Katrina: Come Hell or High Water

I look forward to Katrina docs every year just like a good 9/11 doc.

My favorite holidays.

Watched it last night with the wife.

If you’re wanting a documentary about the overall Katrina disaster, you’ll be disappointed. If you want a documentary about the black experience in the Katrina disaster with plenty of “white-man bad and everything is their fault” sprinkled in, you’ll love it.

Watched the entire thing last night.

Watched a national geo one a week or so back.

Gen Honore is the man

Also sick and tired of the excuses, besides the corp of engineers failure and govt response failure, that people in both docs blame including racism

Certainly isn’t new.
Came out awhile ago.
Spike Lee is behind it, so racism is a central theme.

Exactly.

Its like 10 years old, and while has sone factual components, it is overall, crap.

Sick of it, and of Spike Lee.

I watched the first two episodes last night. Only white people to be found anywhere so far are Kathleen Blanco and Mitch Landriu. He is very proud of the fact that he was once the lieutenant governor of Louisiana. He mentioned it about 37 times in 10 minutes.

Not one mention of Lakeview or the Mississippi Gulf Coast yet. Not holding my breath that is going to be touched on in episode 3.

And yes, Spike Lee is behind it so of course they brought back that crazy arse woman from the first documentary. Phyllis something or other is her name. Huge shocker that this woman did not age very well over the last 20 years.

The interviewed the same dude from the Hulu Katrina documentary that was recently released. I forget his first name, but his last name is Shelton. Amazing how the Hulu documentary portrays him as a pretty decent guy, and the Netflix documentary portrays him as a huge whining victim throughout the entire thing.

All in all, I’ll watch the last episode because it’s just like watching a train wreck at this point.

Hell or High Water is a very good movie. Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine.

Typical blame everyone else for their problems.

And overdramitized experiences. One woman says a 2x4 would have taken her head off of she had looked outside mere seconds later, and another man says winds in NO were 150mph.

Not much mention of Mississippi where homes were really leveled.

I watched the first two episodes. Same old shite honestly. Incompetent leadership, poor people in the poverty areas were overlooked, racist whites blah blah blah. It's just lazy storytelling at this point.