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The Katrina scandal: History repeating itself
    #5288129 - 02/11/06 08:53 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

From Wikipedia:


The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in United States history.

As the flood approached New Orleans, Louisiana 30 tons of dynamite were set off on the levee at Caernarvon, Louisiana and sent 250,000 ft?/s (7,000 m?/s) of water pouring through. This prevented New Orleans from experiencing serious damage but destroyed much of the marsh below the city and flooded all of St. Bernard Parish. As it turned out, the destruction of the Caernarvon levee was unnecessary; several major levee breaks well upstream of New Orleans, including one the day after the dynamiting, made it impossible for flood waters seriously to threaten the city.

By August 1927 the flood subsided. During the disaster 700,000 people were displaced, including 330,000 African-Americans who were moved to 154 relief camps. Over 13,000 evacuees near Greenville, Mississippi were gathered from area farms and evacuated to the crest of an unbroken levee, and stranded there for days without food or clean water, while boats arrived to evacuate white women and children. Many African-Americans were detained and forced to labor at gunpoint during flood relief efforts.

Political effects:

Several reports on the poor situation in the refugee camps, including one by the Colored Advisory Commission by Robert Russa Moton, were kept out of the media at the request of Herbert Hoover, with the promise of further reforms for blacks after the presidential election. When he failed to keep the promise, Moton and other influential African-Americans helped to shift the allegiance of black Americans from the Republican party to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democrats.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927


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Re: The Katrina scandal: History repeating itself [Re: exclusive58]
    #5288151 - 02/11/06 09:03 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

So, in short, the politicans at the time decided to put in place a radical plan in order to save New Orleans's regional economy: sacrifice the rural and poor neighborhood in the south of the city by blowing up their levees and thus save the rich white neighborhoods from being overly damaged by the floods.

I think Kanye West wasn't so far from the truth after all, it doesn't seem like mentalities have changed too much since 1927.

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Re: The Katrina scandal: History repeating itself [Re: exclusive58]
    #5288896 - 02/11/06 02:29 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Another interesting parallel is that the President at that time was Herbert Hoover.


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Re: The Katrina scandal: History repeating itself [Re: exclusive58]
    #5289251 - 02/11/06 04:22 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Interesting


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