I subtitle this article Getting Away With Murder.

Follow this link to the article in The Nation. Perhaps you will be shocked and appalled.

I was told to look up this story at a lecture by Tim Wise at Clark University last night.

The lecture was Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama.

Tim Wise was a community organiser in New Orleans for 15 years after graduating from Tulane University. He said that the stories about the violence perpetrated by black people in New Orleans after Katrina turned out to be unsubstantiated.  However the violence of white people against blacks was substantiated.  He told us to Google Algier’s Point. This is a neighborhood in New Orleans where white vigilantes shot and killed black people.  Nobody has ever been charged or interviewed by the police about the crimes let alone prosecuted or convicted.

I knew it would be worthwhile to go to a Tim Wise lecture because of posts that I have collected on this blog.  See Tim Wise: On White Privilege and Tim Wise – WHITE LIKE ME. Sharon and I found ourselves well rewarded intellectually for attending this lecture.