c'mon

it's the one year anniversary of hurricane katrina making landfall. obviously it was a devastating event that destroyed lives and misplaced an enormous amount of people. it is truly something sad and awful. right now on hbo, spike lee's when the levees broke: a requiem in four acts is showing. i won't go into the fact that i think spike lee is a pathetic filmmaker who has yet to produce anything really worthwhile. this new documentary is less of a commentary on the devastation of katrina and more of an attack on white america and the government. this is a sensitive issue and it's nearly impossible to say anything negative about something like this without being a heartless jerk. however, i think lee's film is senseless, irrational channeled anger. i watched a few minutes that focused on where the people of new orleans ended up. it was clip after clip of former n. o. citizens talking about where all they'd been since katrina hit. their voices, along with the commentary by others, was filled with animosity at having been flown and bused far from home. one individual called it a type of slavery, akin to the auction block, selling the black citizens of n. o. to other places. while i was watching i was just thinking how everyone speaking had a roof over their head. they had food. they had clothes. their needs were taken care of. yet that wasn't enough. they wanted more. none of the film that i watched expressed gratitude to all of the aid that was sent to n.o. nothing about the volunteers, the charitable organizations, the financial contributions from around the country. also, where are the documentaries about mississippi? they're still devastated as well. mississppi was actually hit worse. why are they allowed to go unnoticed? for that matter, does anyone at all care about pensacola? the residents of pensacola still don't have all of their houses repaired either. they were hit two years ago. no one cares, no one blames the govt. for that.