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Controversy on Flickr.com: Katrina Relief
cobalt123
10:34h
My current photo is a political statement through art about the insanity of this devastation and the deficit and morally reprehensible federal government response to these horrors and tragedies. The image is now drawing considerable attention and angry comments in the photo stream by some flickr.com members. However, more members seem to appreciate the artwork and my messages. It seems that there is quite a bit of blame now extending towards victims and defense by reports that these victims perhaps don't deserve aid for the reports of gunfire and looting. I base this one what I read, see and hear in mainstream US media. Wild rumors feed the blame to judge the homeless and evacuees. This defense of federal government response that is far short of meeting critical needs is despicable. This blame of the victims must stop. This rejection of non-jingoistic rhetoric must stop! Stop the insanity never was more apropos than now. I myself may have been one of those who was NOT ABLE TO EVACUATE for my income is low and I have a disabled adult son. To have the income for a full tank of gas at the ready and a reliable car, let alone the money to head off into uncertainty, well that may have not been my fate at the first warnings of the scale of this disaster. Many many middle-class and wealthy white folks have been evacuated and are homeless, having lost everything. However, many of these people have contacts and resources from without and will likely survive much better. Overall, the criticism of the relief response is a damning comment on the politics of poverty. Never before in our American history has there been such a clear example of the degradation of the less fortunate in our own society. ... Link
The Next Katrina
cobalt123
19:54h
If you like this image, please consider this... If you click on this link below, the image on flickr.comwill record another "view". The more views and the more comments and the more "favs" it gets, the more attention it gets. Americans are pretty fed-up with business as usual, politics as usual, and all the insane reasons given that the US was not ready to deal with the Hurricane Katrina devastation! Our president TURNED DOWN assistance from other countries! Pride is more important, doncha know. And of course, we would not want to divert funds from Iraq, now would we? Poverty, racism,glad-handing politicking about Bush Administration agendas, and the president's vacation took turns in creating the disaster and devastation that keeps on giving, from Hurricane Katrina. This is the link: and this is the image: ... Link |
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