Originally Posted By Lisann22 I know you will all probably have opinions about Spike Lee. However, the reviews for this program have so far been excellent. Might want to give it a watch tonight and tomorrow night on HBO. <a href="http://www.comcast.net/tv/index.jsp?cat=TELEVISION&fn=/2006/08/21/460190.html" target="_blank">http://www.comcast.net/tv/inde x.jsp?cat=TELEVISION&fn=/2006/08/21/460190.html</a> Spike Lee's Katrina Film Will Air on HBO By Associated Press 18 minutes ago NEW YORK - One of the most poignant interviews in the Hurricane Katrina documentary "When the Levees Broke" is given by a man who lost his mother in the aftermath of the storm, filmmaker Spike Lee said Sunday. In the interview, Herbert Freeman recalls his mother's death at New Orleans Convention Center and the moment he had to leave her body there as he and other evacuees were taken out of the city. "Before he got on a bus _ he had a piece of paper, wrote his name, his cell number and her name and placed the paper between her fingers, her body," Lee said on ABC's "This Week." "How could this happen, in the _ supposedly _ the wealthiest, mightiest country in the world? Really, that's the question," Lee said. The four-hour film, divided into four acts, examines the government's response to Katrina. The first two parts debut Monday on HBO and the remaining acts will be shown Tuesday. Lee's film "Do the Right Thing" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1989. His documentary "4 Little Girls" was nominated for the Best Feature Documentary Academy Award in 1997.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 <a href="http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/whentheleveesbroke/?ntrack_para1=feat_main_text" target="_blank">http://www.hbo.com/docs/progra ms/whentheleveesbroke/?ntrack_para1=feat_main_text</a> HBO description of show.
Originally Posted By mele I'm not sure I can handle this show. The other day I made the mistake of watching a few minutes of a show about the rise and fall of the Twin Towers. Within a few minutes I started sobbing and cried for at least 10 minutes. I've avoided 9/11 stuff since the first anniversary and now it's clear that it's still too soon. I set my cable box to record the HD showing of the show. I'm sure I'll watch it but it might take awhile. I also found 4 different Katrina related programs OnDemand early this morning. I watched one but was too distracted by my kids to really see it. I would like to watch them but I'm not sure.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy If Spike doesn't put most of the blame on Nagin the mayor and the Blanco the Govenor ( both democrats ) we will know his little show is garbage.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 he won't - and no different than any other Hollywood tyoe-- his is one opinion and one opinion only - counts for no more than anyone elses. He has no first hand knowledge- he wasn;t there.. and heck, he's a Knick fan..so what does that say about him
Originally Posted By ecdc "he won't - and no different than any other Hollywood tyoe-- his is one opinion and one opinion only - counts for no more than anyone elses. He has no first hand knowledge- he wasn;t there.." Good to see no one is judging the film until they actually see it...
Originally Posted By peeaanuut the problem with Lee is that he has an agenda. He has always had an agenda. It is an anti-white all black agenda. Everything he has ever done has been geared this way. Not worth watching when his history shows he will NOT show the truth, he will only show what fits his agenda.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 No kidding ecdc. 25th hour was an all black/anti-white agenda? Aye yi yi!
Originally Posted By mele Thanks for letting us know that this was on, Lisa. We watched it. I don't think we agreed with everything but it was still quite powerful. Anybody else watch? I have lots of conflicted emotions and thoughts.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip If you don't like the truth, blame it on the Blacks or the Democrats. Like we've never seen THAT happen before. Frankly, who cares? The Bushroids will soon find out that not everyone is drinking the Kool-Aid. The moderates of America, MANY of them Democrats and Blacks, will have their say. And a peace will come upon the land unlike anything we have seen since the people of America last selected the incomparable William Jefferson Clinton as their leader.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Here are some interesting comments... <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Nagin_Black_Journalists.html" target="_blank">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/ national/1110AP_Nagin_Black_Journalists.html</a> >>New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Friday blamed racism and government bureaucracy for hamstringing his city's ability to weather Hurricane Katrina and recover from the disaster that struck the Gulf Coast nearly a year ago. In remarks to the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, Nagin said the hurricane "exposed the soft underbelly of America as it relates to dealing with race and class." "And I, to this day, believe that if that would have happened in Orange County, California, if that would have happened in South Beach, Miami, it would have been a different response," Nagin said. New Orleans was 60 percent black before Katrina struck Aug. 29. Early this year the mayor called on fellow blacks to again make New Orleans a "chocolate" city, but he later apologized. On Friday, Nagin condemned federal regulations that discourage rebuilding in the largely black and low-lying Ninth Ward. While tens of billions of dollars in federal aid have flowed to Louisiana and other states devastated by Katrina, much of it has gone to developers and contractors, Nagin said. "Very little of those dollars have gotten to the local governments or to the people themselves," Nagin said. Katrina dispersed three-quarters of New Orleans' pre-hurricane population of about 460,000 people, and today it's a city of about 250,000. Nagin suggested that Louisiana and federal officials would prefer the city remain smaller. He said the city is struggling to deliver services and rebuild with a quarter of its former municipal budget. The federal and state aid the city has received is inadequate and comes with too many rules, he said. "We are being strangled, and they're using the money to set local policies to try to take control of the city to do things that they had in mind all along, and that's to shrink the footprint, get a bunch of developers in the city, and try to do things in a different way," Nagin said. "We're not going to let that happen. They're going to give us our money, and we're going to rebuild this city."<<
Originally Posted By Darkbeer And this.... <a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/38268" target="_blank">http://www.nysun.com/article/3 8268</a> >>The New Orleans police chief during Hurricane Katrina, Eddie Compass, says he unnecessarily "heightened people's fears" by repeating unconfirmed reports of out-of-control crime in the city during the aftermath of the storm, adding to the confusion caused by the disaster and potentially hampering rescue efforts. "There were reports of rapes and children being raped. And I even got one report … that my daughter was raped," Mr. Compass says in the Spike Lee documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," scheduled to air on HBO tonight. Mr. Compass resigned from his post as New Orleans police superintendent in September 2005. "In hindsight, I guess I heightened people's fears by me being the superintendent of police, reporting these things that were reported to me," Mr. Compass said of the unverified accounts of crime and disorder in flooded New Orleans that he repeated to the press and on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." "But there was really no way for me to check definitively. So instead I erred on the side of caution. I didn't want people to think we were trying to cover anything up. So I repeated these things without being substantiated, and it caused a lot of problems," he said. Officials and local commentators have long suggested that the false reports of rampant crime following the hurricane were a reason for the slowness of rescue efforts. With recovery teams and humanitarian aid groups frightened to enter the city, many storm survivors were left stranded on roofs without food and water, in makeshift rafts, and in filthy conditions at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.<<
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Racism and any lack of Federal Government assistance fails to explain the predominance of looting that struck New Orleans immediately after the hurricane. Or "junkies" and "criminals" taking over hospitals in an effort to get drugs. 50% of the police officers never reported to work. We ALL saw the TV news reports of people breaking into stores and walking around the streets of New Orleans with clothing, wide screen TVs, etc etc. Or the Texas homicide rate going up to 17% since the Katrina evacuees moved in. Or the fact that roughly 25% of ALL homicides in Texas involve Katrina evacuees. If Nagin believed that it was a Federal Government failure then why does he now say that the ONLY things we would do differently is to use buses and trains to get the inhabitants out? Something many of us were saying from the get-go. Gosh, legalized gambling, prostitution, rampant unemployment, a population of 68% receiving government assistance. New Orleans was an tradgedy waiting to happen. But you know its ALL the fault of President George Bush and those evil Republicans.....RIGHT!!!! <sarcasm>
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <The moderates of America, MANY of them Democrats and Blacks, will have their say. And a peace will come upon the land unlike anything we have seen since the people of America last selected the incomparable William Jefferson Clinton as their leader< where is the AA of Stitch to peform when I need him.....
Originally Posted By vbdad55 ^^^^^^^^^^ sorry Trippy, but laying it on a little heavy no ? First the moderates ( of which I include myself) actually need a viable candidate and a platform we can support..I have yet to see either, from either party that is even close. cart before the horse...there has to be a reason for people to get on board, I for one am waiting for it also, but where is it ?
Originally Posted By Beaumandy The reality is that Mississippi got hit just as hard as New Orleans, maybe harder, and they are not acting like Nagin and the democrats. They are not blaming the world, errr, Bush. They are simply getting aid, rebuilding and moving on. Same goes for Florida after they have been hit by dozens of hurricanes. This is a black democrat problem and nothing more in this case. The black community should listen to Cosby or even Juan Williams the lib who just wrote a book.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<sorry Trippy, but laying it on a little heavy no ?>> Yeah... I was having a little fun there. I guess I've read too many of Ed's posts lately. ;-)
Originally Posted By peeaanuut <<If you don't like the truth, blame it on the Blacks or the Democrats.>> I resent you implying that about me and demand an apology. You know nothing about me, but make assumptions to fit your agenda. How Beau of you.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom This from Neil Boortz today. <<<THE YEAR AFTER KATRINA In one week, we will be at the one year mark since Hurricane Katrina. Brace yourself for the media coverage...it will be non-stop. You can bet all of the networks will send anchors down to New Orleans to broadcast from the Ninth Ward. Expect to be bombarded with the following: Despite a year and billions of dollars going by, New Orleans is still a mess. The implication is that the American taxpayer is supposed to reconstruct New Orleans into a condition better than it ever was. It's time to face the facts: the only thing that is going to bring back New Orleans is private investment. The levies still aren't fully reconstructed and ready for another Katrina-style hurricane. Who knows if those levies ever really were good enough to withstand a huge hurricane? Doesn't matter ... the state of the levies will be laid on the Bush administration in some manner. There will be no negative words about New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Well, maybe a few ... but remember ..... It's all still George W. Bush's fault. Remember, according to the media and the Democrats, any injustice being committed anywhere in the world is the fault of George W. Bush somehow. In fact, it's already started. On CNN today we see New Orleans Mayor Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin complaining that the Feds haven't sent enough money. And there you have it, that's the mindset. Sitting and waiting for the check to come from the government. Instead of getting out there and hustling in the private sector, there Nagin sits....waiting for more of your money. Nice going, Mr. Mayor. So brace yourself...the Katrina pity party is about to get into full swing. And don't forget the new Spike Lee movie about the levies, which we all know were intentionally blown by Dick Cheney to drown all of the black people in New Orleans.>>>
