Gulf (state park) → Pensacola → Fort Pickens → Topsail Hill → St Andrews (state park) → Indian Pass

[amw]

I just ate the best bagel i have had in years. Actually i scoffed two, because the first one was so good i didn't save the other for dinner as planned

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[amw]

This is an interesting video, although i do get the sense it is a bit the "woke" style of trying to shoehorn racism into everything.

In the case of Louisiana, i didn't get the sense that it was black communities being explicitly targeted for not rebuilding, it's just poor communities that aren't getting the support they need. It's true that poor communities are disproportionately black, but there are plenty of non-black businesses and homes that have been destroyed and not rebuilt too.

The real trouble is the rich only looking out for themselves. That's plain to see with all the fancy rebuilt stilt houses along the coast, which are all well out of the price range of ordinary people, mostly built by Hispanic laborers, and mostly owned by non-Hispanic whites. The race aspect is an incidental point now, i think - the capitalist system is working as intended where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It's just that because of historical reasons, disproportionately more white people are in the rich bucket and disproportionately more non-white people are in the poor bucket.

[jenndolari]

Too true. I was more focused on the causes of the disasters, with the floods, ice storms and hurricanes then the racism, so I kinda emphasized that in my head when I posted it here.

[amw]

Fair enough! Yeah, Louisiana is showing damage from two hits this year, but even in Florida panhandle, they were still rebuilding from Michael in 2018. Honestly, i get the feeling the Mississippi gulf coast is still fucked from Katrina.

It must take years for a community to build back after a hurricane, and if they depended on tourists then they might never come back completely as tourists start going elsewhere. COVID probably hit that aspect of it too. I've met a few blue state people up north who say that they're going to avoid red states until the vaccination policies improve, and other blue state people who are on holiday down here who said their friends or family wouldn't come down any more. Then, of course, there are less under-the-table workers available due to Trump's and Biden's shitty immigration policies that are forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico instead of getting processed in the US like the pre-Trump era. Add climate change and ever-more-frequent hurricanes on the top... It really doesn't seem like a part of America that has a great future.