22 January 2007

Saints get whitewashed

Most of the British papers had a story at the weekend about the resurgent New Orleans Saints and their quest for a shot at the Super Bowl, now sadly ended. Each of these was accompanied by a shot of fans cheering in the renovated Super Dome during a match. It took me a while to figure out what was disturbing me about all of these pictures.

Virtually every fan shown was white. Was it just my imagination or didn't New Orleans used to have a population that was more than two thirds black?

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