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Friday, February 5, 2010

Lil Wayne Drops A Bomb…

While Lil Wayne was addressing the media about his shock at being asked to join the “We Are The World” re-do, he decided to drop a lil bomb of his own by comparing Haiti’s crisis to the aftermath of Katrina.

Take a look.

So, what’s your call? Is he right to compare the two? Is this gonna start a shytstorm?

Labels: Haiti, hurricane katrina, Lil Wayne, new orleans, What's your call?

3 Comments:

At Friday, February 5, 2010 at 4:47:00 PM EST , melafela said...: I think he has the right to say it...and he has a opint.

The thing is his point actually touches on a much deeper and important issue issue. One that the sooner we see the better off we'd be in the long run. As a person from that part of the Americas known as the Caribbean ) 150 miles from Haiti I can see where he's coming from.

The point that shouldn't be missed is the similarities.This is the perfect time to recognize, why having a shared history of discrimination can put you in a vulnerable position when a natural disaster strikes. Without digging too deep.. anyone willing to look at even these two areas, will see the irony .Both were originally under the colonial rule of the French, with people actually with similar ethnic orgins,both with a dramatic slave legacy then both being marginalized, and ignored , especially the former slave areas. There are places in New Orleans which are as underdeveloped as some places in Port Au Prince.

Alas both appear similar when disaster strikes. When the diapora wakes up we can see what is so blatantly obvious. people of African descent only get assitance in the reactionary sense.. no one is interested in infrastructure. If a natural disaster hit NYC which ehtnicities will find themselves most vulnerable ? in Miami ? D.C ? Chicago ? L.A. ?

Sadly this will probably end up being another "I'm American" discussion... enough to start a little inter plantation battle.
Kinda like Ice Cube's "You wanna free africa, I stare at yuh
Cuz we ain’t got it too good in america" . The truth is Katrina just goes to show you .. that the mainstream doesn't see it like that.. whether it's Haiti, 7th Ward Lousina, North Philly, Kingston Jamaica, Johannesburg, Monrovia, Mogadishu or South Central .. the approach is the same if the people are perceived to be the same.
At Friday, February 5, 2010 at 4:56:00 PM EST , Jem said...: Excellent points, Melafela. I agree completely.
At Friday, February 5, 2010 at 5:46:00 PM EST , Reggie said...: Of course he has the unqualified right to voice his opinion, right or wrong.

Right after I graduated from college, I moved into the New Orleans area and it was a beautiful place. There was definitely poverty there; but there was a certain dignity and uniqueness to the local folk. Sure there was crime, but there were happy festive people there. I couldn't imagine Mardi Gras existing anywhere else in the country on the scale and scope it exists in 'Nawlins. I left in 1998 to pursue an employment opportunity in New Jersey...and now I live in South Carolina.

I will say that there are no other people in this country, like the local people in New Orleans. They love to party and they love to eat. Many of the beautiful places that I knew when I lived there are gone today. I was there, just last year attending a Saints football game and I was amazed that so much of the city had not been rebuilt. I was amazed at the numbers of boarded up homes and businesses that may never come back.

Yes, Haiti and New Orleans have a few things in common; but there is one glaring fact. One disaster took place in what is basically a third world nation and the other, in the wealthiest, most prosperous country in the history of human civilization.

One of these natural disasters is appalling, the other pathetic.

In a time when so many of our politicians brag about cutting taxes and encourage the prosecution of wars that cost tens of billions of dollars a month.........what happened in New Orleans and continues to happen, should be considered to be a national shame. That city deserved better than it got.

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