The real ugliness is not in New Orleans.
September 3rd, 2005
This post, accusing the besieged citizens of New Orleans of “complaining and waiting for someone to hold their hands,” stunned and sickened me. I don’t think I’ve ever read a more dispassionate or cruel response to human suffering. If what is happening right now on the Gulf Coast is not cause for a “desperate SOS,” then God help us all.
“The character of a community emerges during a time of disaster and, thus far, the character of New Orleans has been ugly. . . The whole nation was proud of New Yorkers after 9/11. Are you proud of New Orleanians?”
This is the true nature of ugly: sitting in your safe, comfortable home with your loved ones, blogging blame and smug judgment upon dying and devastated people who have lost everything.
Entry Filed under: Uncategorized, Play nice! (Politics & Religion)
4 Comments
1. geogirl | September 3rd, 2005 at 2:18 pm
How sad. Humans are very good at tearing each other down. In fact, I think it’s what we do best.
New York faced a horrible tragedy yes, but at the end of the day they still had homes, they still had jobs, they still had food and drinking water. They didn’t have to face death 4 days after the event. They didn’t have to sit and watch a child die because it was 98 degrees with no airconditioning or shade of any kind and not one bottle of water to spare.
You cannot even compare the two disasters because they are just too different. It’s not even apples and oranges…it’s apples and asparagus.
as if I wasn’t already depressed enough.
2. kris | September 4th, 2005 at 9:39 pm
oh, what an ignorant fool.
3. Cory from Canada | September 5th, 2005 at 12:22 am
It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong man stumbles or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt April 23, 1910 — From “Citizenship in a Republic”, a speech delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
found in an email to CNN.com
4. the wife of the guy who took you to the prom | September 5th, 2005 at 12:26 pm
And I thought our President was a heartless idiot!
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