Sometimes the matter of race in America is so blantantly and stupidly awful that I just have to laugh. The only other option is to cry, and I'm done doing that for now. The Onion does a nice parody of some of the type of reporting we saw last week during the New Orleans tragedy:
White Foragers Report Threat Of Black Looters NEW ORLEANSâ€"Throughout the Gulf Coast, Caucasian suburbanites attempting to gather food and drink in the shattered wreckage of shopping districts have reported seeing AfricanÂAmericans "looting snacks and beer from damaged businesses." "I was in the abandoned Wal-Mart gathering an air mattress so I could float out the potato chips, beef jerky, and Budweiser I'd managed to find," said white survivor Lars Wrightson, who had carefully selected foodstuffs whose salt and alcohol content provide protection against contamination. "Then I look up, and I see a whole family of [African-Americans] going straight for the booze. Hell, you could see they had already looted a fortune in diapers." Radio stations still in operation are advising store owners and white people in the affected areas to locate firearms in sporting-goods stores in order to protect themselves against marauding blacks looting gun shops.
Other excellent headlines from that same link:
God Outdoes Terrorists Yet Again
Louisiana National Guard Offers Help By Phone From Iraq
-cvj (Via Boing Boing)
