Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

by Sheri Fink

He later recalled wondering at the time: “What would they do, these crazy black people who think they’ve been oppressed for all these years by white people…God knows what these crazy people outside are going to do to these poor patients who are dying. They can dismember them, they can rape them, they can torture them.”

The racism of this quote was not even commented upon