[lbo-talk] White, wealthier evacuated first

[Gar Lipow]

On 9/3/05, Denise Reinhardt <denise at creativemediation.com> wrote:
> They don't really care what this means.
> 
> Denise
> 
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> Guardsmen Evacuate Refugees From Superdome
> 
> By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer
> 45 minutes ago
> 
> [...]
> 
> At one point, the evacuation was interrupted briefly
> when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and
> employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head
> of the evacuation line - much to the amazement of
> those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome
> since Sunday.

It is a good thing you forwarded this. The following paragraphs you
included have now been eliminated:
> 
> "How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry,
> they get out ahead of us?" exclaimed Howard Blue, 22,
> who tried to get in their line. The National Guard
> blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed
> guests with their luggage.
> 
> The 700 had been trapped in the hotel, next to the
> Superdome, but conditions were considerably cleaner,
> even without running water, than the unsanitary crush
> inside the dome.
> 
> [...]
> 
> National Guard Capt. John Pollard called the decision
> to move the Hyatt people to the head of the line "very
> poor."
> 
> http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050903/ap_on_re_us/katrina_sup
> erdome_hk1