BBC link below. One National Guardsman stayed back when the rest were ordered to leave and got the white travelers out of there as the Superdome devolved into "Lord of the Flies" because like the travelers, he figured they would be among the biggest targets given the threats already made at them.
Here's a hypothetical for you: let's say the Red River floods the Fargo/Moorhead area ( a real possibility), which I think has a combined population of about 200,000. 40,000 are crammed into the Fargodome. There is a smattering of blacks. What do you think the chances are that those blacks would be under threat of racial attacks among an overwhelmingly white population in the dome? And if there were racially motivated threats/attacks against blacks, to the point that the Guard had to evacuate blacks, do you think you would read about it later?
Here are some of the Superdome accounts:
1. Up to 30 British students huddled among the thousands in the Superdome were forced to set up a makeshift security cordon to fend off abusive locals.
Jamie Trout, 22, an economics student from Sunderland, kept a record of his terrifying ordeal. He wrote: "It was like something out of Lord of the Flies - one minute everything is calm and civil, the next it descends into chaos. A man has been arrested for raping a seven-year-old in the toilet, this place is hell. The smell is horrendous, there are toilets overflowing and people everywhere."
Jamie, who had been coaching football to disabled children as part of the Camp America scheme, said people were shouting racial abuse at the Britons because they were white.
2. An Australian newspaper reports on black crime against Australians in the Superdome motivated by racial differences.
Brisbane's John McNeil, 22, told his family he'd witnessed murders, rapes and stabbings, and feared he would be killed.
Mr McNeil's father, Peter, said his son was with about 60 other foreign tourists who had fled the Superdome.
"They couldn't stay another night, the situation was so bad," he said.
"People were just staring at them and making suggestions that they were going to kill them."
John's sister Susie said he saw shocking acts of violence amid fierce racial tension in the Superdome.
"It's turned into a black against white thing," she said. "My brother has witnessed murders, stabbings, rapes . . . it's like a Third World country."
3. "The young woman explained how the US military had to sneak her out of the stadium in secret at the end of her terrifying ordeal.
She said: 'The military got us out of the Superdome. They told us it was too unsafe to stay.
'They got us out in groups of 10, in secret really.
'When we were leaving, people were going 'Where are you going?' and giving us looks.
'But the military got us out, which we were all thankful for."
4. As the Australians left the Superdome, food and water were almost non-existent and the stiflingly hot arena was filled with 25,000 people and the stench of human waste. Gangs stalked the tourists and women were threatened with rape.
"Bud took control. He was calm and kept it together the whole time," Ms Cullington said.
Mr Hopes, 32, said: "That was the worst place in the universe. Ninety-eight per cent of the people around the world are good. In that place, 98 per cent of the people were bad.
"Everyone brought their drugs, they brought guns, they brought knives. Soldiers were shot."
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/4208792.stm