Please don’t let this die
This is a flash cartoon (for those of you no dial-up or with older browsers): starts out funny and ends not so funny
I know that this is exhausting. I know that it’s emotionally drainingn to hear over and over and over again about the needless loss on the Gulf Coast. I know that — like me — you wish you could pull the covers up over your head. But we can’t. You don’t have to agree with me that this is an ugly portrait of our nation’s deep-rooted racism and classism; you might simply believe that our greed got the best of us. It doesn’t matter to me (just yet) if you can agree with me that we must hold the administration responsible for their ineptitude.
Please, please, please keep giving what you can give and please, please, please sign the petition at moveon.org. Write your representative, write your senators.
Whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, Green Party of straight-up, hard-core anarchist this is something we can all agree on: Someone made a mistake. We might not be pointing our fingers in the same direction but at this point I don’t give a damn. Just make sure that our indignation doesn’t recede with the water. Heads. Must. Roll.
Mark Fiore rules. And I don’t remember who to attribute this to, but “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.”
Thanks for keeping at it.
Viv, a reader
This can not be forgotten.
Keep it up Dawn.
Not to diminish the scope of the disaster, but why exactly must it always be that “someone made a mistake” and that “heads must roll”? Are you saying that anytime anyone dies or property is damaged by a natural disaster (or a terrorist attack, for that matter), there must be someone to blame? In this case I have no doubt there will be plenty of blame to pass around; hindsight is a wonderful thing, especially for us armchair quarterbacks who weren’t in a position to have to make a decision based on the information available at the time. My view is a bit different, however–let’s just chill out a bit, wait for the water to recede and the dust to settle, figure out how to help the victims, and then–with a better grasp of the big picture available to us–figure out if things could and should have been done differently. Knee-jerk reactions on both sides of the political spectrum have, quite frankly, sickened me. So much political grandstanding and opportunism, so little productive action.