Today’s Guardian has a powerful piece by Darryl Pinckney about race and the aftermath of Katrina: ‘We are becoming like the countries we criticise and pity, places where the state and the society have less and less to do with each other. We are on our own, but then black people have always known that.’
Monthly Archives: September 2005
Disaster II
The guys over at Sollicitudo Rei Socialis are doing a good job offering a sane religious commentary in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina–there’s been so much disgusting theology bandied about elsewhere to score points for some cause or other. In addition to the Red Cross they suggest you can also donate via Catholic Charities. In …
Disaster
I was writing something on the Laws of Nature but haven’t the heart to post it right now. There is too much loss around. I have a friend in New Orleans which personalises the tragedy unfolding there and, though he is safe, imagining him standing in the scenes I’ve seen on TV brings the horror …