Hard to think of anything except Katrina
It’s pretty impossible at this point to think, or blog, about anything other than the devastation in New Orleans. The horror of the situation is so big, words just fail me and now I hear that Fats Domino is missing and Bush may have cut funding for levee improvement projects in Louisiana to fund the Iraq war.
I have no more words.
(via Slog and What Do I Know)
September 1st, 2005
September 1st, 2005 at 1:41 pm
I’m at home watching CNN coverage, which at the moment is Wolf Blitzer. And a commentator on the program said something that was so cathartic for me to hear coming from a media source: that the ‘elephant in the living room’ that most coverage in the wake of Katrina has ignored is that the victims and refugees who are starving and abandoned in the cities are largely poor and black. These are people who did not have the means to leave their homes. And now they are being ignored by the government. And I wonder what role class and race play in the federal view of their expendability. Jake Shafer wrote the following article on Slate http://slate.msn.com/id/2124688/nav/tap2/
That speaks to this issue. I cannot believe Americans are suffering in ways that seem so preventable. I just need to understand why. And I can’t help but think if a devastating earthquake hits Seattle, I’ll be left to die in the street by my government.