One guy helped a bunch of people stranded on a roof by hiding the black people inside so the helicopter only saw the white people. Helicopters had been passing them by for hours. But when he did that, a helicopter came 15 minutes later.
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I clicked the little heart, but I can hardly say that's a like. We need a button to indicate "I find this every bit as infuriating as you do."
aug 28, 2025, 9:38 pm • 66 1 • view
That was horrible shit.
aug 29, 2025, 2:12 am • 0 0 • view
The hatred, my GOD.
aug 28, 2025, 9:29 pm • 15 1 • view
Oh my god. Did you ever read Zeitoun, or Five Days at Memorial? So many unnecessary tragedies.
aug 28, 2025, 9:27 pm • 8 1 • view
I read Zeitoun in grad school and loved and turns out, the writer distorted a LOT of important details. 🙃
aug 28, 2025, 9:28 pm • 13 0 • view
That’s disappointing 🫤
aug 28, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I definitely recommend Five Days at Memorial as well, and the documentary Big Charity.
aug 28, 2025, 10:45 pm • 1 0 • view
As long as we're recommending horrifying Katrina documentaries, The Right To Be Rescued (about disabled people... not being rescued) is approximately the most devastating way to spend 15 minutes of your life.
aug 29, 2025, 12:41 am • 4 1 • view
You probably know about this? www.propublica.org/article/post...
aug 29, 2025, 12:28 am • 80 20 • view
Watched Katrina from outside of the US and we were all shocked how this supposed super power, first world country treated it's people.
aug 29, 2025, 12:46 am • 3 0 • view
Yepppp. They go into ALL of that and my goodness.
aug 29, 2025, 4:51 am • 33 0 • view
VERY different scenario, but I used to be sent out into the street to hail a cab in NYC by my Black friends. It worked
aug 28, 2025, 9:29 pm • 72 1 • view
Worked in the 1990s, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-z2...
aug 28, 2025, 11:06 pm • 19 0 • view
And I was actually talking about the 90s (back when there were only cabs)
aug 29, 2025, 3:50 am • 4 0 • view
I want to burn many things down.
aug 28, 2025, 9:36 pm • 10 0 • view
Oh my god
aug 28, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
That really is just plain EVIL. 3:O((> Every time I look at America it seems to be worse than the last - I'm glad I don't live there and though there are places I'd like to visit, there is zero chance of my ever risking it (despite being "White British").
aug 28, 2025, 10:06 pm • 7 0 • view
Jesus Christ it’s been 20 years?
aug 28, 2025, 9:29 pm • 15 1 • view
aug 28, 2025, 10:12 pm • 9 0 • view
Lord have mercy.
aug 28, 2025, 9:26 pm • 27 0 • view
I am SPEECHLESS.
aug 28, 2025, 9:27 pm • 25 0 • view
That just struck me in the heart. Jesus. They really left black folks for dead.
aug 28, 2025, 9:28 pm • 35 1 • view
And drove them out of the city by one means or another. The state wanted to ethically cleanse NOLA and that's what they did while the rest of the USA looked on with horror or glee.
aug 29, 2025, 12:20 am • 1 0 • view
More worse than merely "left" them for dead. Bush deployed the mercenary army then called Blackwater (now called Constellis) to "prevent looting." Dozens of accounts (unverified, of course, by authorities) insist Blackwater and the NOPD used Katrina as a chance to "clean up undesiresbles"...
aug 28, 2025, 10:13 pm • 55 5 • view
And he sent them to Iraq where they murdered untold amounts of people alongside the US military. Domestic US evil is always tied to foreign US evil and vice versa
aug 29, 2025, 8:00 am • 1 0 • view
Yep. That fucking company has changed names four or five times since Katrina because they keep committing war crimes. The brutal mercenaries in the first season of Punisher are an obvious satire of Blackwater.
aug 29, 2025, 2:10 pm • 1 0 • view
This is what one of my parents friend's who was an Irish pastor told us. I've always taken it with a big grain of salt because he said someone in the military related it to him, but like I dunno so much of that aftermath was the worst of us.
aug 29, 2025, 12:04 am • 1 0 • view
A now-former friend who served in the Louisiana National Guard claimed to have served there. He not only confirmed what I'd heard about, but told me, "Whatever you've heard, the reality was worse."
aug 29, 2025, 4:04 pm • 1 0 • view
(If we had an edit function here, that would read "Far worse.")
aug 29, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
...(Black and otherwise), whose bodies were then dumped in the swamps or left to float as "casualties of the hurricane." In the documentary, a group of white dudes from the suburb of Algiers brag about shooting Black folks who came across the bridge to escape the floods, "like target practice."
aug 28, 2025, 10:18 pm • 43 4 • view
White vigilantes hunted "looters" (translation: Black and/or homeless people), and I'd seen reports (again, unverified) online at the time about how "They're stacking bodies on trucks like cordwood." It was MUCH worse than simply leaving people to die. youtu.be/Gy0zP4pYkSo?...
aug 28, 2025, 10:21 pm • 38 8 • view
Prisoners were left to drown in cells. Patients were left to die in hospitals and old-age homes. That there was mass murder isn't debatable. The only questions are, WHO murdered, and HOW MANY people did they murder using the disaster as an excuse?
aug 28, 2025, 10:24 pm • 46 6 • view
*sigh* In the documentary When the Levees Broke, directed by Spike Lee, that is. My kingdom for an edit button.
aug 28, 2025, 10:26 pm • 19 1 • view
I'm here just to back up EVERY SINGLE THING you said. No matter how bad people think it was, it was worse. New Orleans was a hunting ground. Cannot believe it's been 20 years already.
aug 28, 2025, 11:45 pm • 50 0 • view
And such (literal) whitewashing after, locally and nationally, even as the very real daily consequences of such a catastrophe unfolded over time in a highly racialized & classed state/region.
aug 28, 2025, 11:48 pm • 25 0 • view
And people wonder how black America became so close and defensive against these kind of talking points because Tell tell me why hurricane Katrina victims were called “refugees” beggars, low class and all kind of stupid shit that they would never do to any anyone else!
aug 29, 2025, 12:16 am • 13 0 • view
I remember that. Horrifying
aug 29, 2025, 12:27 am • 1 0 • view
this is unbelievably depressing.
aug 28, 2025, 9:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Just rotten and evil at every opportunity.
aug 28, 2025, 11:31 pm • 3 0 • view
This part!
aug 28, 2025, 11:18 pm • 2 0 • view
This country, I'm not sure it's salvageable
aug 29, 2025, 12:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Our country is irredeemably racist
aug 28, 2025, 11:21 pm • 4 0 • view
That must have been an amazing coincidence
aug 29, 2025, 8:20 am • 0 0 • view
15 FUCKING MINUTES LATER And the guy knew to do that after watching helicopters help white people on nearby rooftops around his apartment building.
aug 28, 2025, 10:26 pm • 25 0 • view
That shit was crazy.
aug 28, 2025, 9:30 pm • 2 0 • view
They would have the people turned away at the bridge but does that doc also have the people who were turned away at the Navy reserve base at gunpoint?
aug 29, 2025, 8:46 am • 0 0 • view
I remember that the government’s response was absolutely awful and then once in a while, I learn that it was actually even worse than I thought
aug 28, 2025, 9:28 pm • 110 2 • view
📌
aug 29, 2025, 9:51 am • 0 0 • view
Yep.
aug 28, 2025, 9:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Does it mention the classic “looting” vs “finding” photo captions?
aug 29, 2025, 12:29 am • 2 0 • view
Oh my god. Unbearable.
aug 28, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Enraged. Had to pause and take a moment from the doc at this part.
sep 1, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I covered the aftermath from the Houston Astrodome and it really opened my eyes to a lot of evil shit that I had previously not thought possible
aug 28, 2025, 11:43 pm • 57 0 • view
That part pissed me off. It was a very good doc. But once I saw Coogler involved, I knew it would be.
aug 29, 2025, 1:10 am • 3 0 • view
holy fucking shit!!!
aug 28, 2025, 9:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks for solidifying my choice not to watch.
aug 28, 2025, 9:31 pm • 7 0 • view