RoscoPColtrane wrote:....Thank you I try to be.
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You are, and I’m sorry that I crapped your thread.
I just want people to realize that damn hurricane caused a major racial shift in this nation. Katrina brought to the surface our failures as a nation, not just the failures of Louisiana. What happened along the Gulf Coast was catastrophic, but it could have happened almost any place in this nation.
Katrina tested us and we failed. Even the best laid out plans are prone to failure, and we as a nation failed that test on every level. If we don’t stop pointing fingers at who did wrong and start trying to figure out what went wrong, this will happen again one day. Maybe when a major earthquake hits California or some massive tornado hits the Midwest, but we will be tested again, and let’s all try to make a point in not failing again.
The water flooded a massive area, and when the news got here it seems as if they went to the poorest area in the city. The media is the ones propagating the race issue. Yes the poor area did flood, but so did the million dollar homes along the Lakefront. Water does not discriminate. Most people think that only the poor got screwed, the news mostly covered only the two breaks in the levee system that effected them, never mind the 51 other breaks that happened.
… The Great Mississippi Flood occurred in 1927 when the Mississippi River breached levees and flooded 27,000 square miles, killing 246 people in seven states and displacing 700,000 people.
In the North Sea flood of 1953, levees and flood defenses collapsed in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, killing over 2,100 people.
On June 3, 2004, Jones Tract, an inland island that is protected by a series of levees located in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, failed. Though the exact cause of the levee failure is not known, the breach in the levee allowed water from the Middle River to flood the island.
On August 29, 2005, levees in metropolitan New Orleans breached in 53 different places and caused flooding when Hurricane Katrina came ashore and passed east of New Orleans. These levees, built and constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, breached and failed. 80% of the City was submerged. The Industrial Canal breach in the Ninth Ward residential neighborhood destroyed some vehicles and homes. Effects of breached levees are discussed further in Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. In New Orleans, the US Army Corps of Engineers is, by federal mandate, the sole agency responsible for levee design and construction as defined in the Flood Control Act of 1965….
It happened before and it will happen again. History proves that.
People think that we as a state control the levee system, but we don’t. The US Army Corps of Engineers built them, and as a state we can’t touch them without federal approval.
Yes, I live in a sh*tbox of a state, but its home. It is one of the most historical and culturally significant states in the United States of America. From Jefferson’s purchase of the Louisiana territory which spread from the Gulf of Mexico to what is now Canada, and ultimately lead to the westward expansion, to the battle of New Orleans in 1815 led by Andrew Jackson which stopped the British invasion.
We have to take the good with the bad, but this state does way more good for the nation then bad. I think its time we all ask ourselves “
when will it happen here?” and not say “
it can’t happen here, can it?”.
that sucks ,I guess I've been lucky over the years,never had a breakin,
Maybe people should start walking on glass when they mention a "white guy".... I think we all need to grow the f up when it comes to this race crap...
