[lbo-talk] Letters to the Editor on Katrina, Detroit Free Press

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Fri Sep 9 11:18:08 PDT 2005


I could understand minor resentment that someone got a free appliance when others paid for theirs but to the point of wanting them shot? The idea that looters should be shot seems motivated by some kind of vengefulness rather than fear. I don't understand the severity of the vengefulness.

John Thornton

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CB: Racism is polymorphously perverse. Think of those pictures of people posing and grinning next to a Black man who has just been lynched. Some white people just hate Black people generally, not even related to a pseudo-reason.



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