http://angelahayden.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/trouble-the-water-its-not-about-a-hurricane-its-about-america/ progressive liberal feminist humanist art electic activist activism alternative-news counterculture brainstorming creative arts civil-liberties culture equal-rights human-rights democracy gender green indie propaganda satire Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:20:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://angelahayden.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/trouble-the-water-its-not-about-a-hurricane-its-about-america/#comment-106 Erin Baldridge Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:48:51 +0000 http://angelahayden.wordpress.com/?p=344#comment-106 I was a Red Cross volunteer from Ohio,we started in Baton Rouge and were moved to Monroe La. It was like I was watching a horror film. The way people suffered in front of your eyes was enough to give you nightmares, and we couldn't do anything to help them, just basic medical care. The evacuees that were dropping like flies in the 103 degree heat outside the shelter while they stood in line for hours just to get in our shelter were the worst, the hospitals were overflowing, we had little to no medicine to give these people, and the police were trying to leave because we refused to turn over the names of evacuees that they only wanted so they could put them in jail. The police wanted to search what little belongins they had escaped with and put everything through metal detectors, everything was a weapon to them, the police referred to them as dumb niggers, that this was God's way of "cleaning out New Orleans" I felt like my hands were tied, it was like the end of the world to me and the babies were so sick, old men dying from the heat outside, this wouldn't have happened in any other American city, if these people would have been the same color as me, it would have been a whole other news story. There wouldn't be white people on their roof for days in the heat with no water or food, no white bodies floating bloated in the water for a week, no old people left in a nursing home to drowned or die in the heat. No one called a looter, no one left homeless, the government cared more about sending black men to Iraq when they should have been here fighting the real American war, NEW ORLEANS. I was a Red Cross volunteer from Ohio,we started in Baton Rouge and were moved to Monroe La. It was like I was watching a horror film. The way people suffered in front of your eyes was enough to give you nightmares, and we couldn’t do anything to help them, just basic medical care. The evacuees that were dropping like flies in the 103 degree heat outside the shelter while they stood in line for hours just to get in our shelter were the worst, the hospitals were overflowing, we had little to no medicine to give these people, and the police were trying to leave because we refused to turn over the names of evacuees that they only wanted so they could put them in jail. The police wanted to search what little belongins they had escaped with and put everything through metal detectors, everything was a weapon to them, the police referred to them as dumb niggers, that this was God’s way of “cleaning out New Orleans” I felt like my hands were tied, it was like the end of the world to me and the babies were so sick, old men dying from the heat outside, this wouldn’t have happened in any other American city, if these people would have been the same color as me, it would have been a whole other news story. There wouldn’t be white people on their roof for days in the heat with no water or food, no white bodies floating bloated in the water for a week, no old people left in a nursing home to drowned or die in the heat. No one called a looter, no one left homeless, the government cared more about sending black men to Iraq when they should have been here fighting the real American war, NEW ORLEANS.

]]> http://angelahayden.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/trouble-the-water-its-not-about-a-hurricane-its-about-america/#comment-2 Black Economic Empowerment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:34:02 +0000 http://angelahayden.wordpress.com/?p=344#comment-2 America has about another two more steps to go before racism is dead and gone to being black in America becomes no worse than being, say, Jewish. <a href="http://beepartner.com/" rel="nofollow">Black Economic Empowerment</a> America has about another two more steps to go before racism is dead and gone to being black in America becomes no worse than being, say, Jewish. Black Economic Empowerment

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