As I said, I won't post it over there, but I like this juxtaposition better.
Posted on 01/10/2007 9:25:36 AM PST by presidio9
In a juxtaposition of two disasters, an exhibit of dresser drawers salvaged from flooded New Orleans has opened at a pedestrian bridge that overlooks the World Trade Center site.
Artist Jana Napoli collected 700 drawers, many full of sodden, wrecked clothing, from trash heaps. Some 350 now empty drawers are on display at the Liberty Street Bridge, lined up with knobs on top along a 230-foot platform.
"Once you went out and looked at what was going on, it was horrific to see everybody's lives dumped out on the sidewalks," said Napoli, 60, who lives in New Orleans and stayed through Hurricane Katrina with her 92-year-old mother.
"There must have been a million miles of hand-sewn linen," Napoli said. "You couldn't save it. It was like two or three generations of women's work left on street corners."
The show, titled "Floodwall," opened Thursday and will be in New York through Feb. 9. Installations in other cities are being negotiated, said Napoli, who was at the exhibit on Sunday answering questions from puzzled tourists.
Before the 2001 terror attacks, the Liberty Street Bridge connected the trade center to the World Financial Center across the West Side Highway. It affords a direct view of ground zero, now teeming with cranes and construction workers.
Visitors on pilgrimages to the trade center site were surprised to see mementos from Katrina.
"Two different kinds of disasters," said Peter Lonnebjerg of Arhus, Denmark. "But at the end of the day, it means the same thing — death, loss."
The drawers are empty except for what was stuck to the bottoms of some — paper clips, bills.
Accompanying them are moving-message LED signs that repeat snippets from interviews with 12 of the owners of the drawers, including these two:
_"My uncle was on the roof for two days before he was rescued and taken to the convention center."
_"In New Orleans it's normal to live in a house with three generations."
The addresses where the drawers were collected are written on the back of each one.
"This is from Lakeview, where they had 10 feet of water," Napoli said, picking one up. "My old neighborhood."
Napoli said the idea of bringing "Floodwall" to the trade center site came from David Lackey of Whirlwind Creative, a company that plans and designs museum exhibits. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council head Tom Healy agreed, Napoli said, and Brookfield Properties, which operates the World Financial Center, signed on.
It is an attempt to create a moral equivalence between a terrorist mass murder and a natural disaster.
******* disgrace.
As I said, I won't post it over there, but I like this juxtaposition better.
Message: Bush hates black people. Both Katrina and 9/11 are Bush's fault.
Disgusting juxtaposition.
We need a picture of William Jefferson pulling his hundred grand out of his freezer while his National Guard escorts wait outside his home while others are stranded on their roofs.
FEMA won't even return my phone calls, let alone send me a free debit card or two.
I think I'll turn to crime. /sarc off
Bryant Gumbel hates white people. He said as much as an anchor when he said there wasn't much for him to get excited about the Winter Olympics.
The politicians in Louisiana clearly do not care about black people. The poverty was institutionalized. And black politicians were profiting from keeping things as they were.
Got this in email this week:
WEATHER BULLETIN -- Denver - December 2006 - Christmas
Up here, in the "Mile-Hi City", we just recovered from a Historic event---
May I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a
historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that
broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of
motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of
communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.
FYI:
George Bush did not come.
FEMA did nothing.
No one howled for the government.
No one blamed the government.
No one even uttered an expletive on TV.
Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.
Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.
CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5
snowstorm. Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.
No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.
No one looted.
Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.
Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.
No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo
Rivera.
No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.
Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.
The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a
penny.
Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered
it to the snowbound families.
Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.
We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns, even cooked on the Bar-B-Que (once we unburied it).
We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".
We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a
mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes
for 'sittin at home' checks.
Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this
early, we accept that it can happen and understand we have to know how to deal with it ourselves.
"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48
degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."
It does seem that way, at least to me.
I hope this gets passed on.
Maybe SOME people (Like New Orleans and Wash. DC freeloaders) will get the message. The world does Not owe you a living. The Government and Tax $ are not your insurance company. In the West, people help people just because we are neighbors and it is the thing we do. Think about it.
The people of New Orleans could have avoided their fate had they evacuated.
The people in the WTC did not have that opportunity.
Agreed, I hope the "questions" she was answering from "puzzled tourists" were such as : "What the f**k is the MATTER with you, lady???"
If you had actually gone through Katrina, you wouldn't have such a smartass attitude.
I didn't know she was there or I certainly would have made it a point to give her a piece of my mind. The first time I saw it was last Tuesday and the only people there were a handful of annoying tourists, and a clueless security guard. Normally toursits at Ground Zero annoy me, because there is NOTHING, I mean NOTHING to see, and they clog up crowed passages (its a construction/demolition site). But to have them make a point of coming down here, only to get distracted by an irrelevant political message is particularly galling.
Again, I sympathize, but surely you must understand how particularly inappropriate this location is. I'm all for the installation. Just not here.
How many times is this nonsense going to be posted. This false email has been posted over and over again and it is not true. The last time it was posted it was reportedly sent by an emergency worker in North Dakota. If they are going to revive this false email for each disaster to try and make New Orleans and Louisiana look bad the least they could do is change the amount of snow and winds. It's exactly the same. Talk about lazy. Go to www.snopes.com and do a Katrina search if you want to know the truth.
LOL! Which just goes to prove you don't know Kenton! 
Personally, I'd like to see the Katrina victims get on with their lives and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, like people usually do after such tragedies. Because the fact is we ALL went "through Katrina", and we're still going through it more than a year later. I'm just tired of hearing the same people using it as political collateral.
There's not a single place in this country where you aren't subject to inclement weather, whether it's hurricanes, tornadoes, or massive snow storms, like the one the west is digging out of now. Katrina was a big storm. New Orleans was below sea level. Anybody living there does so at their own risk, and I'm just tired of this old drumbeat.
LOL... yer on to me!
My point exactly. My prayers to those digging out, although I must admit, I haven't heard any of them asking others for much of anything.
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