21st Century Trail of Tears- Now Off To The Reservations

[beetbox]

In the last week, we've seen many of the black poor of New Orleans not only left behind in a new Atlantis, but thousands upon thousands of them -- those who didn't die in their wheelchairs, or on highway overpasses, or in the ill-fated convention center, or unattended and forgotten in their homes -- sent off on what looked very much like a new Trail of Tears. Right now, above all, New Orleans and the Mississippi coast, as so many reporters have observed with shock, are simply the Bangladesh of North America (after a disastrous set of monsoons), or a Kinshasa (without the resources).

[knowbody0]

1. they will be caged and rationed

and crowded and guarded. when a fight breaks out it will get msm coverage exagerated.
end of the trail
sigh

[beetbox]

2. Images are starting to filter through

It is undeniable.

'Today I saw 5,000 African-Americans on Highway 10, desperate, perishing, dehydrating, babies crying - it looked like the hold of a slave ship. It's so ugly and obvious. The issue of race as a factor will not go away.'

[shance]

3. Wow. What a good point. Will they ever see Nawlins again?

Or will this piece of land be seized and divided up by those who have the means, and the good insurance policy.

It certainly begs the question.

[bobbieinok]

4. horrific comparison