Via the indispensable Gwen Harlow's rawr, I see White Washing the Black Storm: We are Watching:
Two Houston Law Professors' First Hand Blog Accounts of the Real Treatment of Black Americans in Hurricane Katrina's Aftermath
Sept. 6: Danyel Smith had a lesson before dying, and thoughts on the new great migration.
Cobb offered a meditation on Derbigny Street. Abeni at And Still I Rise greeted Natalee Holloway coverage's end with relief. Laina Dawes at Writing is Fighting weighed in on Katrina and Kanye West. Mahogany Elle wondered if hope floats. Diary of a Peculiar Soul pointed readers to Steve Gilliard's "Letter to Black Conservatives." Trent Fitzgerald of Beats and Rants offered accolades to Charmaine Neville. Responding to Leonard Pitts' column, RBG at If You Don't Understand Yourself said she couldn't have said it better herself. Tragically Deep Thoughts wondered if he was the cynic.
Sept. 7: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast listened to Wynton Marsalis and Cassandra Wilson, and asked "whose blood? whose fields?" Guandu focused on black hair care supplies.Mandrake Society proprietor JW Richard noticed a encouraging Washington Post story about a family reconstituted in Houston. Mark Anthony Neal's New Black Man race-d Katrina and offered Dr. Maurice Wallace's "our tsunami" text. Minister Faust suggested that the moral levee was dry. D.L. Foster had thoughts on ultimate suffering. Natalie Davis considered fingerpointing and nausea. On a lighter note, Laura Swisher wants a new job. Blackfeminism.org's Tiffany B. Brown said Katrina's aftermath was about Bush, not race.
Elsewhere: Chippla has thoughts on Nigerian ethnicity.
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