Malcolm's chickens done come home to roost.
AGAIN.
They roosted on JFK's ass, on MLK Jr.'s, on Malcolm's and on a whole lot of OTHER asses.
And now they're running the streets of a ruined city.
Rooting and roosting.
Booting and boosting.
"Act of God", indeed.
Betcha those words mean something a WHOLE lot different to bin Laden and HIS boys.
More:
Create a permanent underclass so that you will have consistently cheap labor to do the shitwork of society ("But...who'll clean the
shithouse!!!???" Lenny Bruce.), and when that society fails...macro OR micro, act of God or act of man...the generations of segregation, bad education and hopelessness do their work.
In the streets.
Create a population that obeys the law only at the point of a gun and then experience circumstances that force you to remove that gun? What the fuck do you expect?
The original sin of America is racism, and New Orleans is one of that racism's original homes, at least as far as racism American-style pertains to people of African ascent. The city produced a vibrant black community post-Civil War. It produced a completely original form of music (the first real "fusion" music ever, really), and six or seven generations of practitioners of that music...black, hispanic, AND white, worldwide...produced one of the strongest musical traditions ever to exist on the face of the earth.
But New Orleans remained in the past. A majority of the strongest, smartest, most imaginative young black people left during segregation days and the Depression for points north (The north wasn't a perfect haven in this regard...but it was a damned sight better than the south.), and the black community of the city devolved into a caricature of its former life. "Dixieland" and such, staged funeral marches like staged gunfights in the fake Death Valley Days and Dodge Cities of America instead of the burning tradition that produced transcendent geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet and Jelly Roll Morton.
Jazz didn't "go up the river" to Chicago.
The people who produced the society that PRODUCED THAT MUSIC left.
Many of the black people who stayed in New Orleans were the people who could not get out. During the pre-civil rights era AND during Katrina. Who didn't have the imagination or energy to see what was up. Didn't have the wherewithal to leave, most of them. On any level.
And although the people who were entrusted with the running of the city more than likely didn't exactly say "Fuck 'em. Put 'em in the Superdome", the fact remains that this racist city has BEEN a racist city for hundreds of years.
Not only racist...mob dominated, openly corrupt on every level, the breeding ground for the maggots who were used to kill JFK, the city that let Jim Garrison be Swift Boated into retirement when he tried to turn over the rocks under which the Clay Shaws and David Ferries and Carlos Marcellos lived. Don't believe the hype. New Orleans is DIRTY.
And now that the chickens have come home to roost...we're squabbling over a BAD WORD!!!???
Gotta love this blog.
Oppress millions of people on the basis of their skin color for 20 generations and when the shit hits the fan (once again) and someone tries to point it out, we get all PC on his ass?
Wise up.
Same thing would happen in ANY mass disaster in any city in the United States that has a permanent, relatively hopeless, oppressed and thus depressed underclass.
Black OR hispanic.
So...whose fault IS this?
It's not Katrina's fault.
It's not even the mayor's fault or the governor's.
OR the semi-President's. (Although had the trillions of dollars that we have wasted in useless wars been applied instead to the betterment of the population and infrastructure of the United States perhaps the pumps in New Orleans would have worked and the looting would not have happened. And yes, we'd have $5 gas like the rest of the developed world but we would have adjusted. No SUVs, more trains and Minis, fewer penitentiaries and penitents in and out of jail.. So?
So...whose fault is it?
It's OUR fault.
WE have allowed stupid, selfish sons of bitches to take over this government.
WE have supported weak, prevaricating fools in our efforts to "oppose" these thieves, and WE have allowed the strongest among us to be eliminated from contention in these efforts.
Put the niggers in the Superdome?
Yup.
Precisely.
Micro AND macro.
Macro?
Yup.
I've got news for ya.
The whole of the United States is OUR "Superdome", and almost all of us of are "the niggers" now. (Excepting of course the overseers and the plantation owners.) And Katrina?
Katrina is what's building in the Third World.
The fire next time.
Bet on it.
Force 5 with a bullet.
Wake up and smell the weatherman before it's too late for it to MATTER which way the wind blows.
I've got news for ya.
We're all niggers in the eyes of the PermaGov.
"Fuck 'em. Put 'em in the EnronDome."
"Fuck 'em. Put 'em in the BaghdadDome."
"Fuck 'em. Put 'em in the AmericaDome."
But mostly...
"Just plain fuck 'em".
AND "WE" HAVE JUST BENT ON OVER AND TAKEN IT.
Right to the hilt.
So...who's to blame again?
"It's just us chickens in HERE, boss..."
Who ya gonna call when there's nowhere left to go?
Ghostbusters?
WE are the ones to blame.
And we are the ones who have to fix it.
New Orleans is for all intents and purposes already gone, I think. (Unless of course we take our troops and money out of the Middle East and devote them to a massive rescue and rebuilding operation. Could be done...but it will not be.) If not gone...in BIG trouble for years and years.
Can our war-challenged economy handle the shock of a few million people suddenly losing 30% or 40% or even more of their economic power? Can it even handle the insurance bills, or will Butch give the same pardon to the insurance industry that he gives to every other large contributor who finances his band of thieves?
Who's next in line?
Wanna see what happens if there's an equivalent earthquake in LA?
If someone pops a nuclear cap in Detroit's ass?
I don't.
Do you?
So what do "WE" do?
Why...we beat up on a guy who wrote a strong headline.
Nice.
THAT'LL get it done.
Gotta love this blog.
We are ALL in the Superdome now, and the way things are going, it's just a matter of time before the roof comes off and the water starts to rise.
Unless WE do something stronger than criticize the language of our well-meaning brothers.
While we sit all safe in OUR chickenhouses..
Waiting for the chickens to come home to roost on OUR asses.
"YASSUH, boss!!! It's just us chickens in HERE, boss. Now you watch your LANGUAGE there, brother! Cain't have no spade-callin' up in HEAH!!! We a LIBERAL blog!!!"
Right.
Disgusting.
The bawk stops here.
"BAAAAWK bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk."
"AAAAAFLAC" my ASS!!!
Charles