A history teacher was asking me at lunch about some forwarded emails he'd been receiving about boorish, nasty, or downright criminal behavior among Katrina refugees. His bullshit detector was ringing pretty loudly. I told him to visit the good folks at Snopes, who've made a habit of debunking the nonsense that passes for news.
To my unsurprise, turns out the rumors are false or, at best, unconfirmed.
No, Houston evacuees weren't a bunch of selfish pigs.
No, evacuees didn't trash a Texas rest stop.
No, evacuees didn't bring gang violence to Utah.
To the racists who write it, and the racists who pass it along: stop.
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