Remembrance…
August 30th, 2007 | by Angry Black Bitch | Published in Politics | 3 Comments
Here are the thoughts of the Angry Black Bitch regarding Katrina, two years after the levee’s Failed.
Two years ago today was like any other day until it wasn’t. I’m sure I went to work, laughed with some people and bitched about something…and then came Katrina.
I am unable to recall Katrina without selfishly thinking about my home, my family, my friends, my neighborhood and my beloved dawgs. And I am unable to think about what happened in The Gulf without being disgusted by what did not.
After two years this nation is still reluctant to go to war with poverty or advocate on behalf of the working poor or invest in our ancient infrastructure. My home city of St. Louis is a river town with levees and water marks on some city buildings, so there but for the grace of God go all of us or any of us.
Not a damn thing has changed but the date.
I don’t need a special segment-based retrospective or a special edition of the evening news. I simply close my eyes and see all that water, so much water, and the terror, so much terror.
One massive visual indictment of public policy gone wrong and government gone insane, forever married to the rebuilding which stands as a testament to the will of the people who remain and return to make their home rise again.
Go on with your bad selves down there in The Gulf.
Go on and show ‘em where it’s at…
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August 30th, 2007at 11:31 am(#)
…Just in from the waste land that is bakersfield.com. I did a simple post,asking for a moment of silence fo all we lost, and then said we should be ashamed, two beautiful youtube clips…and all hell broke lose. The most bigoted, hateful small minded words I have ever seen~ well till next time I can not even attack those folks because they have some sort of mental health problem, so all I can say is God(dess) bless New Orleans. And I told the sick ones, when it is their turn I hope help and a soft word comes to them.
August 30th, 2007at 12:54 pm(#)
Eloquent ABB…well said.
Sage…so sorry…
August 30th, 2007at 2:34 pm(#)
i don’t think i will ever forget how it felt to see the people of new orleans abandoned by our government, by the most powerful nation on earth. just left behind. i have chills ~ not the good kind ~ writing that.
i had what we call a “psychic change” in AA ~ a complete rearrangement of thoughts, attitudes, actions. only this wasn’t positive. what i realized then, watching my fellow citizens abandoned by the government of george bush, was that we, the american people, count for nothing in this corporate-owned nation.
we are nothing. our lives have no value. they’re not worth saving. they’re not worth working for diplomatic solutions to world problems when we can have a war instead. wars serve the dual purpose of enriching the corporate war machine and letting us have at the spoils of war, in this case oil.
i got pissed. i was enraged. it hasn’t diminished. when i hear the talking heads blathering about how well mississippi is doing, how great haley barbour (R) is and ain’t it grand that mississippi has managed to recover so well, i want to scream. white republican mississippi, with less damage from the storm, got way more money to recover from it.
this is not my country. i don’t recognize it. we must, must, must continue to fight these thugs but it is so very tiring at times.