Dude no offense but you are either not black and or have not grown up on or below the poverty line. History tells us this type of thing happens to WE the BLACK folk on a regular basis. As for 9/11 watch loose change 2, because for the life of me I can't figure out how a plane crashes into a building that could withstand a meteor and then falls to the ground soley on top of itself. I watched the Veteran's Stadium be demolished and boy was 9/11 Deja Vu like a M*F**ker, no great plan there either huh, guess Guliani dropped the ball too eh. As for N.O. how do you get people to move from one location (with no $) to another location (and with no$). I mean if you knew you might die if you stayed home, and you could afford to leave, wouldn't you? What if you couldn't...then what. I guess you would have been on one of those roofs crying about the injustice. Another thing, how does the MEDIA (Anderson Cooper) get to a Catastrophic Natural Disaster before the damn military, please take your blinders off. Racism is as real in this country as Equal Rights is a joke. Don't get it messed up, no state level authority (Since Bull in Mississippi 60s) can just take money and distribute it or remake laws, believe that all orders come from Washington. 9/11 was an excuse to go to Iraq and that's all. If the management is poor, its because we have a sad excuse for a President or as he likes to call himself "DECIDER"

Check out MOVE in Philly, or the 1000 missing/stolen FBI documents from '64, or '65. The racism and the race card, hell the race deck of cards is obvious.

My brother, I've watched that LOOSECHANGE 9/11 series and it is interesting, but the portion that they discuss the planes collapse is pure speculation.  I've read just as much material and seen two documentaries on the HIST channel ( that doesnt mean its true) that explains how the fireproofing wasnt so fireproof.  People believe what they want and thats fine,  But I have to believe that since the support beams in the tower were damaged and destroyed that that would cause a collapse.  I dont see what motivation one would have to plant bombs in the tower to ensure its collapse. 

With NOLA, if they are 'living' there they obviously have some sort of money.  If I knew I might die somewhere, I'm leaving that place, I'd find a way.  I understand and respect the fact that some folks were not able to leave ahead of time, thats where the local gov't is supposed to step in.  Its so funny how Nagan developed this extensive evacuation plan AFTER THE HURRICANE.  That plan should have been in place years ago.  And I think that if the media could get in there, then they should have brought some food and water to the people.  Its a bit easier to get a guy and cameraman throught than a military unit.  Iraq would have happened regardless of 9/11.  9/11 was a plan that was years in the making.  Those muslims were plotting this all under the watch of the lax Clinton adminstration and it happened under Bush's watch so I guess blame both. But thats not the issue here.  Why was NOLA so fucked up before the hurricane??

1st MATT I'm a lady. Second any area in which the government sees the potential for profit will be made profitable in a centralized location of that area and all surrounding areas will be left to fall to the waistsides. (Look at every major tourist area with a CASINO ie Atlantic City, Las Vegas, Miami....are you noticing a trend it is astute poverty 1/2 mile from exiled prominence)

2. Like I said I WATCHED the Vet Stadium in Pa collapse due DEMOLISION...in the same manner these giant building fell. While speaking with a retired demo Vet of Vietnam...the implosion in his observation was that it was orchestrated, 'there's no way in hell that such a tall building didn't fall to either side but straight down...ain't you never played with leggos, it don't happen that way they had at least 15-20 floors padded down, if it was natural some others buildings would have went down, like a domino trick' I saw the MOVE 'incident' which occurred in a residential area (a block) and they DROPPED BOMBS on men, women and children....but the most disheartening part is THEY ORDERED AUTHORITIES TO LET THE HOUSES BURN this event ended up in like 100+homes being damaged, a lawsuit against the city, shitty houses 'via aide organizations' rebuilt with sub par materials all in the name of BEING AMERICAN which is synonomous for INT'L TRICKING  FOR DOLLARS

3. Imminent Domain law that was passed a couple of years ago was not for immediate use. The FEDS will NOT provide $ to rebuild, and the levees will not be made secure until 'more desirable citizens' buy the land. The intent is to turn Nola into a high-end impasse version of what it was. This is ALL ABOUT $, period. The land will be sold dirt cheep to investors that will develop the land and rebuild the levees WITH FED GRANTS AND APPROVAL and then turn it into $2M+ beach front property with it's own RODEO DR on BOURBON ST. (believe it)

THE ILLUSIONS FULFILLMENT IS NOT THAT WE BELEIVE THAT

WHICH WE SEE AND HEAR BUT THAT WE SEE AND HEAR THAT

WHICH WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT TO BELIEVE. (I wrote this/I own this)

I wonder what kind of aid (if any)the citizens are receiving. Are they being provided with the tools rebuild? Not just a nail and a hammer either. It will take more than thousand dollar debit cards to restart their whole life. What is being done to bring the displaced citizens home? The president can come in town to have lunch with the mayor on the anniversary... Photo Op??? But, will he reveal a clear and concise course of action to rebuild New Orleans??? A year later and there are still more questions than answers.

ok ok ok. a topic that is relevant. yes. yo truthfully one year after katrina has convinced me that ray nagin and every one else in power in new orleans are idiots. i got peoples in mississippi and alabama who are geting money and houses built for the ones they lost. you know why? because every other state goes through privately funded charities to distribute thier aid. they didn't wait for fema or the government. the local financial institutions are providing that, because they know waiting for the government is a dumb ass move. ray nagin wants a "chocolate" new orleans. that sounds like something off of the dave chappelle show man. i can't believe he said that shit on television. i feel he kinda set black people back with that one. if a white dude siad i want a vanilla anything black people would have called foul. all the federal aid is going somewhere, just not to the people. it's all the beuracracy that's holding shit up. this office has to fund this program which in turns doles out the money for this program. shit as long as the french quarter is open, no one cares. now all the former new orleanians are going crazy in houston and dallas. texas doesn't like that shit and they are prolly gonna send them back. my thing is what are we, the black community who are so concerned about our brothers and sisters, what are we doing? is there gonna be a telethon this year. they still need money? is oprah going back down? i'm still donating but my lil $100 a month aint doing shit. that's just a drop in the bucket. what are you doing illseed. by starting this blog you are raising awareness. that's positive, but we need to stop singing and start swinging. nothing's gonna happend unless we make it. and untill then the people are still gonna suffer. one.

oh yeah p.s. it's not a race thing. george bush does care about black people. just not poor ones.

As I sit around and watch the recovery efforts for Katrina. I wonder why hasn't more been done.  I think if you don't have money, you are not able to get anywhere and thats for black or white or whatever color you are. I felt terrible when Katrina happend. I tried to help by connecting families back together. It makes me want to go there and help these people. I could not even imagine how they feel to loose everything. But yet we have celbritities going out and buying vacation islands? Something here is not right.

Well illseed, to start u kno where all that money is going to, and the war in Iraq. My boy watched the documentary on the HBO, he said the canadian police were there before the fema people. In my opinion its a race and money thing wise. Everything got fuked up in new orleans but bourbon street!!! Like does that make sense, all of those hoods and people and houses that were destroyed, they didnt give a damn. Its like America is tryin to forget about it. The FEMA police will not let the victims who are still living in those trailers talk without a fema officer. This shit is corrupt and just sad. And u kno what, its goin to keep on happening until we stand up as a whole, and fight this corrupt bullshit in aMERICA.

Lamarr E.

You can't help but to be angry at the lack of help New Orleans have received. But in watching the documentary, WE already have the answer as to why there isnt anything being done... they really want all the poor, and black people to leave.. they dont want them there.... they had so many developers down there checking out the land within weeks .. they intend to keep the communication lines down so people will get frustrated enough to just give up. A year later, people are still going through so much red tape bullsh*t to PROVE they did own what is now lost... people who perished still haven't been identified, given proper burials... they had the technology to do DNA and they chose not to..I really wonder how many of the rich offered their guest houses to those in need...Why isnt Ray Nagin and the crew doing more... well.. he has a place to sleep... why isnt Bush doing more.:::chuckle:: Has he done anything right since he's been in office?..This guy is a joke!!.. But this is what happens when we dont go out and vote. We all say Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans... nope.. it wasn't the storm that did all this damage.... this damage was man made... we all are experiencing the same thing and we dont even realize it..... yet. 

obviously the citizens and those concerned about NOLA cannot rely on the Federal, state, or local government to step in and solve things.  In order for things to improve, the private sector must take charge.  Fuck FEMA and Blanco and Nagan and fuck bitching and complaining.  Donate money directly to victims or go down there yourself and lend a helping hand.  People have every right to be pissed off and to complain but it will not produce results!!!  Also, do something to cut down on the crime and corruption that is plaguing NOLA because that also hinders recovery. 

Last night I watched a documentary on the HIstory Channel regarding the KKK in the south and about how the LEVEES were blown with TNT in the 20s and again I believe in the 60s or 70s (black areas of domicile only effected). First of all its 2006, and we people of color just got the right to vote 41.5 years ago most of us have parents in this age range, hell we got rappers in this age range, which would translate to (not long at all). WE ARE NOT USING WHAT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE BEATEN, LYNCHED , FLOGGED (almost drowning you, letting you catch your breath and then almost drowning you again, over and over) BURNED and many just vanished in trying to fight to make sure WE could vote. I'm pissed at the fact that many of us (I'm under 30 too) look at voting as CORNY, but then complain about the laws that are put in place. The bottom line is that if you are a Dope Man, Prostitute, Booster, Assasin all the way to the other end of the spectrum with Preachers, Teachers, Police, Sm. Business owner....VOTING allows you to not only be aware of but assist in changing all these laws that you/I/we feel are unfare, unjust, targeting only the poor or black. HIP HOP leaders need to STAND UP or SHUT UP if you have access to the MEDIA and a MIC you need to try to get other youth on board to at least pay attention to what goes on in politics and the rest of the world (from my hood to ya hood). Be aware of what their rights are and to be willing to stand up for something other than being mad that some one stepped on your damn AF1. This month alone

1. Judge said BUSH wire taping is ILLEGAL and must STOP (didn't see it on news) but did he? NO! What's being done? NOT A DAMN THING!

2. A FLORIDA (where they stole the election) COMPUTER PROGRAMMER confessed under oath in a US Judiciary hearing that he was PAID by Republican FEENEY of (FL who is now a SENATOR) to create a program that would RIG THE ELECTION and be UNDETECTED without the paper ballots (that are popping up in peoples yards) What happened? NOT A DAMN THING!

I DIDN'T SEE THIS IN THE NEWS EITHER. IF WE DON'T PAY ATTENTION, 25 YEARS WHEN IT'S TIME TO RENEW    EQUAL VOTER RIGHTS ACT....WE WILL END RIGHT BACK IN THE FIELDS PICKING TOBACCO....since cotton is played.

FINALLY: I'm from Philadelphia PA where in the 80s a BLACK mayor, under to orders of a WHITE CITY HALL DROPPED BOMBS ON OVER 80 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN THAT WERE ALL BLACK AND POOR and then tried to LOCK up the survivors...for free speeching and thinking 

THIS WAS THE INFAMOUS MOVE 'INCIDENT' (google it, Mayor Wilson Goode)

Governmental Murder at its Finest, and if you think the KKK hasn't hung up its HOODs for 3-Piece suits and desks jobs in DC you're a 'Macaca' (watch the f-ing news some time) and they still hire house niggers to persuade and infiltrate the few of us that still think freely.

NOW ILLSEED, THIS IS WHAT WE NEED A SUMMIT ON

a guide to American awareness for people under seige.

PS- As for the aid being recieved....the FEDERAL GOV't is supposed to GIVE money to these RAVAGED areas and are instead telling N.O. to BORROW the money to rebuild. I'm backing Nagin, if the Fed's don't release the purse strings...he's a theif if he just takes it (do the math he's a black man in charge speaking truth...ain't happening) We sent 470BILLION to Iraq......what 100MILLION alledgedly went to N.Orleans. Take scale, measure watermelon and a kiwi and that's what's really hood

1. Those in charge want to turn New Orleans and the 9th Ward into a mini Beverly Hills/Miami-esque resort area.....those from the 9th won't recieve aid until there property is taken by the government (yeah it's some BS ergo Nagin's Chocolate City remarks) and then they WON'T be able to afford the cost to live in the area. Trust this is where it's going if WE ALL don't speak up AND ACT ERRRR DUH. No I'm not psychic but some great dead cat once said 'IF YOU DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO HISTORY/YOUR PAST IT WILL REPEAT ITSELF'

Damn if it ain't  Ref: Loose Change 2, Federal operative Mississippi Burning, and the 1000 documents stolen from the FBI in the 60s detailing all the dirty, rotten, slimy, UNAMERICAN things that they did and would never have let us know.

THANK YOU TO WHOMEVER J.EDGAR HOOVER PISSED OFF

There are a lot of things I have to say regarding this and some of the other replies which go to race, 9/11, and conspiracy.  With Katrina, means "cleansing" (first conspiracy reference) everybody in a positon of power, black and white dropped the ball.  The racism and conspiracy arguement are more of an issue with the Federal Government, who are made up of a lot of eliteist(sp?) people who give a fuck about blacks, for sure, poor whites, and Mexicans unless they are cheap workers.  The then Governor, Blanco I believe,  she should have mobilized the remaining Nat'l Guard, Reserves, etc.  because she is the person who has reach and can hit up the Feds for resources in a disaster situation.  Evacuation of the city two or three days could have been possible, or at least to higher ground in the country with sites, tents set up. Even if there was no Federal help before the 'cane hit, they could have been put in position to move in to the city with a minimum time frame.  The troops would have been capable of preventing the violence that occured and conflicts between the whites that didn't want blacks fleeing to their neighborhood.  And they could have prevented a lot of criminal acts.  As for the feds, they were told "this will be the worst storm ever to hit our coasts."  Boom! Thanks Ari.  I saw the video were Bush was in the conference call with weather officials and gave them a pat on the ass and sent them on their way.  First of all Bush is just a dumb puppet, he really is not the one who knows what to do.  He is just as evil as his superiors, because he does have them even if he is the President.  Wanna know where to money is going?  The same place it is in Iraq.  To the gov't bidders who have in's with the people in power.  The people who have great alliances, not even friendships, with the Presidumb and his boys. They think that paying the Haliburtons billions of dollars will boost our economy is what it is.  Nice theory but it hurts the people more than helps the economy.  The messed up thing is that we need these type of companies to restore infrastructure and they just do the same thing the oil co.s do.  Cheat to win.  And if you think Condalezzie gives a damn about her people, think again.  The cunt was playing tennis with her white (no offense) Ivy League elite friends when she could have been doing something.  Think about this.  I know people who went to the "high class" institutions.  I am from a place where all social classes at least go to school together.  Now the ones who had the grades AND money went of to those schools.  They are the type of people that could care less about people below their social standards i.e. poor blacks in New Orleans.  You know, the rich white kids that call the poor white kids white trash.  And the ones who are racist as hell in their societies, even against their own, but cool to your face.  I read them though, like a book.  Most of the Administration consists of these types.  I think that is the main problem with Katrina, indifference to the suffering of the poor.  Conspiracy is a part of the equation, not the whole, but it is there.  How come the real estate market in the N.O. is booming, even 1 to 2 months after Katrina.  How was the market prior to Katrina?  Maybe good, but not with huge asset bases like it will now be.  All the mom and pop shops are gone and will be replaced with a corporate i.e. republican base operation.  The levees being tampered with by a conspiracy faction is far-fetched, but is not unbelievable considering where we are.  This is the same government that plotted to take down a dummy plane of American students on break to make it look like the Cubans did it.  Killed Pablo Escobar to control the cocaine influx into America.  Y'all know (former CIA director) Bush Sr. financed the original cocaine boom of the 70's and 80's.  Escobar was a rival.  Why is it before like '82 you would not see a Jamaican unless it was Bob?  They did not let them in that's why. After that point, Jamaican mobs was pushing that shit hard in the poor majority black communities.  We just do not find out until 30 years later that the gov't is plotting to fool its own people.  9/11 was real but not what everybody thinks.  It was an investment strategy to me.  Natural Disaster on that scale messes the stock market up.  If you know its gonna happen, sell, wait for impending doom, and buy your financial tools really cheap afterward.  Are you gonna kill somebody that is in the family of someone that bailed you out of bankruptcy?  Or are you gonna return the favor one day and protect them?  I know you all can see that Bush and Bin Laden say the exact same things in speeches, just with different nouns and audiences.  And to the douchebag that thinks huge support beams are gonna collapse straight down after being rocked by a plane (in the middle of the building) AND a huge explosion, dude, seriously.  Think of a tree, one big support beam, having a big chunk taken out of it on one side.  Is it gonna collapse?  Buildings do not fall symmetrically either unless force is evenly distributed.  Sorry for the long post, illseed, but I had a lot of shit to get off my chest.  Peace in the Middle East.  McGizzo.  Much love to AllHipHop.com

P.S. If I end up clipped in the coming weeks,  think of our government.  Formed by "a bunch of rich white males (no offense) who didn't wanna pay their taxes."  Sound familiar.  Oh and I am not racist, I'm mixed and realistic.  I love everybody with the same passion that I dislike very few.  Poor people (every race) rise up! 

One year after the hurricane, I have reached the conclusion:

So many of the poor and underprivileged in NOLA have relied on government their whole lives to support them.  The really poor arent paying the taxes, they are using money taken from taxpayers to support low rent housing or food stamps etc...And when Katrina hit, the govt that they had relied on wasnt there when they needed it the most and it was and still is such a shock.  And arent the homeowners whose homes flooded receiving some sort of compensation through their flood or basic homeowners insurance.  And blame Bush all u want, but its  not his job to make sure every city has an evacuation plan, that falls on the mayor, who installed a plan after the fact. 

To conclude the conlusion, so many of these victims really do not know any better.  They actually think the levees were blown up and there is a govt conspiracy to keep folks from returning home. I mean, I cant fault them for being raised in a terribly mismanaged and uneducated state and thinking a certain way, government assistance is really all they know.

It's crazy man... My geography textbook (marked at least 5 years before Katrina) actually showed that the water levels were gonna rise and the government still didnt do shit.  I'm Canadian, and personally, it disappoints the shit outta me that Canadians showed up on the scene before FEMA.  We're talking about hundreds, maybe thousands of miles between point A to point B.  And the fact of the matter is, the government didnt do a damn thing.  Wasnt it T.I who raised $250,000 fo Katrina on a radio show alone, while the American government spends billions in "war" terms?  It's messed up.  Fuckin conspiracy governments.  And with this Conservative guy (Stephen Harper) in office for Canada, we're pretty much a puppet to George Bush.  At least when Jean Chretien was in office, we actually had our own minds to say and take a stance on something.

Illseed, watch out for the powers that be!  Fuck you Dick Cheney, if you're reading this.

The whole thing really emphasis the need for people ( not just black people) to be able to assist eachother or assist with aid in situations like this. If we cant depend on the local goverments, or the federal goverment, it falls into the peoples hands to help in these situations.  And my black people, this is even more proof that we need more unity and teamwork between us- we have to be self reliant to a large degree. This is a country that doesnt have our best interests in mind or in heart. In fact, this country doesnt have ANY poor persons interests in mind or in heart. To be black AND poor...yeah thats tough, dont come to this administration with your hands out lol you will be let down...

Not that it isnt a good thing either but we need more than entertainers and athletes to be  out there helping the people. WHat about all the black professionals..executives, ceos, doctors, lawyers? This is kind of off subject but why arent they in the ghettos, in the schools, like the entertainers? We need to help EACHOTHER. Obviously the poor black people in N.O. wuld have problems evacuating because of financial reasons- I COULD HAVE TOLD U THAT b4 all the shit happened. If there was a crisis in illinois and the residents of a project had to go to indiana or some shit, there would b an issue because of financial reasons- BUT some1 should have the foresight and COMMON SENSE to see this problem, and there should have been aid ( either vehicular, or financial) to get these people the fuck out. Since the the goverment didnt come through, WE should have.

It's time to stop bitching and GET RIGHT. If im nt mistaken Malcolm X was an advocate of segregation because he felt the african american community needed to stabalize themselves and get GET RIGHT within their own communities before they could peacefully and affectively co-exist with white america. Im not 100 percent in agreement with the whole segregation thing, but we do need to FIRST come together and get OUR shit right b4 we can really complain about injustices that THEY do to us because realistically u gotta think...how much of it is us, and how much of it is them? I say it's 50/50 lol

I watched SPIKE LEE's Docu-reminder yesterday, yeah it was long, yeah it was sad, disturbing, a reminder that we are merely baby steps from the treatment our ancestry felt less than a century ago and you know what I couldn't cry despite a real connection with the pain and helplessness of the people, the disgust enthralled me. It was put together well and should have enraged every viewer to make a decision that they will make a stance. If you don't voice your right to vote and create change, if you still require a VOTE or DIE campaign to get you out of your chair to go VOTE for indivduals that have your best interest (for the most part) in mind...well we are all doomed. I am exhausted on this topic...results will be see in the votes, or not.

RECAP:

The illusions fulfillment is not that we believe that which we see and hear but that we see and hear that which we have been taught to believe.

maybe I was not clear.  Ultimately Bush is responsible, that comes with being the president.  However, it is not his responsibility to make sure that every city has an evacuation plan for a disaster.  That is left up to local government, aka mayors and governors.  I'm glad that Nagin has developed an evacuation plan, but had he done it years ago, much of this could have been avoided.  FEMA dropped the ball by not doing there part of getting down there sooner.  The national guard did a good job, according to the hist channel docu, by airlifting hordes of people to safe locations. 

I dont care what color anyone is, white people and blacks fucked up in this situation.  But I dont see why people arent getting their insurance settlements from their home and flood insurance policy.

Well I'm from Newe Orleans and I'm a victim of Hurricane Katrina. Now I was fortunate enough to evacuate but some of my friends and family weren't. I believe that they have improved some but there is so much more that needs to be done. As for the looters, I believe the people who stole things like TVs, stereos, and other Electronics were just being greedy. But I believe that the ones who stole food and clothes were justified in their actions because they were in a desperate situation. To reply to Matt, not all the schools in New Orleans  were "fucked up" I am a product of the Orleans Parish School System and I'm extremely offended by some of the comments that you made. The less fortunate residents of New Orleans did depend on the Federal Government as first responders because that's what FEMA was created for. It is the FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY. Those people are supposed to respond to natural disasters. Katrina victims were not the only ones depending on FEMA. For your information victims of tornados, floods, mudslides and anything else benefit from FEMA. As for Houston, I've seen myself that residents of Houston may times provoked evacuees. Now, I'm not saying that killing is but New Orleanians will NEVER let any talk down to us. Matt, you are  ignorant. If there was no way for people to evacuate then how were going to evacuate. It has been proven that in 2001 those levees were tested and the govt. knew that they were not strong enough to withstand a Category 3 hurricane, so anything more powerful would definitely cause the levees to breech.

Another thing, New Orleans wasn't the only city affected by Katrina. The whole Gulf Coast was damaged and alot of those people face the same problems as the people of New Orleans.

Hi there fellow AHH writer.  I was reading some of the comments re: this post.  I'm from there, born and raised. My dad almost died there along w/ aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors and childhood friends.  I won't nit-pick, although I do find some comments comical. 

My thoughts are simple.  I had a great catholic education.  My father is an egineer @ Xavier University, my mother an accountant.  I say that because we weren't all stealing guns and acting crazy. In fact, my father left our house in the suburbs, no, not the jects, thanks media, in order to make safe the campus.  He did and was trapped for days.  My heart patient, diabetic daddy had to swim for his life. I am not being dramatic. 

I will admit that my beaitiful home was becoming a dark sahdow of itself, but to flood the city, which I do beleive, is a horror so wretched, so demented, so extreme.  Before the media latched onto natives talking about the loud boom which was heard throughout the city.  My family, days later, huddled in shelters talked off the boom in great detail.  I beleive it. 

In fact, two weeks later an engineer traveled to the wall where the water supossedly flooded.  His exact statement, "the water never reached the levels reported."   At that moment I threw away the notion that my happy drunken family members weren't so drunk afterall.  I'm kidding, sort of.

So, I say that to say this.  Why would a predomintaely all Black, catholic city, yup the secret is out, garner help?  The up-scale, protestant communities in Mississippi are already thriving and they were actually hit by the hurricane, we weren't. 

New Orleans is valuable.  It will soon be trendy.  I also believe that.  The cost of living is already modeling that of L.A. and New York.  It's disgusting.  

Who got the Red Cross money?  Not us and I even helped raise money for them, with them, on television.  It's sickening. 

The best thing that came from this, is the opening of conservative souhterners eyes regarding George Bush.  They help put him in office.  I know.  In agaony, I was having a huge martini @ Katana's watching Louisiana light up for Bush.  Not today.  They rather contend with the homosexuals in the Quarter than be reduced to third world residents, waiting in LONG lines for clean drinking water.

One of our cars is still standing straight up in the canal, a year later.  Humph, a year later; still a hot shitty mess - literally.

P.S. to the guy who believes we were wining about not being helped.  Try not knowing if your entire family is dead or alive, eatin' by crocs or drowned in sewage, FOR DAYS.   

Ok.  First , let me start off by saying Matt are you from New Orleans? I Know I am.  So you can't reply to things that you don't know about. Right now I'm using my girlfriend's myspace page becase I had to speak my peace. After reading alot of the topics let me break down the so called truth and so called lies. To follow up on the loose change post; The young lady was right. So can't answer that statement unless you paid attention to that movie. I believe that at least one of the levees were blown to protect the French Quarters from flooding. I left the city before the hurricane but at least 4 of my friends stayed and each one chriped me (nextel direct connect and text messaging were the only means of some type of communication) telling me they heard explosions at least 3 of them. Second the streets wasn't flooded when the hurricane passed, but when the water rose  in St. Brenard Parish ,La They were scared that this water would over flow the industrial canal. So to make the water move the way they wanted something must be done.. The Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans East, Gentiily, And Certain other areas had to be sacrificed. All that wasn't flooded was all "White" areas and The French Quarters.

Before the hurricane they were moving people out of the projects new homes in the Ninth Ward because they knew that levees were not able to withstand a cat 3 hurricane.  Now the corruption in New Orleans is just like any major city with places labeled "the Hood" They give these "Hoods" enough money to get by like fixing up homes or new parks or give kids school items but it's only enough to contain them. While the real money is used for cover ups, side funding, and passing bills like "you can't smoke in public places. Money is mismanaged everyday in the U.S. . Who ever think the United States Government really care about the lives of their American people you must be a fool. Look at these Events and think about them and the death tolls that could of been pervented. 9/11 over a 1000 people dead, War in Iraq 1000 of our America people Hurricane Katrina Over 1000 people. add em up playa!  myspace.com/Push_it_to_the_limit