August 28, 2005
Ned Sublette on Race, Class, and the Hurricane
In the blog for Laura Flanders' radio show, genius musicologist Ned Sublette is very worried about Hurricane Katrina and how it's being handled in New Orleans:
Ned Sublette's message from New Orleans
camp casey is an important story, but not when new orleans -- among other things, still one of america's most important port cities -- is about to be very possibly destroyed. i think it's so far beyond people's imagination what's about to happen that we can't process it. the storm is well above the category 5 threshold.
and here's the scandal:
the poorest one-fifth or so of the city is still there in harm's way!
guess what color the poorest one-fifth of new orleans is. it's as if you had advance notice that mohammed atta's crew was coming to the world trade center and evacuated all but the poor from it...
Our thoughts are with all of you down there..
Posted by jsmooth995 at August 28, 2005 9:42 PM
that was actually my first thought when I heard mandatory evacuation: what about the lower-class, the homeless, the section-8, the squatters, and ? Not everyone can just jump in their car, fill up at $3/gal and go. Or buy a train ticket. the rest are waiting to be received at the stadiums for shelter and hospitals... And what are we doing about it?
Posted by: k at August 29, 2005 3:44 PM
I agree! Where was AMTRAK? Why didn't they run free train service out for the poor? They had days of warning! Many poor folks don't have cars or gas money to go far.
I also wonder if the superdome had been a refuge of the enfranchised (whites) --- if they'd manage to run the air conditioning on back up power. And manage to have more than 10 trucks of food for a stadium full of people for a week.
Lots of headlines at www.legitgov.org.
Posted by: Mary at August 29, 2005 5:28 PM
So, how many of you sent money to evacuate them? Did you drive down to free the poor? DID YOU SEND BACK YOUR TAX REFUNDS?
PS - You forgot to blame bush, haliburton and israel for the hurricane!
Posted by: yky at August 29, 2005 9:33 PM
That's funny, you wouldn't think a straw man could survive a hurricane, but this guy still has a bunch of them.
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