Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Mourning New Orleans

Andrei Codrescu on NPR's All Things Considered this afternoon:

[Codrescu/Mourning]: It's heart breaking watching my beautiful city sink. But I am at a safe distance 90 miles away, and my heartbreak is nothing compared to the suffering of the people still in the city.

...

"We already know who's going to pay for all this -- the poor. They always do. The whole country's garbage flows down the Mississippi to them. Until now, they turned all that waste into song. They took the sins of America onto themselves. But this blues now is just too big.


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