Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Comment by Adam

September 2, 2005 @ 8:36 am

Do me a favor, Abby. I’m so fucking angry over this that I don’t have room for grief.

Can you carry my sadness? I’ll gladly pick up your fury.

Comment by Dianne

September 2, 2005 @ 12:11 pm

Adam, I feel your grief. I feel like I want to do something. I guess I’ll make a donation at a place where they match what you give (what a great idea), so my pittance will mean a little more.
All I see in my head are tent cities. Remember they had to do that one time, was it in Central Park? Probably way before your time.

Comment by Abby

September 2, 2005 @ 7:21 pm

I’m furious, too. We left these people high and dry, and then their world flooded. We let our underprivileged down. We always do. W should be ashamed of himself. And looks who’s left in NOLA… not white people with money. It’s all black people without connections outside New Orleans. Now at least the rest of the world can see how shitty we are to our poor. W’s failure are being exposed.

Comment by Adam

September 3, 2005 @ 12:29 pm

I’m wanting some people strung up over this – I’ve called my congressman and both senators and read them the riot act. This is either deliberate cruelty or it’s stupidity on a scale never before seen in this country.

Neither prospect makes me what you call happy.

Comment by Renee

September 4, 2005 @ 9:11 pm

I wish to God W would be impeached. The only salvation is that he can’t run a third term. Not that anyone would vote for him now. I’m so angry and frustrated about the whole thing. You hear so much conflicting info I don’t know what to believe. Yes, perhaps if the people who were stranded were white and affluent they would not have been stranded. But that is because if they were rich they would have had the means to get out. I hate W, but I’m not sure I buy into the whole race thing. I think it’s more an issue of poverty, and it just happens to be that those stranded are black. It could have just as easily been poor whites. What makes me really sick is that the mayor said he tried to get buses and military into the city prior to the storm in anticipation that many of the poor would not have means to get out and he was denied funding, hence the Superdome catastrophy. And yes, I totally believe that the war is the reason we are in this fix because of all the funding going there. It’s just so sad and hopeless…

Comment by Adam

September 5, 2005 @ 7:47 am

Class and race are, sadly, all tied together in this country. Part of the legacy the South has yet to deal with is the fact that its poorest residents are the descendants of the men, women and children shipped over from Africa to labor on the plantations.

All poor people are not black, and all blacks are not poor, but the African-American community suffers disproportionately from the scourge of poverty.

And every time that sickening shitlicking scumbag makes another of his photo ops, flights of aid into the area are halted. Rescue operations are held up until his press conference begins. People die. More people die.

I’m serious – a quick trial then a long dance on a short rope for the people responsible for ignoring this crisis and for letting it get so bad.