Keeping Katrina tidy

I found the House panel investigating the government’s Katrina preparations and response quite entertaining. Especially when Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla admonished Leah Hodges, a black female Katrina survivor, for calling the situation on the Causeway and I-10 the “Causeway Concentration Camp”. Rep. Miller tried to get all sassy with Ms. Hodges, inferring that she didn’t know what happened in the Holocaust, but she wasn’t having it. She cut him off and simply said:

“I’m going to call it what it is. That is the only thing I could compare what we went through to.”

OH JOY! Man, don’t you know you don’t disrespect a middle aged black woman? You lucky she didn’t fling a one of those thick, wooden flip-flops at your face.

Seriously, all this attempted “Katrina tidiness” isn’t going to fly dearies. The entire Hurricane Katrina situation stinks to the stars and you might as well accept it. The best that can be done now is to get super serious about helping those uprooted by Hurricane Katrina. The devastation isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. All that’s left is the well-being of American citizens who didn’t ask, nor deserve, to be caught in the rinse and spin cycle of Mother Nature’s washing machine.

And for those that think those people deserved what Hurricane Katrina brought upon them, may you catch the Ebola virus with a dollop of flesh-eating bacteria (for decoration).

6 Responses to “Keeping Katrina tidy”

1. Zebrality.com says:

   December 7, 2005 at 9:30 pm

   Keeping Katrina tidy

   Keeping Katrina tidy
2. mahndisa says:

   December 8, 2005 at 2:41 pm

   12 08 05

   Agreed. It really bothers me that people blamed them in some capacity. I think it is racially motivated callousness, but no one will admit it. Good post:)
3. sandy says:

   December 9, 2005 at 10:20 pm

   mahndisa, if I say those people were left stranded because of an in-effective white governor and and inept black mayor, how is that racist?

   There’s a lot of blame to go around, but I think a large part of the problem is years of government handouts and democratic social programs that causes people to look to the government for everything.

   If that’s racist then I’m guilty as charged.
4. T-Steel says:

   December 10, 2005 at 5:47 am

   Well sandy, government handouts and democratic social programs (while a problem) didn’t steer Hurricane Katrina towards the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coasts. So that explanation doesn’t fly straight. In-effective white governor and an inept black mayor works quite well. They both had a hand in crap that is now called “recovery”.
5. sandy says:

   December 11, 2005 at 12:22 am

   I never meant that democratic social programs and government handouts steered Katrina to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts. I hope it did not come across that way.

   I only state the people may have been left stranded because they might be depending on the government to rescue them. I remember seeing one man who took it upon himself to commandeer a school bus and drive him and several other people to safety. If he had waited for naggin nagin to organize the school bus’s, he would still be waist deep in water.
6. Lynn S says:

   December 11, 2005 at 8:33 am

   Blame human nature. It’s human nature to procrastinate, to deny, to not plan ahead, whether the human in question is a mayor a governor or just some guy whose house has surved other hurricanes and thought Katrina would be like all the rest.

   I saw a few minutes of the hearings on ABC news. The superior manner of the congressmen really pissed me off. I won’t deny that there’s racism involved but it would have been pretty much the same if it had been low income white people. I think it’s income-ism more than racism and that the people we elect to represent us all think they’re better than the people they’re supposed to represent.