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Watching the Spike Lee documentary on Katrina
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:31 pm
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:31 pm
I was only like 11 when Katrina hit, I remember the news reels of the flooding and the wreckage of NOLA but I didn’t really pay attention to what was being said on the news.
Going into this documentary I knew, it being a Spike Lee film, it’d have racial skews. But this shite us becoming unwatchable on the second episode because this whole thing has turned into a Bush bashing film because he’s racist and America is racist.
Did y’all get that vibe that were older during the time that this whole debacle was race related?
Eta: not trying to downplay the suffering of black people in the storm. But I’m not buying the racism line from this shite. Natural disasters dgaf about race.
Going into this documentary I knew, it being a Spike Lee film, it’d have racial skews. But this shite us becoming unwatchable on the second episode because this whole thing has turned into a Bush bashing film because he’s racist and America is racist.
Did y’all get that vibe that were older during the time that this whole debacle was race related?
Eta: not trying to downplay the suffering of black people in the storm. But I’m not buying the racism line from this shite. Natural disasters dgaf about race.
This post was edited on 7/29/18 at 10:52 pm
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Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:33 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
ahh...the Ole' When the Levees Broke..
have you gotten to that where she's like call me "My phone is 504-222-2222 this isn't any MIke Jones shite
I can't believe they blew that levee up in the 9th Ward to save the city....
have you gotten to that where she's like call me "My phone is 504-222-2222 this isn't any MIke Jones shite
I can't believe they blew that levee up in the 9th Ward to save the city....
This post was edited on 7/29/18 at 10:34 pm
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:34 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Stop. Watching.
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:34 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
quote:
I was only like 11 when Katrina hit
frick my life I'm old
quote:
Did y’all get that vibe that were older during the time that this whole debacle was race related?
Was it past your bedtime or something when this happened on tv?
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:36 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
The media tried to make it a race thing. It fricking wasn’t. Lake View, you know the really rich almost all white neighborhood, was devestated.
People from out of town would come in after Katrina and think only the poor areas were flooded. My dad drove a client from the NE through lake view and showed him what happened. The man was silent and at the end of the drive said “No one reported any of this”. Katrina was bad for everyone involved and to take a racist angle on a natural disaster is such a crock of shite agenda driven line of thinking.
People from out of town would come in after Katrina and think only the poor areas were flooded. My dad drove a client from the NE through lake view and showed him what happened. The man was silent and at the end of the drive said “No one reported any of this”. Katrina was bad for everyone involved and to take a racist angle on a natural disaster is such a crock of shite agenda driven line of thinking.
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:37 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
frick Spike Lee and Katrina
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:37 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
quote:Right before the double feature at the Bijou?
I remember the news reels of the flooding
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:37 pm to lsunurse
Hell, I was 11, when that happened my dad probably got pissed and changed the channel.
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:38 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Why are you watching that? Reggie Miller made his thoughts on Spike Lee clear almost 30 years ago.
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:39 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Do you even know what happened in that pic I posted?
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:39 pm to lsunurse
quote:GBHBP
you even know what happened in that pic I posted?
This post was edited on 7/29/18 at 10:40 pm
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:40 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
quote:
I was only like 11 when Katrina hit,
holy hell, I'm having an elder moment.
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:40 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Xavier got about $100 million in "loans" to rebuild. They paid under $10 million back. The rest was forgiven by government earlier this year.
Meanwhile UNO still isn't recovered.
But you know Racist country and all.
Meanwhile UNO still isn't recovered.
But you know Racist country and all.
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:40 pm to LaBR4
quote:
I can't believe they blew that levee up in the 9th Ward to save the city
Yeah, I knew about those conspiracies going into this, I laughed that off. The fact that somebody braved a Cat. 3 to blow a fricking levee was ridiculous.
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:41 pm to Rouge
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:41 pm to lsunurse
Yes, I’ve posted the video here myself before.
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:41 pm to lsunurse
Close enough
:-P
:-P
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:42 pm to O
Idk, I wanted to watch a documentary on Katrina after the thread from earlier. I couldn’t really find any on Prime, though.
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:43 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
I pulled out some old home videos today I made of my house after Katrina. Crazy to see the devastation around the city. I had some footage of me and a few friends went to Bourbon Street and had a few beers at Johnny Whites. This was around Sept 15th. 2 weeks after the storm.
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:46 pm to tgrbaitn08
I had moved to Tucson,AZ a month before the storm hit for my first travel RN assignment.
I had random strangers come up and ask me at places like the gas station or grocery store if I was a Katrina refugee(they would see the LA license plate).
Had a cop pull me over for speeding. He saw the LA plate and tried to joke with me by asking if my family floated away in the storm.
I had random strangers come up and ask me at places like the gas station or grocery store if I was a Katrina refugee(they would see the LA license plate).
Had a cop pull me over for speeding. He saw the LA plate and tried to joke with me by asking if my family floated away in the storm.
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