If You’re Black, Stay Back
Sep 2nd, 2005 at 9:36 am by Susie
More from Will on how New Orleans city officials made it clear to the poor that in the event of a major hurricane, “You’re on your own.”
UPDATE: My buddy Karl shares something painful from his past for the benefit of the “It’s your won fault, you should have left” crowd.




That’s one of the first things I thought when it hit: it’s just before payday. The end of the month, just before the checks arrive.
Rice is out at the theater, and buying shoes. Cheney is somewhere in Wyoming, but then again he’s so willfully clueless that he wore casual snow clothes to an Auschwitz memorial. W is strumming a guitar. I used to wonder why none of them at least has staff members around them to tell them how normal human beings would react, but I’m getting it that they see no need for it, because they don’t care. They don’t even care enough to fake it.