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(1,634 posts)and our government prevented anyone to help them. I could not believe this was happening in my country. With ALL of this country's resources NO boats, planes, trucks, food & water until the damage was COMPLETE? Also, I cannot forget the dead bodies floating and laying in the streets - for days.
And lets not forget the the media's racist coverage of referring to black survivors as "refugees" like they were not American citizens, or when they referred to black folks as "looters" and white folks as "finders".
As an black woman watching this, the people there looked like MY sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, aunties & grannies.
Katrina, the government's response and the circumstances around it, has change my view of this country forever...