New Language.

I think I’ll start a trend. Instead of referring to the world post 9/11 I’m going to reference everything post-Katrina. Making statements like “Post-Katrina, the issue of race has once again been brought to the forefront,” and “Post-Katrina, I don’t feel as safe… and so on. Talk about stealing the language back from those who would use it to further their own agenda, this trend will be massive.

Of course, unlike the universal understanding, and universal blindness that followed the WTC attacks, this new language will not be one of unity and consolation. It will be one of division and strife. I’m reading that now the “Blame game,” whatever the fuck that means, is being spread in an ever-increasing net now the state and local authorities are being blamed for the lack of coordination and communication. I suppose the fact that there isn’t a clear picture of what actually happened, the spreading of blame and moreover responsibility is prudent. But the fact that the whole thing was a cluster-fuck and the Levee issue has yet to be resolved leads me to believe that yet again, the spin doctors are at work, loose like foxes in the hen house.

Post-Katrina, Bush’s numbers are slipping further into the shitter. Post-Katrina Millions of displaced people are rootless and lost, and Post-Katrina the American public is more divided than ever.

On a more personal note, Post-Katrina I do not feel safe, Post-Katrina I feel that my life is worth less than my white counterparts, Post-Katrina I feel that my financial problems, my love problems and my health problems are unworthy of bitching about because of the fact that I still have something, I still have a roof over my head, I still have a wonderful family an amazing and intelligent wife, and a beautiful and intelligent son. Post-Katrina I trust the government even less and I believe the utter and absolute failure of the trickle down theory is at hand. Post-Katrina, I feel that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few… or the one.