You know, what haunts me is how many people on separate occasions said they felt like they were treated like animals and left to die like animals. "We slept like rats in the streets" "we can't do anything but scrounge around in our filth like animals" "our dead are treated like animals" statements like this. And the tone they said these things with--the incredulity and despair. It reminded me of what a history professor drilled into us: "Every country is just 3 square meals away from a revolution." But not just revolution, humanity and civilization is that tenuous. We *are* animals but sometimes other animals treat those within their own species better than we do within our own species, and so I don't think the animal analogy is quite right. What people went through after Katrina is more like how CAGED animals live--in varying degrees of squalor and neglect and 100% helplessness. > It's of a black woman, around 30 or so, and she says > (paraphrased but pretty close), "We're having to walk > around in our own filth in there. We're not *like* > that! We don't live like that!" And she's weeping. > > She wasn't angry so much as crushed, deeply hurt > that people would think--as she clearly assumed-- > that it was *OK* to leave black people awash in > their own filth because that's the kind of people > they were anyway. > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "vashtirama" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > Nope. > > > > > Are you saying it would have gone the same way if the > > convention > > > > > center were full of white people? > > > > > > > > Yes. > > > > > > FWIW, apparently several hundred people, mostly well- > > > to-do, who had been staying in a nearby hotel were > > > brought to the Superdome just as the bus evacuation > > > was beginning to really get underway, and were put on > > > buses ahead of all the folks who had been staying at > > > the Superdome and had been standing in line for many > > > hours--days, in some cases--to be evacuated. > > > > > > It really wasn't so much white people versus black > > > people, as well-to-do people versus poor people. > > > > > > Of course, most of the poor folks are black, and most > > > of the well-to-do are white. > > > > > > If that were reversed, and the people in the shelters > > > were poor white people, it would have gone the same way. > > > > > > It would *not* have gone the same way if the shelters > > > were full of well-to-do people, no matter what color > > > they were.
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