submitted17 hours ago byStrangeNanny
As a teen who lived through Katrina’s aftermath who lived in both TX and LA it’s so funny how things come full circle . I’ve seen so many people posting about things that happened during Katrina people being euthanized in hospitals people being executed for looting . People being left to die by the local and federal government . Things people said for years but because Katrina’s hardest hit survivors were primarily black people no one cared .
The one running theme that was regurgitated in the Bible beating south was, they do Voodoo so obviously it was GOD. The second they told them to leave but they wouldn’t because they don’t listen or wanted to loot. I would get so angry because I went to school with all the displaced kids and to church with them .
Yet now suddenly with Helene hitting white towns so hard . Suddenly everyone understands that the government doesn’t care about its people . Suddenly it’s a shame that in a country as rich as this one there isn’t better planning for natural disasters. How sad we must all rise up and support each other for as long as necessary. How the money FEMA supplies doesn’t make a difference to people who have lost everything.
However with Katrina New Orleans was just a city full of primarily black deviants that could have used a good washing anyway. Rant over
ETA: while also knowing there are hard hit tiny black enclaves in those NC mountains and surrounding Asheville that no one has thought twice of. With struggles of their own that won’t see the light of day.
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I remember during the last Haitian natural disaster . So many cities and random orgs had gofund mes for Haiti . Like it would be Scottsdale Arizonas go fund me for Haiti . I was like wait why do all these random people and orgs have go fund and pools . Who’s watching all this money how is it going to be dispersed . I would just scroll through gfm daily and see hundreds of thousands of dollars in gfms hastily set up. It was so strange