are you kidding me?!
How NOT to handle an emergency, by your Clandestine friend
1. Tell people to evacuate, but provide no transportation so that poor, elderly and disabled people (not to mention people who simply don't have cars) have no choice by to stay in the soon-to-be disaster zone.
2. Tell said remaining people that they will be safe if they go to an arena that can provide no food, flushable toilets, water or safety.
3. When the scale of this disaster becomes evident, evacuate all remaining, living people to above-mentioned unsafe arena (particularly when the arena's roof has begun to fall apart).
4. Notice that all of the now refugees are black, and so classify them all as looters and criminals and leave them there to die.
5. Continue to SAY that you are doing all you can while 20,000 people are rotting away and thus becoming lawless.
6. Deploy National Guards-people to deter looters when there are STILL over 20,000 people stuck without food or water for the 4th day.
7. Stop evacuating people when pilots (from the National Guard, by the way) are being shot at - because they've not been trained to fly when being shot at?! (Besides, since the person shooting is black and all the other people there are black, obviously they're all going to be shooting at you. It's simple arithmetic.)
8. Tell me that you'd have reacted in the same way if said disaster had left 80,000 white people stranded.
By the way, in my humble opinion, if you're not outraged at and embarrassed by the way we are (not)reacting to this, you definitely need to watch the news more. People are just dying because they have no water. The people in the hospitals are going to die because they have no electricity and no water. I know that some people are legitimately stealing things from stores that they don't need, but what do you expect when you leave 80,000 people to fend for themselves????????
It is not 1900. This is not happening in a third-world country without resources. This is happening here, in a major city, in 2005. And the people can't be rescued?
Give me a break.
posted by Clandestine @ 8:38 AM
6 Comments:
here here !
thank you for saying what
I also would have said !
I too am embarrassed for the world to see how inept we have been in helping
these people.
They knew a week ago that the loss would be horrific.
a week !
it is all unacceptable.
excellent post...thank you for finding the words that i haven't been able to find...all i can do is swear...this is all just so wrong...on so many levels...
I'm just grateful that corporations and private charities are doing things our government can't, and won't. But there have been governmental fuck-ups from the lowest to the highest levels, and they all converged in a horrible way in New Orleans.
thanks for your words, both here and on other blogs/comments! i admire your ability to get your points across in an honest, non-defensive way, even when the topic is so incredibly emotion-packed.
excellent post!
You have a way with words
Sad but true...and no one was kidding....
It all continues apace.
Imagine now..how the pie will be sliced in the South. Think about who's gonna get rich. Who's gonna get nice housing.
Yikes...
sTB
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