Katrina was so bad my racist conservative grandfather turned against Bush and stopped voting entirely because he couldn't bring himself to vote for anything remotely left-leaning but he was done with the Republicans for the rest of his life. He was that kind of nefarious racist where he wasn't really openly racist, but he was privately racist, and had shitty opinions about minorities but was friends with some and considered them the exception. Real shitty stuff. When I heard that Malcolm X clip of him talking about the metaphorical "knife" in the backs of POC in the USA I instantly thought of him.
And still somehow he still had some humanity percolating inside his skull in his twilight hours to see what happened in New Orleans and actually blame the ones in charge.
I'm not saying this because its some kind of redemption act on his old ass. I'm saying that's how bad it was.
Hurricane Katrina radicalized me to the left, and the Obama Presidency made me a communist.
Katrina was so bad my racist conservative grandfather turned against Bush and stopped voting entirely because he couldn't bring himself to vote for anything remotely left-leaning but he was done with the Republicans for the rest of his life. He was that kind of nefarious racist where he wasn't really openly racist, but he was privately racist, and had shitty opinions about minorities but was friends with some and considered them the exception. Real shitty stuff. When I heard that Malcolm X clip of him talking about the metaphorical "knife" in the backs of POC in the USA I instantly thought of him.
And still somehow he still had some humanity percolating inside his skull in his twilight hours to see what happened in New Orleans and actually blame the ones in charge.
I'm not saying this because its some kind of redemption act on his old ass. I'm saying that's how bad it was.