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In reply to the discussion: DUers post the thing about post Katrina that shocked you the most [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)95. TRIGGER WARNING: DO NOT WATCH IF FROM NOLA:
Linkin Park - The Little Things Give You Away (Katrina Tribute)
From 1SBM replying to me:
"The levy system in N.O. was designed to flood one ward ... the 9th ward ... to save the rest of N.O. The 9th ward, also, was the only section of N.O. proper that Black folks could purchase on home (in the 50s, 60s and into the 70s), and later, was where the 'Projects' were built ... So yes, the deaths in the 9th ward had a racist component."
BLM mentioned in Seattle, they were being driven out of town by gentrification. The area they speak of, the Central District, IIRC was the only place in WA state blacks could legally live.
Only since 2004 Governor Gregoire signed a law to prohibit housing bias, not in 1968 when it became illegal as the law of the land, the Central has been the center of the black community.
It is now being gentrified and black people are losing their homes again. This process is a lengthy one where services are denied and an area is termed as 'blighted' and ready for renovation. By removing the residents in various ways.
My first reply ot 1SBM:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11874904#post5
Background to the death toll of Katrina. This was discussed a lot afterward:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11874904#post7
Some words to the song:
Hope decays
Generations disappear
Washed away
As a nation simply stares
Don't want to reach for me, do you?
I mean nothing to you
The little things give you away...
History shows a pattern. This was intentional and a crime against humanity. Call me crazy, but I know what I have seen and read.
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I remember calling Republican congressmembers' staffs and pleading with them to
Arugula Latte
Aug 2015
#210
I can see you expected much of that treatment, but slaughtering those people even surprised you.
randys1
Aug 2015
#152
Yeb! seems to be recycling an awful lot of his brother's associates and ideas....
Hekate
Aug 2015
#73
Wait, BROWNIE made an appearance with Jeb, RECENTLY, proclaiming his proficiency with Katrina?
randys1
Aug 2015
#153
i was disappointed rachel did not mention the murders on the bridge
questionseverything
Aug 2015
#181
Racists in Gretna sending police to turn desperate people trying to find help back across bridge.
Hoyt
Aug 2015
#6
my outrage, too. you expressed it better than I could...I'd just be ranting in a rage...
CTyankee
Aug 2015
#136
I remember it that way too. I could enumerate, but it would go on and on and on....nt
Hekate
Aug 2015
#74
that still 10 years later some of the worst hit black neighborhoods ARE STILL NOT BACK......
a kennedy
Aug 2015
#18
I like to think that those who left those neighborhoods found better lives elsewhere.
Ace Rothstein
Aug 2015
#58
The conditions in the Superdome. Separating children from their parents when being evacuated
Dont call me Shirley
Aug 2015
#19
The fact that the Bush White House wanted to use it as a teachable momment of "those people
applegrove
Aug 2015
#24
My father at the time was an over the road truck driver and his company along with others
hrmjustin
Aug 2015
#28
While the levees broke in New Orleans and the Mississippi coast was devastated. . .
DinahMoeHum
Aug 2015
#30
I grew up in the South in the shadow of WW2. Nothing shocks me. All I felt was grief and outrage.
freshwest
Aug 2015
#139
It was intentional. No surprise the bushes commit crimes against humanity, that's who they are.
Dont call me Shirley
Aug 2015
#135
When I was in Mississippi, people were saying that they had friends who were missing
Lydia Leftcoast
Aug 2015
#206
One of the saddest experiences occurred when I was working in the medical tent
Lydia Leftcoast
Aug 2015
#214
30,000 people, bush said on his way out of office, that they pulled 30,000 people out. What he
Dont call me Shirley
Aug 2015
#138
A couple of things, people was put on an overpass, the temperature was 103, in the hot sun, no water
Thinkingabout
Aug 2015
#38
YES - I don't think it's petty at all - especially that little boy who had to leave his dog
LiberalElite
Aug 2015
#65
I was going to post the same. I would not have left my Yorkies behind.
SammyWinstonJack
Aug 2015
#166
The juxtaposition of what was said and what was shown on the news, convention center
uppityperson
Aug 2015
#43
And then when they were evacuated, hey! how about those at the convention center?
uppityperson
Aug 2015
#49
I live in WA and called Bill Gates as the richest person I knew and begged him to get involved
uppityperson
Aug 2015
#204
Everything shocked me at the time. But none of it shocks me now. I listened to the DR show
kelliekat44
Aug 2015
#47
And they only victim shame the poor black people that couldn't afford to leave
maryellen99
Aug 2015
#75
The fact that it went from a major American city to Mogadishu almost literally overnight
XemaSab
Aug 2015
#78
Which isn't to deny the human tragedy, but point out "There but for the grace of God..."
XemaSab
Aug 2015
#101
There were many bad things, the shootings, corpses floating in the water, but one good thing which
Uncle Joe
Aug 2015
#85
In Tx, people were stuck in traffic on highways, out of gas and Tx did nothing to help.
Sunlei
Aug 2015
#112
how third world we appeared. the utter inability to reach people to save them, for so long. nt
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#122
The sweetheart contracts to 1)Innovative Emergency Management and 2)Service Corp Int'l.
Mc Mike
Aug 2015
#123
Agreed, that's why I say it was planned genocide. Soon after, devastated areas along the coast were
freshwest
Aug 2015
#134
Case in point: The Cilnton administration's response to the Grand Forks ND floods
Lydia Leftcoast
Aug 2015
#203
Thanks for expanding my knowledge. Sounds like 'fusion politics' or 'the 3rd Reconstruction':
freshwest
Aug 2015
#208
Boggles the mind how a professionally run organization could be gutted in one Administration
Hekate
Aug 2015
#165
And, don't forget how the media portrayed people taking things from stores in the aftermath.
GoCubsGo
Aug 2015
#169
It wasn't an inability to handle the crisis - it was a (careless?) decision not
hedgehog
Aug 2015
#150
How much people who claim to care about NO do *not* care about every other big city in the US.
Romulox
Aug 2015
#132
Watching Americans beg for rescue/food/water in a major city in front of our eyes on national TV
ariesgem
Aug 2015
#140
Same reason he didn't see 9-11 coming. He's a cold-blooded sociopath who cares not...
Hekate
Aug 2015
#167
The genuine heartfelt empathy of the folks at the shelter in San Antonio.
frustrated_lefty
Aug 2015
#158
If the following timeline doesn't make you angry, you have a heart of stone
Lydia Leftcoast
Aug 2015
#178