Posted by
Rogue Historian on Saturday, September 02, 2006 8:54:38 AM
Upon revisiting my post "Hurricane Whitey," I find myself offending me. There are two reasons that I am offended, one reasonable, one not. The first is that I seem to be minimizing the suffering caused by Katrina- that is, I am politicizing suffering. The second is that I seem to be mocking slavery. Putting a "negro spiritual" in the mouth of Hillary Clinton and the media is borderline distasteful. I do believe that slavery was evil and that mocking the suffering caused by it is wrong. So I didn't intend to mock suffering. And for this inference I apologize, to myself. But, as a marginally intelligent reader, I should be able to distinguish satire from intentional disregard, so I hold myself responsible. As for politicizing Katrina: it is utterly distasteful to use a natural disaster as a political weapon. I should be offended. We all should.