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09/06/2005: "Political analysis"
"Yet much of the black community in New Orleans was in the grip of self-pity. Hispanics, Vietnamese, Africans: other poor immigrants worked hard, stayed together as families, brought up decent kids - and prospered. Nothing prevented the blacks of New Orleans from doing the same. Yet far too many chose not to. The city had an appalling drug-crime rate, an atrocious murder rate and above all, the worst hopelessness rate of any major city in a developed country. I suspect that at least 90 per cent of the looters were from one-parent families."
Who could have written such an odious piece of racist 'blame the victims' trash? Who could have signed his name to such an absurd statement as that final sentence? Some sensationalist US shock-jock radio presenter, perhaps? A fire-breathing 'wrath of Gaaawd' exponent like Robertson or Falwell? Maybe one of the Daily Mail's more far-out columnists?
Nope. Bruce Anderson in today's Independent - theoretically one of our least right-wing newspapers. (Sorry, no link; the full download costs, and that's a quid I'd never see again.)
