Spike Lee's Requiem For New Orleans

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Anyone see it?

Painful to see all the suffering.

Almost as painful to see so many blaming so many others for the problems (pre and post Katrina) of New Orleans.
 
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I saw tonight's 2 hours. Perhaps last night was the night they had something good to say about any one or thing that helped.
 
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Last night, Acts 1 and 2 I guess it was, was more focused on the "We're black, so they ignored us" gripe.
 
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tidwell said:
Last night, Acts 1 and 2 I guess it was, was more focused on the "We're black, so they ignored us" gripe.
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I was wondering where that was tonight...

Tonight it was FEMA, W., Corp of Engineers, task forces that searched homes, etc. Also general complaining about how other southern cities have economic well being (e.g. Memphis has FedEx, Charlotte has banking, Atlanta has Home Depot). What that has to do with Katrina I have no freakin' idea.
 
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My favorite part from last night was when they interviewed a white couple who was turned away by armed officials at some bridge when they were trying to get across and get to the Convention Center. After that, they interviewed several black people who met the same resistance and claimed that they were turned away because they were black and thought to be thugs.
 
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I think what Spike Lee did was very well done in MOST instances, not all.

Whenever Spike would bring up something racial, he seemed to then have the other side's version of events...such as how the black woman said New Orleans intentionally blew up the levees in 1965 during Betsy. Next segment was a previous Mayor in New Orleans saying that was never proven and just an urban myth.

I think the problem with Spike Lee's film is that it continues the perception that A) Everyone who suffered was just about black, B) Everyone in New Orleans blames people for no other reason other then we want to blame someone, C) Lakeview was never destroyed
 
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U-T said:
I think what Spike Lee did was very well done in MOST instances, not all.

Whenever Spike would bring up something racial, he seemed to then have the other side's version of events...such as how the black woman said New Orleans intentionally blew up the levees in 1965 during Betsy. Next segment was a previous Mayor in New Orleans saying that was never proven and just an urban myth.

I think the problem with Spike Lee's film is that it continues the perception that A) Everyone who suffered was just about black, B) Everyone in New Orleans blames people for no other reason other then we want to blame someone, C) Lakeview was never destroyed
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It was done very well. I was surprised. I think I went into it expecting a very racial point of view and it was not. No, it didnt talk about Lakeview. That was about the only complaint. Oh, and that they could have found better "white" people to interview. Why did they find a drunk woman from Ycloskey!!!!!!!! Sad.
 
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U-T said:
I think the problem with Spike Lee's film is that it continues the perception that A) Everyone who suffered was just about black, B) Everyone in New Orleans blames people for no other reason other then we want to blame someone, C) Lakeview was never destroyed
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I would agree with that.
 
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la.lovesorange said:
It was done very well. I was surprised. I think I went into it expecting a very racial point of view and it was not. No, it didnt talk about Lakeview. That was about the only complaint. Oh, and that they could have found better "white" people to interview. Why did they find a drunk woman from Ycloskey!!!!!!!! Sad.
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Now you know how black people feel when the local news cast finds the one guy in the area with gold teeth, dreads and a screaming baby hanging off his shoulder.

:yes:
 
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tidwell said:
My favorite part from last night was when they interviewed a white couple who was turned away by armed officials at some bridge when they were trying to get across and get to the Convention Center. After that, they interviewed several black people who met the same resistance and claimed that they were turned away because they were black and thought to be thugs.
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I'm more concerned about the fact that they WERE turned around and not allowed to enter the city. They may have very well thought they were denied entry due to the color of their skin. I can't help but imagine the level of desperation they must've felt only to be shunned away at gunpoint.
 
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Crew said:
I'm more concerned about the fact that they WERE turned around and not allowed to enter the city. They may have very well thought they were denied entry due to the color of their skin. I can't help but imagine the level of desperation they must've felt only to be shunned away at gunpoint.
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Ya think?

For those that haven't seen this, HBO aired all 4 hours of it together tonight starting at 7 running through 11. It starts again at 10PM CST on HBO West.
 
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To this day, I am honestly...blown away by what the media hs done to Katrina and New Orleans.

Because of the media, everyone seen as suffering from Katrina is looked upon as black, uneducated, and welfare recieving.

It's pathetic.

I know plenty of people who lost their homes, jobs, and family members. They didn't beg FEMA for money or blame Bush, ext...on the storm.

Whenever they raise concerns about the levees, FEMA, or anything else....they are looked upon as Bush-blaming, wants-everything-for-free, aholes.

Newsflash:
Not many blame Bush for the levees
Many of the people who suffered didn't request insane amounts of cash from FEMA
The Ghetto 9th Ward morons make up the worst of the city
 
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emainvol said:
lighten up, generalizations and stereotypes are bad things you know.
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Don't think anything I said was a generalization or stereotype. Just the facts.

You have yet to see many Lakeview residents on any AP article about taking advantage of FEMA and their payouts. If I read one more story about some people living in rich Hotels in NY for free or living in Hilton Hotels in Miami for free AND complaining that they can't pay because of Katrina one year later, I may just be forced to bitch some more and do nothing.
 
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emainvol said:
you seemed to be generalizing that everyone in the 9th ward are the worst of the city.
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That isn't a generalization. That is without doubt a fact. Ever visited the Desire Housing projects? There is a reason that every Christmas WWL TV does a Christmas song as a joke and it has a phrase about visiting the 9th Ward when wanting to get robbed. From 1999 to 2004, the homicide rate again increased. New Orleans had the highest murder rate of any major American city in 2002 (53.3 per 100000 people)...want to know where the high, high, HIGH majority of crimes occured?

I live down here. There is a reason it is one of the worst areas in the country, period.
 
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