Film Review: Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem for New Orleans in Four Acts"
Note: I don't think that this has already been posted here, although I was away this past weekend. If it has been posted, sorry. Those of you on SUNTA's mailing list may have already read this review as well. Sounds like a great documentary. I hope some of you were able to catch it.
The City that Care Forgot: Spike Lee and the 'New' New Orleans ( Read more... )
The City that Care Forgot: Spike Lee and the 'New' New Orleans ( Read more... )
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the docu had me sobbing, but, i am glad for it.
Spike Lee bore witness for a culture worth honoring.
bearing witness is a big part of the culture as the story of those oppressed (who built the city) was denied throughout our American history.
"Can i get a witness?"
bearing witness supports and creates hope where faith sometimes wains
they were singing "this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine..." in the Superdome, day 3, without food, water, plumbing, wading in sewage, elders dying, babies starving...and singing "...this little light..." yes, that is the culture i call home
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I would really like to see it. The American Library Association held its annual meeting in New Orleans this past June, as planned, and I went. It was the first time I'd been to New Orleans in 20 years and what struck me the most was how empty it was-not just the flooded neighborhoods that I saw on my volunteer work day, but the CBD and the French Quarter. It was spooky.
The bus driver for our volunteer work crew told us how he'd spent a week after the hurricane looking for somewhere safe to drop off a busload of kids with Down's Syndrome. They wound up somewhere in Texas, I think.
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