f*ck you, you f*cking f*cks - raw anger from New Orleans

Support Tim in NOLA (0.00 / 0)

By supporting Karen Carter in her fight to restore honor to the House of Representatives.

---

by: BranfordBoy @ Sat Nov 18, 2006 at 17:13:31 PM UTC

That would be the operative action (0.00 / 0)

It's not enough to know, to be sure.

---

by: greenpeas @ Sat Nov 18, 2006 at 18:57:33 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

I hate to point this out.. (0.00 / 0)

but she seems mostly upset about a stupid football team and out of towners.

and NYC had down time in a center of commerce, the financial backbone of not only the country but the entire world during 9/11. The financial district is more than 'a neighborhood'.

I understand the blogger's upset and rightfully so.. but it's misguided anger in this post. And the comparison to Biafra in one of the posts? Biafra was post-independence Africa's first and most bloody wars, some sources cite that 1m people died as a result of the conflict. People were STARVING TO DEATH.  As horrific as NO is, I would NEVER compare it to Biafra. There IS no comparison there. 

.Adding Another Dimension of Vituperation Toxicity to Blogging since 1999!.

---

by: nolopro @ Sun Nov 19, 2006 at 14:32:59 PM UTC

I am not looking at it as a well reasoned argument (0.00 / 0)

and should have clarified why I posted it.  (The Saints are so, so important to New Orleans - maybe Tim will touch on what that's about.  I think it stands in for something else, so won't view it as trivial - will take that under advisement.

But here's what struck me --

If you read the comments, what is striking is that when people read it, they describe themselves as having trouble breathing.

She has tapped into something that whether perfectly articulated or not, resonated with people's experience.

When is the last time I have read that someone read a diary and coudln't breathe properly afterwards?

In a word, never.

---

by: greenpeas @ Sun Nov 19, 2006 at 18:08:33 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

I take that back. The reasoning's fine (0.00 / 0)

and the breathing thing says something, too.

A very strongly identified community now has people who think they know best bringing in money that will take away the land where their houses once stood.  People who have money are getting the lots where insurance companies failed to pay the previous owners enough to rebuild based on technicalities.

There is lots of outside opinion that weighs in, essentially, that a city where people lived all their lives should cease to exist.  This is  about abandonment, about moneyed interests over people.  I don't think it's so terribly hard to figure out.

I hadn't reread it when I posted the above.  Now I have.

---

by: greenpeas @ Sun Nov 19, 2006 at 18:20:36 PM UTC

[ Parent ]