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Oct 25, 2007 00:55

Ethnic Studies faculty and grad students are filling up my mailbox, angry about coverage of the fire, taking apart the "natural" in natural disaster, there are so many congratulatory comparisons to Hurricane Katrina, zero coverage of reservations burning (and the lack of help they are getting opposed to middle and upper class white neighborhoods ( Read more... )

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spacecasemama October 25 2007, 08:10:06 UTC

I'm too tired to be coherent... but yeah! I have been noticing all the "Oh we're sooo much better at this, this is no Katrina" attitudes. And I just can't really buy it, it's not the same in so many ways. Not the least of which are the people affected.

loolica October 25 2007, 13:04:01 UTC

I also had immediate resentment about the idea that Katrina was the first time there had ever had to be an evacuation or the first time disaster had ever struck. Like about a year after 9/11 and something huge happened in Israel (I don't even remember what) and someone actually had the gall to say, "this is Israel's 9/11."

gwenzilla October 25 2007, 20:47:53 UTC

this and the other one....i am so disgustingly sickened and not the least bit surprised at all the levels of fucked-upedness.

beanqueen October 26 2007, 01:22:27 UTC

i was just reading a report about how after all the investigations and clean up, there was little reporting done on the TRUTH of what happened in the superdome. 4 people died, not 22 or 73. 4. one of diabetic shock, two of heart attacks and i forget the other one. but no dead raped corpses of kids piled up in freezers. it was all mythology. which i can believe. motive!

yeah, clowns sure do make a difference. bah.

loolica October 26 2007, 14:06:56 UTC

Do you remember when it was all going down and there were all those media stories about how a hospital had been looted and patients or nurses raped and I don't know what all else? And then it turned out that nothing like that had happened at all? The hospital was fine and people were being taken care of. There was such a sickening undertone of look at this descent into savage chaos after the civilizing effect of white people is removed ( ... )