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In reply to the discussion: DUers post the thing about post Katrina that shocked you the most [View all]malaise
(275,413 posts)48. You were right from 2000
I never thought I would ever see that display of indifference and neglect anywhere in America.
Most of us who live in other countries were in a state of stunned incredulity.
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I remember calling Republican congressmembers' staffs and pleading with them to
Arugula Latte
Aug 2015
#210
I can see you expected much of that treatment, but slaughtering those people even surprised you.
randys1
Aug 2015
#152
Yeb! seems to be recycling an awful lot of his brother's associates and ideas....
Hekate
Aug 2015
#73
Wait, BROWNIE made an appearance with Jeb, RECENTLY, proclaiming his proficiency with Katrina?
randys1
Aug 2015
#153
i was disappointed rachel did not mention the murders on the bridge
questionseverything
Aug 2015
#181
Racists in Gretna sending police to turn desperate people trying to find help back across bridge.
Hoyt
Aug 2015
#6
my outrage, too. you expressed it better than I could...I'd just be ranting in a rage...
CTyankee
Aug 2015
#136
I remember it that way too. I could enumerate, but it would go on and on and on....nt
Hekate
Aug 2015
#74
that still 10 years later some of the worst hit black neighborhoods ARE STILL NOT BACK......
a kennedy
Aug 2015
#18
I like to think that those who left those neighborhoods found better lives elsewhere.
Ace Rothstein
Aug 2015
#58
The conditions in the Superdome. Separating children from their parents when being evacuated
Dont call me Shirley
Aug 2015
#19
The fact that the Bush White House wanted to use it as a teachable momment of "those people
applegrove
Aug 2015
#24
My father at the time was an over the road truck driver and his company along with others
hrmjustin
Aug 2015
#28
While the levees broke in New Orleans and the Mississippi coast was devastated. . .
DinahMoeHum
Aug 2015
#30
I grew up in the South in the shadow of WW2. Nothing shocks me. All I felt was grief and outrage.
freshwest
Aug 2015
#139
It was intentional. No surprise the bushes commit crimes against humanity, that's who they are.
Dont call me Shirley
Aug 2015
#135
When I was in Mississippi, people were saying that they had friends who were missing
Lydia Leftcoast
Aug 2015
#206
One of the saddest experiences occurred when I was working in the medical tent
Lydia Leftcoast
Aug 2015
#214
30,000 people, bush said on his way out of office, that they pulled 30,000 people out. What he
Dont call me Shirley
Aug 2015
#138
A couple of things, people was put on an overpass, the temperature was 103, in the hot sun, no water
Thinkingabout
Aug 2015
#38
YES - I don't think it's petty at all - especially that little boy who had to leave his dog
LiberalElite
Aug 2015
#65
I was going to post the same. I would not have left my Yorkies behind.
SammyWinstonJack
Aug 2015
#166
The juxtaposition of what was said and what was shown on the news, convention center
uppityperson
Aug 2015
#43
And then when they were evacuated, hey! how about those at the convention center?
uppityperson
Aug 2015
#49
I live in WA and called Bill Gates as the richest person I knew and begged him to get involved
uppityperson
Aug 2015
#204
Everything shocked me at the time. But none of it shocks me now. I listened to the DR show
kelliekat44
Aug 2015
#47
And they only victim shame the poor black people that couldn't afford to leave
maryellen99
Aug 2015
#75
The fact that it went from a major American city to Mogadishu almost literally overnight
XemaSab
Aug 2015
#78
Which isn't to deny the human tragedy, but point out "There but for the grace of God..."
XemaSab
Aug 2015
#101
There were many bad things, the shootings, corpses floating in the water, but one good thing which
Uncle Joe
Aug 2015
#85
In Tx, people were stuck in traffic on highways, out of gas and Tx did nothing to help.
Sunlei
Aug 2015
#112
how third world we appeared. the utter inability to reach people to save them, for so long. nt
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#122
The sweetheart contracts to 1)Innovative Emergency Management and 2)Service Corp Int'l.
Mc Mike
Aug 2015
#123
Agreed, that's why I say it was planned genocide. Soon after, devastated areas along the coast were
freshwest
Aug 2015
#134
Case in point: The Cilnton administration's response to the Grand Forks ND floods
Lydia Leftcoast
Aug 2015
#203
Thanks for expanding my knowledge. Sounds like 'fusion politics' or 'the 3rd Reconstruction':
freshwest
Aug 2015
#208
Boggles the mind how a professionally run organization could be gutted in one Administration
Hekate
Aug 2015
#165
And, don't forget how the media portrayed people taking things from stores in the aftermath.
GoCubsGo
Aug 2015
#169
It wasn't an inability to handle the crisis - it was a (careless?) decision not
hedgehog
Aug 2015
#150
How much people who claim to care about NO do *not* care about every other big city in the US.
Romulox
Aug 2015
#132
Watching Americans beg for rescue/food/water in a major city in front of our eyes on national TV
ariesgem
Aug 2015
#140
Same reason he didn't see 9-11 coming. He's a cold-blooded sociopath who cares not...
Hekate
Aug 2015
#167
The genuine heartfelt empathy of the folks at the shelter in San Antonio.
frustrated_lefty
Aug 2015
#158
If the following timeline doesn't make you angry, you have a heart of stone
Lydia Leftcoast
Aug 2015
#178