Did any one watch the first half of When the Levees Broke? What did you think?

Question

It came on HBO last night.

Answer 1

I sure did and it touched my heart. Once again. I can't believe that all that BS happened in America. How could the government let this happen. The President was waiting to see what the Governour was going to do. That was BS. While people were dying they were busy dealing with politics. This country has turned into something else. Whenever there is a disaster somewhere else our government is there. Then when we have a catastrophe where were they? Giving excuses that there was miscommunication. BS, if I knew about it the day it happened, then they knew also. They were too busy spending all the money on the terrorist war and bringing democracy to other people, than taking care of its own. It just sucks how this was handled. Not to mention that the leader of FEMA was a friend of Bush's and had absolutley no experience in dealing with something like this was some BS also. So the way this was handled I see how Bush really feels about his country. Just like Kanye West had said and Juvenile's song Get your hustle on. After five days of no water and no food, they finally come to the rescue. That sucks. I bet that if it happened in Hollywood, New York, or Washington D.C. they would have been on the ball day one, actually when they first heard about the storm and the mandatory evacuation, this would have never happened. Its like the government was oblivious to the whole situation or because the government was so screwed up, they didn't know what was going on. Hello Mr. President are you there did you hear that there was a Hurricane that hit the gulf coast? Did you hear that they have no water, no way to evacuate, no food, no where to go? Oh, you were busy off in another country and they don't have phones there? Or how about this excuse Air Force One did not have any gas. After all the economy is suffering from the gas prices now so maybe you did not have any funds to put gas in your jet. I can't wait to watch Act 3 and 4 tonight.
Would this have happened if Gore was in office? Too bad we couldn't keep Bill Clinton. Why do bad things keep happening in September?

Answer 2

I caught it last night. It was pretty eye opening. It is so hard not to figure out what happened without politicians throwing their 2 cents into it. The only things that I can really believe are the accounts that I heard from the people that were actually there. I have to say that it was pretty hard to watch that documentary last night, especially at the end where they were showing the dead bodies. It just put an awful taste in my mouth. Especially knowing that our government is not prepared and able to make quick decisions when it comes to its own people's aid. Yeah, we can go set other countries straight, but can't take care of it's own in the time of need? Where's the basis?

Answer 3

I don't care to listen to anything Spike "reverse racist" Lee has to say in his film. NOLA blacks were NOT bussed off to Texas and other states as part of an evil racist plot to rid the city of them. Mayor Ray Nagin, himself African American, knew lives were at risk for their homes were going under water---fast. The shelters housing them could not last long; they had to go somewhere.

And furthermore, post-Katrina Louisiana CAN NOT rebuild the housing projects--they simply don't have the $$$$ to do that....and given the wildly stratospheric black on black drug related murder rate NOLA grew world famous for---Louisiana shouldn't have to be called to rebuild free housing for these "people".

And skin color doesn't determine how well governments on the state or Federal level are run, either. Doubts clearly exist that if a TOTALLY AFRICAN AMERICAN empowered government were met with the same Katrina related challenges, they would've done far better than what was done. Quite simply: no one expected Katrina to happen.

Lee would've lent himself more credibility if he filmed people with conspiracy theories UFOs with pink ray beams shot out the levees moments before the storm than the thrown off ideas from blacks that the levees were blown up with explosives by white racists.

Lee intentionally cut out the outpouring from people--espicially whites--who risked THEIR lives helping scores and hundreds more of black people who lived for days on house roofs--where many of these rescuers were shot at by rifle weilding Mad Dog drunks and crackheads high on the stuff. Lee didn't bother to show NOLA police video of blacks in a looting melee, running out with wide screen plasma TV sets and computers; that would defeat his TRUE purpose: to fan flames of racial hatred in the hearts of blacks world-wide.

Lee's enjoyment of The First Amendment doesn't make him any wiser.

Answer 4

I liked the show, it was very revealing. However, Spike didn't mention the helicopters that tried to drop food, water and medicine to the people at the Superdome and Convention Center but were met with gunfire. His reporting isn't 100% accurate.

Answer 5

It's SAD, depressing and wrong how our country has degraded itself over the past 6 years.

We can go over to different countries and pledge aid in the millions, but AMERICANS cannot get a food drop or water ?

We are really living in our last days.... GOD HELP US!

Answer 6

no i missed it but the secondhalf is coming on tonight..bottom line is that the government doesnt give a **** if its people sink or swim...we are so into other countries problems we dont even know where to begin with our own

Answer 7

nope