The authors Glen Ford and Peter Gamble make an excellent point. Many of us have watched the disenfranchisement of African Americans in Katrina stricken areas, and sadly it continues, as they now lose their voting rights as well.
This Saturday’s elections in New Orleans represent yet another element of the vast crime committed against Black America. With as many as 300,000 residents, overwhelmingly African American, strewn about the country in government-engineered exile, the elections are an insult to the very idea of democracy, and to the dignity of all Black people.
This farcical exercise in faux democracy will no doubt be followed by corporate media declarations that New Orleans is returning to “normalcy” – the same term that the media bandied about when the city held a shrunken Mardi Gras, in February.
Apparently, Bush and Co., the crime family, have found the perfect way to totally eliminate New Orleans so that they can turn it into a Disneyesque version of New Orleans...white, clean, homogenous and made in their own right-wing image. This is a national tragedy, and a horrible precedent. What will be the next community that they remake in their white-washed image?
It was heartening to read that some Katrina survivors have become more political, and that they may be many new Fanny Lou Hamer's out there, working for change. I know I hope so. Perhaps what will develop with be a Black Caucus with great power and a big, big voice. I hope so. Count me in to help!
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