Pictures From The Gulf Coast

August 29th, 2007

First, If anyone is looking the Blogging for Justice, Jena 6 post - that was initially going to be today, but it’s tomorrow.

I thought I’d give you guys some sites from my trip down to the Gulf Coast last month. The story on my observations can be seen at Katrina: Nearly Two Years Later.

I have a lot more pics from New Orleans, but they’re not on CD yet. Maybe, though I doubt it; I can have them for you Friday afternoon.

Hard Rock Cafe Boloxi
Hard Rock Cafe and Casion in Boloxi MS

Family House
This is our Family House in Ocean Springs Mississippi that my great-grandad built about 55 years ago. It weathered a bit of Katrina damage, but is still standing strong after all these decades. I slept there for a couple of nights while on this trip after all. Thanks Sharita(sp)!

Rescue Markings
This is a home with the rescue worker markings still on it two years later; marking how many people were found dead in the home. There were many houses still with these markings in New Orleans, especially out East.

House Ripped Front
Speaks for itself - New Orleans

Typical
This was a pretty typical scene.

Pile of Debris
You can see the pile of debri on the street. According to my cousin this was very wide spread back in Nov of ‘06 when he had last been there before this, but we didn’t see much of it last month.

Ripped Store Front
Sorry this one is so big, but when I made it smaller you couldn’t see the full impact.

This is a combo of two screen shots of reporting during the week of the rescue that you might remember. It shows another of the disparities and deferences in treatmeant I talked about in todays earlier article. Here it is the disparities in media reporting - clearly racist reporting. Black people are looters and white people “find” stuff that doesn’t belong to them.
Looting vs Finding
This one you also would not have been albe to read the text in the smaller version.

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