Monday, April 03, 2006
A Natural Enema
I have something to say about New Orleans. It cured me of the latent racism
that comes from being raised and spending most of your life in a predominantly white area. It was the first place, along with the attendant 36 hour bus ride to and from, that acquainted me with black people, where I was in contact with them, and where I wasn't part of the 90-95% population that was caucasian, and thus rightfully viewed with a bit of suspicion.
I got a reuben at the Camelia Grill, on St. Charles Street. I spent a week with
a beautiful, intelligent woman who had spent her whole life there. I saw the
banks of the Mississippi, the French Market, and the rampant poverty that made every other city block a row of hovels that people proudly called their own.
And I saw this city get destroyed, by incompetent, bungling government. The
local government fucked up. They didn't have the resources to handle something that size, because New Orleans is a very, very poor city. The federal
government, which knew of the danger, and our President, who thought
"everything would be fine", also fucked up. That I am angry for. I had to spend
a week of my life worrying about a woman I loved, while her city burned and
drowned. And see that smug, self-satisfied prick play guitar, while a
democratic stronghold of the south received a natural enema.
Thanks, Grover Norquist. Thank you, Neoconservatives, thank you nepotism, thank you cronyism and incompetent bureaucracy and inefficient government. You nearly killed an American city, one of the most richly cultural patchwork places in this great country. This is what drowning the government in a bathtub means, you silly fucks. You destroy EVERYTHING that makes this country great, while a helicopter flies you to safety and your butler tells the head chef what your personal waiter will bring you for supper. Go to hell.
Posted by MEGIDO 04/03/2006 @ 12:44am
that comes from being raised and spending most of your life in a predominantly white area. It was the first place, along with the attendant 36 hour bus ride to and from, that acquainted me with black people, where I was in contact with them, and where I wasn't part of the 90-95% population that was caucasian, and thus rightfully viewed with a bit of suspicion.
I got a reuben at the Camelia Grill, on St. Charles Street. I spent a week with
a beautiful, intelligent woman who had spent her whole life there. I saw the
banks of the Mississippi, the French Market, and the rampant poverty that made every other city block a row of hovels that people proudly called their own.
And I saw this city get destroyed, by incompetent, bungling government. The
local government fucked up. They didn't have the resources to handle something that size, because New Orleans is a very, very poor city. The federal
government, which knew of the danger, and our President, who thought
"everything would be fine", also fucked up. That I am angry for. I had to spend
a week of my life worrying about a woman I loved, while her city burned and
drowned. And see that smug, self-satisfied prick play guitar, while a
democratic stronghold of the south received a natural enema.
Thanks, Grover Norquist. Thank you, Neoconservatives, thank you nepotism, thank you cronyism and incompetent bureaucracy and inefficient government. You nearly killed an American city, one of the most richly cultural patchwork places in this great country. This is what drowning the government in a bathtub means, you silly fucks. You destroy EVERYTHING that makes this country great, while a helicopter flies you to safety and your butler tells the head chef what your personal waiter will bring you for supper. Go to hell.
Posted by MEGIDO 04/03/2006 @ 12:44am
