Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j8CDnoG03668; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:49:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:49:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <432586F1.7020709@hcc.mass.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Charlie Herbert <cherbert@hcc.mass.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1537] Re: UN Report: Parts of America Are as X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 1168 Lines: 28 Bill Fletcher, President of TransAfrica Forum, wrote the following op/ed on this very issue, comparing the Katrina Disaster to "The Titanic of Our Era" -- find it at Tom Paine here: <http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050909/the_titanic_of_our_era.php>. Fletcher addresses the race/class issue by comparing those left behind as like the "steerage" on the Titanic, those third class travellers unable and not allowed to get to the life boats. (This is even more salient in light of the recent news of police preventing evacuees from crossing the bridge from NO to Jefferson Parish over the Mississippi http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/national/nationalspecial/10emt.html "The police kept saying, 'We don't want another Superdome,' and 'This isn't New Orleans.' "). However, the question is not only about if or whether actual leaders at the time denied rescue or were criminally negligent in some way, it is also a question of the how the economic system sets up this situation in the first place. Charlie Andres Muro wrote: >In light of the UN report and the impact of the hurricane, do we live in >a racist and classist society? > > > > >
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