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Why is the sky blue, why is water wet · by Rafi Kam
From Mother Jones, 25 Questions in the aftermath of Katrina.
13. Why were patients at private hospitals like Tulane evacuated by helicopter while their counterparts at the Charity Hospital were left to suffer and die?
14. Was the failure to adequately stock food, water, potable toilets, cots, and medicine at the Louisiana Superdome a deliberate decision—as many believe—to force poorer residents to leave the city?
15. The French Quarter has one of the highest densities of restaurants in the nation. Once the acute shortages of food and water at the Superdome and the Convention Center were known, why didn’t officials requisition supplies from hotels and restaurants located just a few blocks away? (As it happened, vast quantities of food were simply left to spoil.)
What happened to the country’s imaginative moment of clarity? The same thing that happens with all moments – they pass.
Deep-down we (all of us) may already know the muddy answer to these 25 questions. They still need to be asked and answers still need to be demanded. Even if all we get back is bullshit, that itself is valuable. Let people focus on the questions and scrutinize the answers.
But instead we’re back to business as usual, aren’t we?
Link courtesy of activist/writer Jeff Chang’s blog.
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