Not for the Faint of Heart
Are you man--or woman--enough to read this post by my fellow blogger Karamale?I found it almost as painful to read as I found it necessary.
The man can write.
And what he says rings true.
Unless you want to pull out all the usual words we'd prefer to pull out.
You know.
Strident. Negative. Un-American.
Uppity.
posted by lisa schamess @ 11:01
2 Comments:
I have to disagree. Though there has been a lot of talk about racism in this rescue project, I think what it really demonstrates is the hot air that bloats our government today with the emphasis (and success) of style over substance and rhetoric over performance.
The unpreparedness of our supposed guardians like FEMA and Homeland Security demonstrates this.
The emperor is close to naked. Maybe this will help people see.
Maureen Dowd, the NYTimes columnist (whom I ordinarily do not like at all) talked about the "chilling lack of empathy" combined with the terrible "lack of efficiency" that made the Katrina response so awful. The inefficiency and unpreparedness is probably due to a convergence of many factors, not the least of which is that the funding for FEMA has been steadily cut over the past few years to beef up our Homeland Security anti-terrorist activities (like figuring out how to monitor what you take out of the library, in case they think you might be a terrorist sympathizer). But the lack of empathy of Bush AND his mother (read Rebecca's blog, www.schamess.com, if you don't know what Barbara Bush said), is racist and classist. The photo-ops of Bush with one or two carefully selected "refugees" look like what they are -- staged p.r. ploys. And I do think that if the displaced persons were largely white and middle class, FEMA would somehow manage to be doing its job better.
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