Back to reality...

[eowyn_wannabe]

Well, I've missed you, f-list! I came back from my trip to Houston and New Orleans last Tuesday evening. My sister stayed until Friday morning, so we had lots of visiting time, during which she became acquainted with and in love with Firefly and Serenity. I don't think I have found anyone yet who didn't absolutely love it...except for my mother-

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[stufsocker]

Having watched three of the four parts of the documentary, I'm going to have to agree with you. While he took some pains to not make it look like he was only making a doco about the entire city, it really was quite propagandist in scope. While the whole event and the months after are still horrifying and it's appalling to think of what happened, it didn't specifically happen b/c "President bush hates black people" but rather a widespread government FUBAR that affected an entire city. The blame falls on all sorts of shoulders and the miscommunications between people who, i guess, were trying to be more professional or beurocratic than they should have been in this situation. They needed emergency thinking and no one wanted to step up. The thing that I did hear about that I hadn't heard until this point was that government officials in the Jefferson parish sent police with shotguns to man all the bridges so that no one from New Orleans could come into their land. They actually forced people to stay back several more days when they

[eowyn_wannabe]

I place the blame with: (a) The Army Corps of Engineers, (b) The Orleans Parish Levee Board, (c) Mayor Nagin, and (d) Governor Blanco.

[stufsocker]

I would add Bush, Condi, and Brown to that list as well.

[stufsocker]

In terms of emergency services, care, and lack thereof on both counts.

[kaidysoft]

*hugs* glad you are back! :D

and as for Mr. Lee - never held too much faith in what he had to say on the issue either, nor did I really care about his doc. Some conspiracy theories are a bit too much for me.

[eowyn_wannabe]

It really made me blow a gasket (internally, of course - I'm not a yeller). How dare he come from Brooklyn, all-powerful, all-knowing, without getting the real story? But this is the issue I have with documentaries. Filmmakers are never unbiased when they make them. They can't be. They make a documentary because they're passionate about the person or the issue or the event. But to people like Spike, my mother's suffering, her neighbors' suffering, and the suffering of people in the flooded hospitals-- it just doesn't count.