Thursday, June 21, 2007

POPULAR OPINION POINTS TO THE KATRINA EVACUEES

In my circles anyway.Regarding the beating death referenced yesterday,all fingers point to people relocated here after katrina.A sampling of what I heard today...
Black dude:"I bet it was those katrina motherfuckers that did that,those dudes is thuggish and rouge".
Mexican dude:"It was the refugees that did this,they're fucking crazy".
Another mexican dude:"they came from the third ward,right?I'm not surprised".
Yet another mexican dude:"yeah,but it's worse in Houston,right?"
And so it went.
These are all opinions from guys who know better than me what the situation is in east Austin...they either live or lived there,or hung out there.Here's my contribution to the lunch time exchange:
"So,how many are there"?("refugees")
Answer:about 1500.
Second mexican dude:"Yeah,they never left".
The general consensus was that these people did the deed and that they are a blight on the east Austin community and should hit the fucking road.
Wow...did I feel really white and uninformed.
We'll see how this plays out.Should be interesting.

**UPDATE**
The APD had a press conference today stressing that the attack had nothing to do with the Juneteenth celebration in the park...right next door.The head of the EMS said it took them seven minutes to respond because of heavy traffic.Where did this traffic come from?Well,that's a no brainer...heavy foot and vehicle traffic from the festival you fucking brainiacs!
While I'll concede that the festival,in and of itself had nothing to do with it...celebrating freedom and pride isn't a catalyst to murder someone,but I assure you,there were some drunk/stoned motherfuckers leaving that festival and the perps were amongst them,for sure.So,in an indirect way it did have something to do with it.
This is just an example of APD pandering to the black community and walking on tippy-toes in light of the fact that they have a miserable record in east Austin,what with all the killing and shit over the last couple of years.
Maybe the city council will introduce legislation to build a wall....since they have no idea as to how to deal with the issue,or for that matter Nelson Linder (local naacp leader/stirrer of the racial shit).
God,this used to be such a cool town...now it's just a fucked up city.

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