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Thread #84253 Message #1556621
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
05-Sep-05 - 12:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: Genocide in New Orleans
Subject: RE: BS: Genocide in New Orleans
I don't, Peter, but you appear to be trying to defend the position that everyone did make provision and it was all washed away.
On Saturday's Weekend Edition on NPR I heard an interview with a fellow who had evacuated on Friday and housed in a Memphis hotel. He had done everything correctly, right from watching the weather and having enough of an understanding that the flooding was going to be a problem. They need to find that guy and hire him to run the Common Sense In the Face of a Pending Disaster Department.
CarolC, I say that some people didn't leave because it was their choice and you say that they couldn't get out and are angry about it. There is room in that city for both events to have happened to a lot of people, and as we can see now, there are a lot of people who still resist leaving. It is possible to acknowledge the agency of the people who were trapped there without blaming the victims, possible to acknowledge that a lot of people made the wrong decision when told to evacuate. Wrong decisions can extend to those who ran public transit--but I haven't read anything yet about what happened to public transit, so I'm not going to second guess that part of the story.
SRS