[mburbank]

I thought that was an amazingly arrogant piece.

His tribe would have made the Superdome a citadel of hope? He knows this?

In the concentration camps, there were Saints and Kapos. But mostly there were beaten, down broken people waiting to die. That's the nature of human beings under duress and I think it's lovely this guy thinks his Tribe has dibs on being swell no matter what, but I doubt it. There may well be a tribe like the one he's talking about, but it's way smaller than he thinks, and no one knows if they belong to it until they've been in the Superdome for twenty four in sweltering heat, with no fresh air, no toilets, no food, no water, no idea what was happening.

There's a word for this guy thinking he knows who his tribe is and how it would behave. It's called Hubris.

And that's after you get past the assumption that, while his tribe is not exclussively white and middle class, white middle class folks would have created te citadel of hope. It's very big of him to include darker folks and gayer folks but this story boils down to him being certain he's made of better stuff than other people and the implication that those other people deserve what they get.

Does he think that the vast majority of people in the superdome were on a parr with the fractional percentage of them that raped and murdered, that if you don't forge the citadel of hope than you belong in a 'tribe' with murderers and rapists?

This guy sucks my butt, eye tie. I have a value he ought to take a look at, one that Jesus was very big on. It's called compassion.

Who is this guy? Does he have a name? Is he always this proud of himself?