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Text Box: (and possibly only) popular elected official in Louisiana. BUT IN NEW ORLEANS, THE POLICE CHIEF BROKE WITH REASON. Not only did New Orleans Police Chief Eddie Compass report that dozens of people were killed and raped in the Superdome (which did not happen), he also took no action against police officers filmed looting stores. Some two hundred plus New Orleans police officers deserted their posts during Katrina. Under Chief Compass, New Orleans residents who remained during the storms and whose homes had not flooded, or whose homes had flooded but not to the extent the residents had to leave, had police officers break into their homes, supported by National Guardsmen from different parts of the country, and the residents’ arms (guns) confiscated by the police. In one instance a police officer body slammed a frail old lady who was showing officers her home protection hand gun at their request - something quite legal for her to own and very necessary even in pre-Katrina New Orleans. With the looting, and other crimes which spread throughout New Orleans and remained for several weeks, attempting to disarm the law abiding citizens was stupid. The order to confiscate guns was not enforced against private security guards. So, if someone was rich, that rich person could hire a security guard, and obtain the protection which the police failed to provide. But is a person was not rich, that person was expected to turn their only means of self protection over to police officers who possibly had been involved in looting, and who had been proven to be generally ineffective in maintaining law and order. It is reasonable to expect the police would have had difficulty in maintaining law and order. It was not reasonable to have the same police remove the citizen’s only means of self protection. In some towns around New Orleans, the police chiefs unofficially “deputized” the citizenry. In most areas outside of New Orleans, and on the Mississippi

Text Box: Gulf Coast, and in Southern Louisiana, residents “watched out” for each other, and in many places patrolled their neighborhoods all with the support of local law enforcement. But not in New Orleans. RACIAL HATRED INHIBITS RECOVERY: Not only are the elected and appointed New Orleans City officials still reacting instead of planning; some such officials, such as School Board members, appear to be concerned only with preserving their positions and political clout. This is indicative of the most severe problem the City has in its governance, which is overt racism. New Orleans suffers from severe racism - not just racism by Whites against Blacks, but by Blacks against Whites and other non-blacks. There is a culture in New Orleans that views any attempt to better the community, and which also is any manner detrimental (not disparaging but detrimental) to any Black person, or causes any Black person to have to do something, anything, as being based in racism against Black persons in general and as being something which that black culture will not allow to happen. By way of example, this culture opposes testing children in school to determine the effectiveness of the schools for at least two reasons: First, it may indicate the teachers, most of whom are Black, are incompetent; Second, it may indicate a large portion of the student population, most of which is Black, is not educated to the level at which it should be educated. This culture has demanded that high school seniors who do not pass their final exams, be allowed to attend and participate in high school graduation ceremonies, and to receive a paper that states the recipient has attended high school. This is so that the students who fail will not feel like failures since they will receive a piece of paper along with those who receive a diploma. This culture is a culture of failure, incompetence, and immorality. The elements of failure and incompetence are obvious. The element of immorality may not be as obvious. It is a culture of

Text Box: immorality because it obscures the truth; the truth being that those who receive an attendance certificate are made to appear to be receiving a diploma - and that is a lie and a lie is immoral. Some Black civic leaders have said they saw White people blowing up the Industrial Canal levee. Others have said White people bombed the Seventeenth Street Canal levee. Others have said Black people were left to die with no attempts to save Black people. These are lies. The pictures, television coverage, and science of hydrodynamics, all make the lie of these accusations, just as the film footage and reports of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops make a liars of those who state the Holocaust of WWII did not happen. But these lies by Black activists cause a backlash of disgust by Whites, and an inclination to just let the City of New Orleans rot. These Black racists do not represent the majority of Black citizens of New Orleans. But just as in the past, White racists were perceived as being representative of all Southern Whites, so too are these Black racist perceived as being representative of all Blacks in New Orleans. The decent White Southerners fought against their misrepresentation and fought against racial discrimination and for racial equality and justice. Until Black New Orleanians ( and people in general) do the same, they will be painted with the same brush as the Black racists. This culture is pagan. While great numbers of the citizens of New Orleans profess to be Christians, often saying “Sweet Jesus”, and “Amen”, and some even attending a church with a Christian name, the city has lost its Christian foundation. A few years ago several Protestant “Christian” pastors lead a series of prayer services against crime where the main activity was to beat drums to seek the intervention of

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