Rossi Rant: Spike Lee and the no longer big easy

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Wednesday, August 23

Spike Lee and the no longer big easy

Did you happen to watch Spike Lee’s?
'WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE' ??

Well I just ran into my next door neighbor Mike the photographer
Who had just gotten back from New Orleans
And when I asked him how it was, he was like “man it was like the hurricane happened yesterday!”

he then demanded i tune in.. to lee

so last night I watched the second half of Spike Lee’s flick
And now im just dumbfounded..

This documentary won’t let you walk past New Orleans..it shoves the faces of the peoples who are American citizens, tax payers, home-owners..now made home-less, still home-less, being called REGUGEES by the media, being broken, being moved about the country..all with the same cry, just shoves those faces into your soul..

“Where is FEMA?”

“Where is George Bush?”

I couldn’t help trying to do some internal math when the question slipped out of my subconscious and into my frontal lobe…”WOULD THE MONEY WE ARE SPENDING TO REBUILD IRAQ, BE ENOUGH TO REBUILD NEW ORLEANS?

The other pesky question is
Just how in the hell can we let these insurance companies get away with not helping these people?

Someone has to step in and re-write the rules of the insurance industry.

The documentary does more then make you sad, it makes you furious.

So much,
So much of all of this could have been prevented..
And
So ok
It wasn’t

But what about now?

Why the hell are these people still pitching tents in the rubble of their former homes?

Should FEMA be the sole culprit to blame,should the too little too late Bush affect be to blame?
Should New Orleans itself be to blame for failing to protect their levees? For failing to have a better system in place?

Now that the people are displaced, the economy ruined, so much of the population of new Orleans perhaps never to return, now the land grabbers and money men step in, to buy up the land, to re-do this city in the size and shape of something maybe a whole lot whiter, maybe a whole lot richer.. who knows…

One things for sure
The New Orleans of old is no more

One can only hope that the new city will retain much of its former glory and spirit

0n a personal note
I kinda loved the part when musician Kanye West says on television "Bush doesn't care about black people." I thought Mike Myers was gonna throw up, or implode or just plain pass out…

You know I’ve been to New Orleans
Twice
Loved it both times
But I do have to say that I never felt less safe then the first time I went to new Orleans
There were some hoods I passed thru in a car that made the Bronx in the 70’s seem like Disney land..

I know there’s a tendency to think that those crime ridden poverty stricken, broken hoods are better off being re-built…but you know even the worst of neighborhoods held peoples lives, their legacies, their heritage, their culture, their blood.. I sure did want to see those hoods get some help and some clean up, but not to be quite literally washed away..

It also pissed me the hell off when I learned that this country has been leaching off Louisiana for years and years for oil that makes up a huge ass portion of what we use and we give them nada, nyet, for this.. shit honeys at least give those folks a fee, let that fee rebuild lives and homes and hearts..

One thing I did see
Is that in the worst of times
New Orleans folks banded together black and white

Maybe we’ll never know if racism had a part in the late, late, late show of aid to Katrina victims

Maybe we’ll never know if the finger should point to federal, state or local or D all of the above..

But what we do know is this is a huge pile of shit
And while there are plenty of people lined up to make payola off it
There are scarce few lined up with shovels..

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