Comments on: Katrina – Right of Return http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/01/03/katrina-right-of-return/ Making the Connections Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:31:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: LSU FOOTBALL http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/01/03/katrina-right-of-return/#comment-123369 LSU FOOTBALL Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:25:07 +0000 http://feralscholar.org/blog/?p=246#comment-123369 I still have a hard time looking at those flood pics. :O( I still have a hard time looking at those flood pics. :O(

]]> By: Yolanda Carrington http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/01/03/katrina-right-of-return/#comment-7848 Yolanda Carrington Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:08:37 +0000 http://feralscholar.org/blog/?p=246#comment-7848 When I think about Katrina, I'm reminded of what I learned about the Potato Famine, the event one hundred sixty years ago that drove millions of Irish people to the United States. Same process: an oppressed nationality already living in economically precarious conditions, a natural disaster hits, a dominant nationality government neglects to provide SUBSTANTIVE relief for the survivors, and people are forced to leave the only home on Earth they have ever known. But when people fail to remember shit, shit happens again. After the massive genocide of First Nations peoples, after the sadistic enslavement of Africans on American soil, after a full century of state-sponsored oppression against the Africans' descendants, you would think our government would learn better. But that's not how a government works. From my perspective, I think that utimately it will take hard international pressure to force this Administration and Congress to do right by the survivors of Katrina. The White nationalist government simply doesn't see the value in Black lives. That's a hard fact to face, but it's real. I sure wish it were different. When I think about Katrina, I’m reminded of what I learned about the Potato Famine, the event one hundred sixty years ago that drove millions of Irish people to the United States. Same process: an oppressed nationality already living in economically precarious conditions, a natural disaster hits, a dominant nationality government neglects to provide SUBSTANTIVE relief for the survivors, and people are forced to leave the only home on Earth they have ever known.

But when people fail to remember shit, shit happens again.

After the massive genocide of First Nations peoples, after the sadistic enslavement of Africans on American soil, after a full century of state-sponsored oppression against the Africans’ descendants, you would think our government would learn better. But that’s not how a government works.

From my perspective, I think that utimately it will take hard international pressure to force this Administration and Congress to do right by the survivors of Katrina. The White nationalist government simply doesn’t see the value in Black lives. That’s a hard fact to face, but it’s real.

I sure wish it were different.

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