U.S.A.!! U.S.A.!! U.S.A.!! GooooOOO TEAM!

I guess it’s been a while since I’ve actually written anything and I guess this seems as good a time as any. The thing is, I’m really not thinking about anything someone else isn’t. Nor can I get away from the horribleness that was Katrina and our government’s appalling lack of readiness and response. It feels as though race and class issues are slapping me in the face, per usual. But, before I travel down that godforsaken road, this is something worth noting.

Okay, to it. I believe this Slate article, while a fine read, used slippery logic, was ill-organized and conflated race and class, to a fault. Let me state this, and I know it’s a radical statement:

Not all blacks are poor and not all poor are black.

Okey doke then. So what does it mean that so many of the people left to find their way out of hell are black? It means that the GOVERNMENT, yeah I said it, THE GOVERNMENT, did not do enough to get people transportation out of city.

Now read this like a cheer at a football game:

Who couldn’t get out of the city?

The Poor!

How’s that spelled?

P-O-O-R!

And why couldn’t they get out?

No money!

How’s that spelled?

B-L-A-C-K!

No. That’s idiotic. That causal relationship was between MONEY and the freedom it granted people to leave, not one’s race and what?? If you want to talk about why it appears that so many blacks are poor, K, let’s chat. But if you want to talk about people left in the city, you need to talk about ability and that ability was granted through financial means and why is that? Because the goddamned government didn’t do its job.

There you go. Have a nice day.