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Surviving Katrina: Barred from the Superdome, struggling to survive
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 12, 2005 08:40pm |
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| Category | Perspective |
| News Date | Monday, September 12, 2005 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | We were finally airlifted out of New Orleans two days ago and arrived home yesterday (Saturday). We have yet to see any of the TV coverage or look at a newspaper. We are willing to guess that there were no video images or front-page pictures of European or affluent white tourists looting the Walgreen�s in the French Quarter.
We also suspect the media will have been inundated with "hero" images of the National Guard, the troops and the police struggling to help the "victims" of the Hurricane. What you will not see, but what we witnessed, were the real heroes and sheroes of the hurricane relief effort: the working class of New Orleans.
The hotels turned us out and locked their doors, telling us that the "officials" told us to report to the convention center to wait for more buses.
The Guards told us we would not be allowed into the Superdome as the City�s primary shelter had descended into a humanitarian and health hellhole. The guards further told us that the City�s only other shelter, the Convention Center, was also descending into chaos and squalor and that the police were not allowing anyone else in. Quite naturally, we asked, "If we can�t go to the only 2 shelters in the City, what is our alternative?" The guards told us that that was our problem, and no they did not have extra water to give to us. This would be the start of our numerous encounters with callous and hostile "law enforcement." |
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