The apogee of American indifference and contempt for its cities came to a head in New Orleans in 2005, following Hurricane Katrina, a devastating natural disaster that was so terrible, that it prompted offers of international aid from Cuba and Venezuela, so-called "enemies" of the U.S., which offers shamed Congress into appropriating rehabilitative money to an American city--unlike European cities post-WWII--something deliberately not done, as a punitive political measure, since 1968 riots, post-Dr. M. L. King's murder.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
American Apogee
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The apogee of American indifference and contempt for its cities came to a head in New Orleans in 2005, following Hurricane Katrina, a devastating natural disaster that was so terrible, that it prompted offers of international aid from Cuba and Venezuela, so-called "enemies" of the U.S., which offers shamed Congress into appropriating rehabilitative money to an American city--unlike European cities post-WWII--something deliberately not done, as a punitive political measure, since 1968 riots, post-Dr. M. L. King's murder.
The apogee of American indifference and contempt for its cities came to a head in New Orleans in 2005, following Hurricane Katrina, a devastating natural disaster that was so terrible, that it prompted offers of international aid from Cuba and Venezuela, so-called "enemies" of the U.S., which offers shamed Congress into appropriating rehabilitative money to an American city--unlike European cities post-WWII--something deliberately not done, as a punitive political measure, since 1968 riots, post-Dr. M. L. King's murder.