ADL: Bigots Gloat Over Hurricane Victims; Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Hate
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Distribution Source : U.S. Newswire
Date : Wednesday, August 31, 2005
To: National Desk
Contact: Myrna Shinbaum of Anti-Defamation League, 212-885-7747

NEW YORK, Aug. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- While Americans around the country
watched in sympathy and horror as Hurricane Katrina devastated southern
Louisiana and Mississippi, there were some who looked on with a grim
satisfaction borne of implacable hatred. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
found hundreds of bigoted messages on white supremacist and anti-Semitic Web
sites across the Internet expressing hatred rather than compassion. Though
some white supremacists expressed concern for white victims of the
hurricane, overwhelmingly reaction of the racists and anti-Semites was one
of derision and even glee for the hundreds of thousands of African-American
and other non-white victims.

Realizing that Louisiana and Mississippi have huge non-white populations,
the bigots expressed hope that the hurricane would be deadly and "cleanse"
the areas hit. Employing classical anti-Semitic canards, they claimed that
Jews would seek to benefit from the devastation and that Jewish control of
the media skewed the reporting of the hurricane.

"Once again, the racists and anti-Semites are exploiting a tragedy of great
proportion and one that binds the nation to spew their hatred and seek to
divide the nation," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "While
they may be small in number, their reach through the Internet is of great
concern. Their messages of hate must be countered by the good words of good
people."

Hoping for Genocide:

As Hurricane Katrina made its way across the Gulf of Mexico, heading for a
Louisiana landfall, white supremacists speculated on its possible effects.
Many, realizing that over two-thirds of New Orleans residents were
African-American, hoped that the hurricane would be deadly:

-- "It almost appears to me that the hand of gods (sic) is reaching down to
smite the Southern Babylon."

-- "I'm of the opinion that Mother Nature would be doing everybody a favor
by cleansing the inner city."

-- "It would be great if all the Whites could be evacuated and they could
leave the groids/muds behind but we know that won't happen. The best we can
hope for is that the best architecture stands and the casualties keep the
n----r funeral homes busy."

Wishes for mass casualties became common among white supremacists as the
hurricane approached:

-- "Let us bow our heads and pray together that half the jig population of
New Orleans stayed behind to do some lootin' and this one finishes them all
off. And Lord, let's hope all the faggots in the French Quarters stay as
well."

-- Another poster was quick to add, "Don't forget the jews, dotheads, and
latrines that have infested N.O. like the termites invasion they have been
having."

Other comments included the following:

-- "Let us pray and pray hard that nature's ethnic cleansing takes place."

-- "Mother Nature is a #### and I don't have a problem with that at all.
Especially when it leads to the possible culling of species detrimental to
my race and country."

-- "For real excitement, imagine New Awleenz after that Category 5
n----r-killer hitz, oh baby, the stench!"

-- "They should pile up all the n-----s and use them as human sand bags
against the rising storm surge."

-- "Too bad there wasn't an NAACP and LaRaza convention there this weekend."

-- "That's why Hurricane Katrina needs to wipe out the French Quarter and
every #### in it, along with the rest of that n----r-infested city."

-- "Nature is washing the city out and if every n----r, ####, fruitloop and
Third World POS drowned today, the country would be better off."

When mass deaths did not occur, white supremacists expressed disappointment.
"8,000 n----s piled into a football stadium and God has his one chance to
throw a hurricane at them and misses," complained one member of the neo-Nazi
group White Revolution.

Anti-Semitism Blaming the Jews

Inevitably, issues of anti-Semitism entered into white supremacist
discussions of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Some white supremacists
went so far as to blame the hurricane's destruction on Israel: "If Bush
hadn't stolen the levee building money to give tax breaks to the rich, and
to fight Israel's wars for them, this may well enough not have happened."

Many white supremacists claimed that Jews were controlling the media's
reporting on the hurricane. "It's sickening," wrote one Maryland poster to
the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront, "to hear the Jew media put their spin on
stories like this, using their 'Goyim' newscaster."

Others asserted Jews would soon profit from the destruction:

-- "Anyone want to bet that the next thing you will see are jew lawyers
suing businesses, governments, etc., blaming them for not properly
protecting some from harm from the hurricane?"

-- "Let me guess, an obese n----r woman will eat some week old meat with
E-coli that she looted from a grocery store. She will get sick and then find
a Jew attorney to sue the store."

-- "F----n' kike speculators are already makin' a bundle on this!"

Some white supremacists used the hurricane to make comparisons between
African-Americans and Jews:

--"This New Orleans Hurricane Katrina is a classic example of true
opportunistic n----r behavior (maybe that's why jews like n----s to much,
they are both opportunistic parasites, the n----s are just ignorant version
of jews)."

-- "Whites are gentlemen humans with honor and virtue. N-----s are savage,
predatory animals. That said, Jews are a highly advanced form of n----."

Ridiculing the Victims

After the hurricane hit, white supremacists were quick to express concern
for fellow racists who might have been caught in the storm's fury. One
racist wished another well: "Good luck and bless you, your family, and even
your dogs." A poster to the neo-Nazi Vanguard News Net VNN) forum wrote that
"my heart goes out to those good salt-of-the-earth southern White folk who
will be hurt by this disaster."

They were also quick to express a desire to come to the aid of fellow white
supremacists, such as former Klansman David Duke, whose house in Mandevelle
was damaged by the hurricane and whose family home was flooded (Duke himself
was in Eastern Europe when the hurricane hit).

Some racists wanted to offer assistance to hurricane victims, but were
afraid that their money might actually aid non-whites:

-- "Wouldn't any donation only go to the blacks and hispanics? I personally
would like a guarantee that my donation would go to WHITES ONLY."

-- A Portland, Oregon, white supremacist agreed, posting to the Resistance
Records message board that they should not "feel sympathy for the black scum
that is stealing from New Orleans and send them aid; rather we should feel
sorry for our own race and culture."

However, there was no sympathy in their hearts for non-white victims of the
hurricane. "I am so sick of hearing white people say that they feel sorry
for these n--s," posted one Florida white supremacist to Stormfront. "That's
what I have been hearing since this hurricane hit."

Others agreed. "What's amazing to me," wrote one Stormfront regular, "is
that their (biological) urge to commit crime was so strong that they were
stupid enough to risk their own lives by staying around in New Orleans."
Many white supremacists claimed that looting in New Orleans was proof that
African-Americans were savage and subhuman.

Instead of wishing to help the victims, some white supremacists wanted to
kill them. "Oh, to be in NO with a powerboat and a high powered rifle,"
wrote one VNN poster, "Good thing I'm not on rescue there. I'd wave at the
n----s and keep on going. It isn't like they'll swim and catch you.
According to news I am hearing, water is still rising there due to large
breach in levee. Hopefully, there will be thousands of bloated jigs floating
when this is all over."

White people, wrote one white supremacist on VNN, "are running around trying
to save everything, including stupid, useless n-----s...We need ethnic
cleansing on a massive scale in this country. F--k sending them back to
Africa, we should just sweep them into the sea. Sharks gotta eat too."