Monday, September 05, 2005
Katrinaland
Maybe I'll change the name of my blog for awhile...Anyhow, after apologizing for losing yesterday's post, I see it went up...typos and all. Go figure! I came back to balance it. I don't mean to suggest that everything that is going on is racial. I think a good chunk of the failure to respond has been garden-variety ineptitude. And I also don't mean to paint Baton Rouge with a broad brush...many of the people here have been very nice and this experience has been traumatic for everyone. But like my favorite novel--Invisible Man--I couldn't help but to fill out the opportunities I've had to see how race continues to play out in this situation. That is what I am interested in, so that is what I muse on. I'll probably touch on class, gender and other social issues as well as occasionally having personal moments (pity parties, I got a right!) I'll get to put all that theory into praxis again. and I will write my posts before I log on...I'm seeing other people are finding my blog, please bear with the fact that I also use this site to communicate with my friends. If you would please consider the quasi-personal nature of what I may be posting here I would appreciate it. Translation...don't scare me by sending weird letters to me or my parents in my post office box, we've been through enough.
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So, not sure if it is good news or bad news that you have attracted a lot of blog spam... from what I have seen you can require commenters to put in a special code, that detracts from spammers.
On another note, I appreciate the updates. I don't think you need to be apologetic in the least about the ranting, emoting or pity parties. You feel like you feel.
On the racial note, you are by no means the only person who feels this way. You would probably be super surprised how many white Americans have called BUSH and his administration, his personal slave, Condi, notwithstanding, on the bullshit. It is fairly clear to many of us that while our president was on vacation thousands of poor and black, mostly incidentally, people died. DIED. Anyway, my rant is done for now.
Wish I could do more...you know... someone crossed post your job lead request to the Brown Ivy listserv today. I hope you hear something.
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