Sometimes it sucks to be right
It's hard at times to convince people why you feel the way you do about certain things. They just seem to think you are crazy or some kind of extremist or something. Take my opinion on this nation being a cultureless void, an empty expanse of prozac addled people who judge their self worth on how much they aquire. People with no feelings, passionless about anything unless told to be by an electronic box (or jumping box as monty burns likes to call it).
How did I form this position?? By working with and living amongst people who cared not about the quality of food they were intaking or quality of time spent with their family or quality of society they were living in. They cared not that the most powerful person in their country clearly lied to them and stuck them in a war that won't end anytime soon. A country where people don't seem to mind their waterways and skies being poisoned and how it is getting easier to do so.
Now we have something as tragic and as devastating as Katrina (or Corrina according to Ms Bush). Most people after witnessing the destruction in MS and the structual damage in NO for the 1st day thought about the answers to esoteric questions like: Why did God let this happen? How could he let it happen? When the levee system, as expected to, gave way and flooded the city all those silly questions about God where thrown to the wayside. When people started to hear about the conditions in the Superdome and convention center they started to think "If it's that bad in there, how could it be like in a flooded home?" I saw scenes that I thought I would never see: thousands of black people with hardly any water no food no a/c penned in a convention center. A convention center where no provisions were kept. Think about it, no one thought of keeping any food or at least water there. They knew these people where going to be there, yet no one thought of this. No one thought that it would be a good idea to get buses together and get everyone who wanted to leave out of the city (not dropped off at the Slaveship dome) and to have shelters ready for them somewhere in the north of the state (is it that the majority white regions of the states affected might of objected to the possibility of a majority black influx of displaced citizens in their towns and parishes??, Perhaps there is some record of some congressperson gutting the funding for these kinds of emergency provisions for this reason, read what Mrs Bush 1 thinks).
A disaster whose aftermath was pondered upon in different goverment circles for years was not planned for. Whole sections of an American city destroyed. People who needed to know knew this might happen, yet nothing or very little was done. Spineless commentators on spineless networks discovered their backbones and started to question the govt line that everything was going alright, that fema was doing a good job, that now is not the time for the blame game it is time for saving people. People know when someone is trying to cover their ass. People knew that the time to save people passed days ago and nothing was done.
Yet as the richest country in the world left their citizens to rot for 4 days in poisoned waters, regular people would not let it happen. There have been reports of students and doctors and all sorts of people driving down to the area and distributing food and water when the govt said it couldn't do it (and firefighters drinking beer in Atlanta waiting on orders from FEMA, some of these firefighters where then called in to take part in photo ops with Bush). Why couldn't they do it? Because of "THEM". Them who? The "looters". "You know that they killed and raped babies in the Superdome?". "They went into a police station and killed all the police officers?". These were the comments I heard when I brought this up with people I was talking to during the first few days. My thoughts were with the people trying to survive on their on with no help. They apparently felt better demonizing these people. It must make you feel better to think your govt abandoned criminals then to think that your govt did nothing for poor people whose only crime was not having the money to afford a motel room for god knows how long.
It did surprise me to see how bad the govt (local state and federal) reaction was. Since I don't know much about the local or state levels of govt in that part of the county then I will have to offer my thoughts on the federal reaction. All I can really say about it is that it sucks to be right, Bush is either an unthinking brute of a criminal, or at least a boob. To be on vacation right before one the worst things that could happen to your country is about to happen?? Would Bush be on vacation if the govt knew somehow that NYC was about to wiped off the map by a nuke?? Would Bush been on vacation for 2 days after a major earthquake in the bay area? Of course not, so why was he away when he knew 4 days ahead of time that NO might be destroyed?
Another question is whether NO will be rebuilt. I am sure all the pretty tourist areas will be even better, but can you see the lower 9th ward being rebuilt? Sure there are gonna be alot of people not wanting to go back but more people that want to reclaim their homes and or apartments and jobs. I doubt that these homes will ever be rebuilt. I see the Army corps of eng. fixing these levees up to the standards that they should of been up to years ago and the state and federal govt givng all kinds of tax breaks to companies to bulid high end apts and condos. Yes you heard it here first, brace yourselves NO for the coming of the trust fund kid with bad fashion sense. Yes the hated Hipster coming to a devasted city near you.
I can just see these flooded neighborhoods being inhabited by snotty ass white college kids once it has been ethnically cleansed. You think I am crazy huh? It happened here in NYC didn't it? It wasn't a storm but a deluge of drugs and crime that destroyed neighborhoods which are now taken over by said hipsters.
Gotta love this country!!
Water No Get Enemy 9:51 Fela Kuti
Burnin' And Lootin' 4:13 Bob Marley
Tenement Yard 3:44 Gregory Isaacs
Liberation Dub 5:00 Groove Corporation
The Willing 4:12 Ty Feat, Tony Allen
Zealots 4:20 The Fugees The Score
Sou Negrão 6:28 Possemente Zulu
Innocent Blood 5:43 Culture
Armagideon Time 5:08 Willie Williams
Is It Because I Am Black 3:14 Seniour Soul
Blackman Time 3:03 Lee "Scratch" Perry
Waking The Spirits (African Travels Re-awakening Mix) 5:55
La Rebelion 5:21 Raulin
Message From A Black Man 3:24 The Heptones
Enjoy the new playlist!!
Ciao
How did I form this position?? By working with and living amongst people who cared not about the quality of food they were intaking or quality of time spent with their family or quality of society they were living in. They cared not that the most powerful person in their country clearly lied to them and stuck them in a war that won't end anytime soon. A country where people don't seem to mind their waterways and skies being poisoned and how it is getting easier to do so.
Now we have something as tragic and as devastating as Katrina (or Corrina according to Ms Bush). Most people after witnessing the destruction in MS and the structual damage in NO for the 1st day thought about the answers to esoteric questions like: Why did God let this happen? How could he let it happen? When the levee system, as expected to, gave way and flooded the city all those silly questions about God where thrown to the wayside. When people started to hear about the conditions in the Superdome and convention center they started to think "If it's that bad in there, how could it be like in a flooded home?" I saw scenes that I thought I would never see: thousands of black people with hardly any water no food no a/c penned in a convention center. A convention center where no provisions were kept. Think about it, no one thought of keeping any food or at least water there. They knew these people where going to be there, yet no one thought of this. No one thought that it would be a good idea to get buses together and get everyone who wanted to leave out of the city (not dropped off at the Slaveship dome) and to have shelters ready for them somewhere in the north of the state (is it that the majority white regions of the states affected might of objected to the possibility of a majority black influx of displaced citizens in their towns and parishes??, Perhaps there is some record of some congressperson gutting the funding for these kinds of emergency provisions for this reason, read what Mrs Bush 1 thinks).
A disaster whose aftermath was pondered upon in different goverment circles for years was not planned for. Whole sections of an American city destroyed. People who needed to know knew this might happen, yet nothing or very little was done. Spineless commentators on spineless networks discovered their backbones and started to question the govt line that everything was going alright, that fema was doing a good job, that now is not the time for the blame game it is time for saving people. People know when someone is trying to cover their ass. People knew that the time to save people passed days ago and nothing was done.
Yet as the richest country in the world left their citizens to rot for 4 days in poisoned waters, regular people would not let it happen. There have been reports of students and doctors and all sorts of people driving down to the area and distributing food and water when the govt said it couldn't do it (and firefighters drinking beer in Atlanta waiting on orders from FEMA, some of these firefighters where then called in to take part in photo ops with Bush). Why couldn't they do it? Because of "THEM". Them who? The "looters". "You know that they killed and raped babies in the Superdome?". "They went into a police station and killed all the police officers?". These were the comments I heard when I brought this up with people I was talking to during the first few days. My thoughts were with the people trying to survive on their on with no help. They apparently felt better demonizing these people. It must make you feel better to think your govt abandoned criminals then to think that your govt did nothing for poor people whose only crime was not having the money to afford a motel room for god knows how long.
It did surprise me to see how bad the govt (local state and federal) reaction was. Since I don't know much about the local or state levels of govt in that part of the county then I will have to offer my thoughts on the federal reaction. All I can really say about it is that it sucks to be right, Bush is either an unthinking brute of a criminal, or at least a boob. To be on vacation right before one the worst things that could happen to your country is about to happen?? Would Bush be on vacation if the govt knew somehow that NYC was about to wiped off the map by a nuke?? Would Bush been on vacation for 2 days after a major earthquake in the bay area? Of course not, so why was he away when he knew 4 days ahead of time that NO might be destroyed?
Another question is whether NO will be rebuilt. I am sure all the pretty tourist areas will be even better, but can you see the lower 9th ward being rebuilt? Sure there are gonna be alot of people not wanting to go back but more people that want to reclaim their homes and or apartments and jobs. I doubt that these homes will ever be rebuilt. I see the Army corps of eng. fixing these levees up to the standards that they should of been up to years ago and the state and federal govt givng all kinds of tax breaks to companies to bulid high end apts and condos. Yes you heard it here first, brace yourselves NO for the coming of the trust fund kid with bad fashion sense. Yes the hated Hipster coming to a devasted city near you.
I can just see these flooded neighborhoods being inhabited by snotty ass white college kids once it has been ethnically cleansed. You think I am crazy huh? It happened here in NYC didn't it? It wasn't a storm but a deluge of drugs and crime that destroyed neighborhoods which are now taken over by said hipsters.
Gotta love this country!!
Water No Get Enemy 9:51 Fela Kuti
Burnin' And Lootin' 4:13 Bob Marley
Tenement Yard 3:44 Gregory Isaacs
Liberation Dub 5:00 Groove Corporation
The Willing 4:12 Ty Feat, Tony Allen
Zealots 4:20 The Fugees The Score
Sou Negrão 6:28 Possemente Zulu
Innocent Blood 5:43 Culture
Armagideon Time 5:08 Willie Williams
Is It Because I Am Black 3:14 Seniour Soul
Blackman Time 3:03 Lee "Scratch" Perry
Waking The Spirits (African Travels Re-awakening Mix) 5:55
La Rebelion 5:21 Raulin
Message From A Black Man 3:24 The Heptones
Enjoy the new playlist!!
Ciao
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