Folks didn’t stop writing or emailing me about New Orleans while I was gone. Damn them!
Blogger buddy, Sriram Gopal, penned a piece for DCist on a recent benefit party held for Al “Carnival Time” Johnson. I will never forget Al singing his favorites at 2005’s Krewe du Vieux ball.
Mike Danahey, winner at Bingo!, writes about ex-Chicagoan Rudy Vorkapic and his experiment in media known as The New Orleans Levee.
Friend and fellow Wisconsin alum, Jenny, takes issue with this Wisconsin Alumni Association article on the lessons learned from Katrina, the flood and the fallout. She retorts, “I don’t think this is correct – the statistics from the St. Gabriel morgue showed that of those who perished in the storm, 51% were black, 41% white, as opposed to a 61% black, 36% white general population in the city. Plus, this doesn’t take into account victims in the out-lying parishes or in Mississippi – the vast majority of whom were white. This article incenses me. Yes, natural disasters are a great reason to focus on the poor and the black, but failing to mention anything else creates the illusion that those were the only people injured! Argh! And, this is being taught to students and distributed to alumni???”
Aren’t the elderly, whether black or white, really the ongoing victims of this catastrophe? Can you imagine getting to the end of your days and going through something like this? A life is tough enough.
