I just listened to President Bush speaking live from the New Orleans airport. It was pathetic, it made me weep.
“I’m about to fly out, but I want you to know that I won’t forget what I’ve seen.”
Yes, and neither will any of the people who have seen the rapes, murders, deaths, corpses and crying, screaming, starving babies. What has happened in Louisiana this week is beyond an outrage, it is racism in action, and it was completely preventable.
A damning article from National Geographic on the state of New Orleans’ hurricane preparedness: Gone with the water.
The war in Iraq is terrible. But this is fucking criminal. New Orleans looks like Haiti. This is in our country, these are our people. We are the richest, most armed, ballsiest country on the planet and this is our response to the horror and suffering in our own country? Sick. Pathetic. This administration was doing its best to ruin us overseas, now they’re doing a fine job of it on our own soil as well.