tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post8441034771021518603..comments2024-01-05T02:53:03.358-06:00Comments on American Zombie: I can't believe Nossiter didn't write thisJason Brad Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-22615832917101598972008-12-26T12:14:00.000-06:002008-12-26T12:14:00.000-06:00Harry concurs:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-...Harry concurs:<BR/><BR/>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/new-orleans-faces-the-nat_b_153163.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-72403551777980048922008-12-24T11:20:00.000-06:002008-12-24T11:20:00.000-06:00This was pretty much my reaction.If someone were t...This was pretty much my reaction.<BR/><BR/>If someone were to do a through criminal investigation and bring charges against anyone who participated in post Katrina violence, I'm all for it. <BR/><BR/>Many of the stories are myth. Many of the people bragging a making shit up. I worry about the people who aren't talking.mominemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517025007146886987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-53196155807497435802008-12-24T01:05:00.000-06:002008-12-24T01:05:00.000-06:00for Legba's sake, we have murderers in this city b...for Legba's sake, we have murderers in this city bragging about it all the time....they were bragging before Katrina and they're bragging now. We're the murder capital of the fucking country....let's frame this thing from that perspective first and then take a look at everything else. Rebecca, this is a ridiculous way to present this story unless you're the National Enquirer. Surely you see that...no?Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-57886849694329649012008-12-23T22:48:00.000-06:002008-12-23T22:48:00.000-06:00If they were hamming it up for the camera, it's st...If they were hamming it up for the camera, it's still abysmal.<BR/><BR/>This has been on my mind all day today. I can't believe I'll spend part of Xmas Eve writing about this, but the follow up post has been percolating all day. Not always a good thing.<BR/><BR/>And yes, we got some huge problems that need to be resolved. Shroeder, as you said, put it better than I could.<BR/><BR/>I don't think, however, that that means we should ignore the possibility that there are possible, alleged (add your own cover-our-asses adjective) killers out there bragging about it on tape.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-37534152115815901202008-12-23T17:30:00.000-06:002008-12-23T17:30:00.000-06:00I thought The Nation was a weekly....my bad.I thought The Nation was a weekly....my bad.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-12306803826650823632008-12-23T17:09:00.000-06:002008-12-23T17:09:00.000-06:00Well, the dude couldn't get a Pulitzer. Those only...Well, the dude couldn't get a Pulitzer. Those only go to daily or weekly newspapers. Maybe if he wrote a book about this, but he doesn't strike me as Studs Turkel, exactly. <BR/> RayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-36889408665217518572008-12-23T15:47:00.000-06:002008-12-23T15:47:00.000-06:00It's interesting you said that because I had someo...It's interesting you said that because I had someone else tell me they were just fucking with Thompson on that video he shot. It would be interesting to find out if they were serious or just screwing around.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-5744119834617009592008-12-23T15:42:00.000-06:002008-12-23T15:42:00.000-06:00Okay, yes. I totally buy that and have had people ...Okay, yes. I totally buy that and have had people I know show me police reports that they gave at the time that were never followed up. And yes, I agree that racism went both ways.<BR/><BR/>But my husband and I lived on Algiers Point, we knew these people. We didn't believe them. It's had me up all night and I'm working on a followup post now that I'm calmed down a bit.<BR/><BR/>It's one thing to hear a report of something, or even get confirmation that the report is true. It's a totally different emotional dynamic when the people who were doing the shooting then bragging about it were folks you drank with at the Old Point.<BR/><BR/>At least for me it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-48541857000775578422008-12-22T16:12:00.000-06:002008-12-22T16:12:00.000-06:00you said it much more eloquently than I. I've read...you said it much more eloquently than I. <BR/><BR/>I've read that story again and thought about it some more and I think it's even more apparent to me The Nation is trying to create "A National News Expose!!!!". I really don't think they're so much concerned about justice as they are a Pulitzer. <BR/><BR/>I really don't have an issue with the fact he reported the story... I'm glad he did..it's just the way he framed it. Then the editor goes on the HuffPo and implies there's a cover up....come on. <BR/><BR/>They're baiting this story. It's really sad to me because there are some bigger issues here which should be addressed.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-38539647971387028642008-12-22T16:11:00.000-06:002008-12-22T16:11:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-39744959271676391402008-12-21T09:28:00.000-06:002008-12-21T09:28:00.000-06:00Exactly my reaction. Extremism in the defense of l...Exactly my reaction. Extremism in the defense of liberty. It's more sensationalism from the carpetbagging anarchists who would rather, in the most intellectually incurious manner, make a lot of noise about a single injustice, than allow into the frame a wider perspective revealing systemic problems. Watch for E to write about this. We talked about it last night briefly. Vanden Heuval and her readers should learn that you can't ask a question like "Will there be justice in New Orleans?" while ignoring everything that's happened in the three-plus years since those first horrific few days after Katrina, to tell the longer narrative of incompetence, secrecy, corruption, partisan agendas, corporate profiteering, and bureaucratic unresponsiveness which has been the record of injustice perpetrated on every New Orleanian by George W. Bush, Baton Rouge, and worst of all, by Ray Nagin. Can we now call Ray Nagin a murderous racist too, because he refuses to fund youth recreation activities to, predominantly, black children, and would, apparently, prefer that they roam the streets dealing crack and heroine? What about the injustice of bulldozing an entire neighborhood to spend more money to build a new hospital, rather than renovate an existing hospital -- and the fact that it's now more than three years since that charity facility was closed? Was this the best Thompson could do? You could easily find a story about racism in any town in America in a matter of hours if you start asking around. There will be a lot of injustices which occurred in those first few days which will go unprosecuted, but what about the record of injustice which has occurred since then? And what about the record of accomplishment driven by a city of people strengthened through their experience of fighting institutional injustice in order to rebuild the city better than it was before? Piss on Thompson. He's an idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com