate crises, like the city’s shortage of health care facilities, the slow recovery of the black middle-class neighborhoods of Gentilly and New Orleans East, and the widespread scattering of the city’s population. Some members of the city’s black middle class found Atlanta, St. Louis or Chicago to be more welcoming; though blacks are still in the majority here, their numbers have shrunk.

“We’re not attuned to politics as we once were,” Mr. Charbonnet said. But that is unfortunate, he added. The prospect of a white mayor, he said, is “an earth-shaking event.”

Sports help create myths. Sometimes the myth endures, becoming a legend in the process. Other times, the myth dies a violent death, as many have at the hands of the Black underclass in New Orleans.

The New Orleans Saints have developed a myth surrounding them since 2005, as they have become a team of destiny thanks to Hurricane Katrina.

Heath Evans, a white fullback for the Saints, had this to say about the team chemistry in pre-season (notice how it reflects the mood of the city):

"You have some teams that are racially divided. You have some teams that are positionally divided. Some teams divided between offense and defense. Everyone has to buy in and be on the same page."

Nurturing such an environment in the "me generation" can be difficult. If not managed properly, the wealth and fame associated with the NFL can be hazardous to a locker room's cultural health.

"I believe the difference between winning and losing, between first and last place, is this much," Evans said, holding his thumb and index finger an inch apart. "Not every team has great leadership."

This team will appear in the Super Bowl to face the Indianapolis Colts, with a chance of bringing home the Lombardi Trophy for a parade the likes of which New Orleans has never seen.

However, like Black businesses returning to New Orleans, the prospect of a loss in the Super Bowl strikes citizens of the city with a deep sense of dread.

For, Stuff Black People Don’t Like includes the New Orleans Saints losing, for the team’s success at bringing racial harmony to the city is predicated upon them winning. Most of their history was spent losing football games, which resulted in massive loss of life.

With only one murder during the 2009 season (when the Saints played a home game), we have now seen how to bring about safe New Orleans. The team must win, to keep Black people from committing murder. The power of sports can create strange delusions.

The New Orleans Saints seem to be bringing a city together by winning, but reality paints a much different picture. Remember, sports are just entertainment. “Let the good times roll?”… if the Saints lose the Super Bowl, expect business as usual in “the Chocolate City” that same night. Not even the Saints winning can keep nature at bay for long.

Haiti as a Real-Life District 9

Much has changed in the world since this site was launched. The God-like ability of one Mien Obama is apparently gone, and it appears his ascension to the presidency is but a Pyrrhic victory for Black people.

The Haitian Earthquake – a tragedy to be sure, but Haiti and its Black population already was an exhibition of calamity before the Richter scale picked up the first tremors – has showcased to the world the truth of what happens when Black people are in charge.

Hurricane Katrina gave us a few glimpses, but Haiti sheds a light on one of the oldest Black people run nations on earth that penetrates deep into the falsities that protect egalitarianism and give fodder to those who can see.

Black people in America understand this, and despite a deep connection with the plight of the Haitians, realize the Black faces that continually are shown on television in horrific, squalid conditions from Port-au-Prince showcase the global condition of their race in poetic exactness.

Disingenuous White Liberals (DWL) are working overtime to increase the already incredibly generous donations that are sent by more than 10000 organizations annually (this was before the earthquake mind you, much like the complete lack of sanitary drinking water in Haiti BEFORE the 'quake) to sustain a population of 9 million Black people who are incapable of sustaining themselves.

It’s time to bring up a phrase that applies directly to this crisis – that affects Black people only and is merely prolonged by the intrusion of pity-intoxicated, self-righteous palefaces - and is the reason why Black people don’t like global warming and its implications: Malthusian Catastrophe.

Few people dare bring up Thomas Malthus anymore, for population explosions are occurring among only the colored masses of the world (Africa, China, India) and anytime Stuff White People Like individuals discuss global warming they find themselves entering a world where race realism is the white elephant they dare not mention.

What did Malthus predict?:

A Malthusian catastrophe (also called a Malthusian check, crisis, disaster, or nightmare) was originally foreseen to be a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth had outpaced agricultural production. Later formulations consider economic growth limits as well…

A series that is increasing in geometric progression is defined by the fact that the ratio of any two successive members of the sequence is a constant. For example, a population with an average annual growth rate of, say, 2% will grow by a ratio of 1.02 per year. In other words, the ratio of each year's population to the previous year's population will be 1.02. In modern terminology, a population that is increasing in geometric progression is said to be experiencing exponential growth.

Alternately, in an arithmetic progression, any two successive members of the sequence have a constant difference. In modern terminology, this is called linear growth.

If unchecked over a sufficient period of time, and if the ratio between successive sequence members is larger than 1.0, then exponential growth will always outrun linear growth. Malthus saw the difference between population growth and resource growth as being analogous to this difference between exponential and linear growth. Even when a population inhabits a new habitat – such as the American continent at Malthus' time, or when recovering from wars and epidemic plagues – the growth of population will eventually reach the limit of the resource base.”

Watching the Haitian earthquake unfold on television screens in the United States leaves DWLs feeling queasy and desirous of hearing “We are the World” and “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” for they only feel pride and a sense of emotional self-worth when they showcase their moral superiority over those unenlightened souls who dare point out that no amount of money could ever save Haiti (indeed, billions upon billions have done little over the past 30 years).

Worse, a film depicts the Malthusian principle at work profoundly and works to belie the notion of egalitarianism in a manner few Black people wish to admit. District 9, a film set in South Africa, shows us the most distressing situation where an impoverished alien race lands on earth and inconveniences the citizens of that nation with their increased crime and reliance on handouts to sustain their race:

“If you look at the film as an apartheid allegory, it has problems right off the bat. The aliens are loathsome, trash-eating vermin who fight endlessly, destroy property for no reason, and piss on their own homes, which isn’t a truthful or flattering allegorical comparison for actual black South Africans under apartheid.

Apartheid is terrible because humans were denied rights. The “apartheid” of these aliens isn’t that terrible – it’s kind of justifiable, because they’re actually dangerous, violent and destructive.”

Sadly, this description of the aliens in the film has a correlation to the behavior of Black people in Haiti and post-apartheid South Africa (and New Orleans and Detroit) that few wish to admit:

“It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums and Charlene Dumas was eating mud.

With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies.”

This story is dated from 2008, before the tragic quake hit Haiti. This story is after the earthquake:

“Sanitary conditions in tent cities like this one in Port-au-Prince's once elegant Champs de Mars park around Haiti's crumbled presidential palace are worsening by the day as hundreds of thousands of survivors of last week's earthquake cram together to eat, sleep, wash and defecate.

"It's miserable here. It's dirty and it's boring. There's nothing to do but walk about," said Judeline Pierre-Rose, 12, who misses her comfortable home with its couch and TV.

"People go to the toilet everywhere here and I'm scared of getting sick. My twin sisters vomited last night," she said.”

When Black people became the rulers of South Africa, a once-glorious 54-story building in Johannesburg – Ponte Tower – was reduced to the world’s largest trashcan:

“Life in the building became truly brutal after the fall of Apartheid. As crime rose in the once-upscale Hillbrow neighborhood, numerous gangs moved into building. Ponte Tower became a center of organized crime activity, and life in the building become extremely unsafe. Owners all but abandoned the structure to decay. At one point the garbage piled five stories high in the open inner courtyard of the building.”

Yes, five stories of trash piled up inside the Ponte Tower after Black people took over the everyday affairs in South Africa. And worse, Haiti too has had tremendous trash problems as NPR pointed out in 2007!:

“First, we're starting with garbage. Haiti's trash collection system is so bad that on the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, garbage blocks roads and clogs the city's drainage system and canals.”

Worse, garbage and deforestation were leading to an ecological disaster that would have startled even Malthus (and this was all before the earthquake!), all eerily similar to the condition of the Ponte Tower and the city that recently saw the Pontiac Silverdome go for $500,000.

District 9 has come alive in Haiti, and a place that few wish exists is now center-stage for the entire world to see, and yet some families in America are working overtime to bring kids from Haiti to this nation, thus proving SBPDL’s view on adoption. It was that evil Steve Sailer who first pointed out the connections between that film and dire population warnings:

“A screen title at the end of the movie reveals that since the events depicted, the number of aliens (who are, by the way, bigger and hungrier than humans) has grown to 2.5 million. That’s up from 1.8 million just three years before.

Blomkamp may not have chosen those numbers randomly. At this 11.5 percent annual growth rate, the number of aliens on Earth crosses the 100,000,000,000 mark in exactly 100 years.”

Most strange is the phenomenon of dirt eating that had overtaken Black people in Haiti prior to the earthquake, which is extraordinarily similar to actions undertaken by Black people in the United States of America. Geophagia is a trait that is a Black one:

“Rena Bronson of Macon comes home from work and makes a pot of coffee before sneaking off to the bathroom to feed her habit. She pulls out a plastic baggie full of hard, crumbling white chunks and then pops a piece in her mouth.

``I eat dirt with the door closed,'' she said, laughing and a little embarrassed because she is a nurse at the Bibb County Health Department. ``I just call it eating dirt. That's what I do. Every day that God sends that's what I do. Technically, I guess I'm supposed to be crazy for eating this stuff?''

The ``dirt'' in question is kaolin, a white clay mined in Georgia and South Carolina that is used for everything from making ceramics and textiles to diarrhea medicine. For decades, it has also been a folk medicine that pregnant women, particularly black women in the rural South, have used to combat cravings during pregnancy. A recent study published in the Southern Medical Journal argues that kaolin-eating should be classed as a particular kind of problem known as a ``culture-bound syndrome,''…

Haiti as a true version of the aliens in District 9 is a difficult point that must be made, for Ponte Tower and Haiti both have one thing in common: a lot of Black people and an incredible amount of trash.

We have stated without sports, any positive images of Black people would be difficult to find. Without charity, Haiti would scarcely exist. Without pity, where would Black people in any nation and for that matter, Africa, be? That question is one that is the Stuff Black People Don’t Like to hear.

When you pop in District 9 in your DVD player, try not to think of Haiti. We dare you.