Saturday, January 16, 2010

Geaux Saints! Divisional Champions! Yeah!

Haiti is not Katrina
~Kathleen Tierney


Why Haiti is not New Orleans
~John McQuaid
~H/T~Levees.org
~When disaster strikes, it’s invariably followed by a rush of memes and metaphors about What It All Means.
In the aftermath of the disaster in Haiti, one of the ideas circulating is particularly facile and wrong-headed: likening the Haitian quake and Hurricane Katrina.

This is a dangerous comparison not only because Haiti is not New Orleans, but because New Orleans is not Haiti.
Yes, Louisiana has more than its share of corruption, poverty and social dysfunction. But to liken it to Haiti is to buy into the insidious notion that has plagued New Orleans before and after Katrina: that it is a geographical, cultural and demographic outlier, and thus irrelevant — and at worst not really part of America at all.

~Media Still Overplaying Race Card in Katrina Analysis?
~Vital Statistics from St. Gabriel Morgue, 11/14/05 (pdf)

How To Help in Haiti: the Grass- Roots Version~Harry Shearer

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