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BlackCryptoKnight
August 29, 2006, 09:32 PM
I'm watching this now on HBO, and I'm just stunned. :confused:
ramesh
August 30, 2006, 06:59 AM
I'm watching this now on HBO, and I'm just stunned. :confused: I didn't see it from the beginning. Watching it, you have to wonder what is really going on in the US Government..........
bernie
August 30, 2006, 08:42 AM
i was brought to tears...even now that i think about it.
i'm kinda lost for words still....
hebrew sista
August 30, 2006, 10:30 AM
the us government dont care about poor black people; i just read an article where even apartments that were not affected by the hurricaine are locked up and they wont let the residents back in, most likely because for years developers have been wanting to get rid of the poor blacks for many years, and Katrina gave them what they wanted.

the us government BITES!
BlackCryptoKnight
August 30, 2006, 06:47 PM
What gets me is that the politicians flip flopped and finger pointed themselves silly while people died. Eeediat ting dat! I really felt it for the poor people whose relatives died right in front of them - some of them while waiting for help to arrive ... :icon_frow
tiffany
August 30, 2006, 08:36 PM
i saw, it,, and i became distraught when thu lady told about her 5 year old daughter drowning,, and also when people gave accounts of how the people would report that they found no dead bodies in a house, but the residents would go home to fine rotting corpses of reltives in the house
nuhsenutten
August 31, 2006, 08:25 AM
neone know when its coming on again........didnt c ne of it
Brownsugar
August 31, 2006, 08:44 AM
And di channel and the name of it would be nice too..thanks:)!
ramesh
August 31, 2006, 09:11 AM
And di channel and the name of it would be nice too..thanks:)!Your wish is my command! ;)
http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_DETAIL=DETAIL&FOCUS_ID=633828
Brownsugar
August 31, 2006, 09:14 AM
Your wish is my command! ;)
http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_DETAIL=DETAIL&FOCUS_ID=633828


:icon_mrgr My hero!!! Thanks hun!http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif
tiffany
August 31, 2006, 09:57 PM
yeah its going on now on HBO
Xenocrates
September 1, 2006, 03:41 PM
What is it with Americans and their morbid obsession with reliving their worst tragedies through film? :eusa_eh:
Brownsugar
September 1, 2006, 04:14 PM
What is it with Americans and their morbid obsession with reliving their worst tragedies through film? :eusa_eh:

Dunno bout yuh nah! But I rather watch and learn. Whats so wrong with it?!
Xenocrates
September 1, 2006, 07:26 PM
Don't you realise the overzealous enthusiasm with which they make every tragic event into a movie? Well I guess if you see nothing obviously odd with that, I suppose there's enough of a demand for it over there to spend money on them reliving disaster.
AngelsKiss
September 1, 2006, 10:25 PM
Well they do it for various reasons:

To make money
To spread propaganda
To educate the masses

I hate some of the films of tragedies they make but at least it should help to educate those that come after us.

BTW I think CNN or some TV is planning to show the 9/11 videos online soon. Whatever for I don't know I certainly don't need to see them to remember the day's events. Probably to help Bush get back on the good side of the American public.
Brownsugar
September 2, 2006, 01:31 PM
Well they do it for various reasons:

To make money
To spread propaganda
To educate the masses

I hate some of the films of tragedies they make but at least it should help to educate those that come after us.

BTW I think CNN or some TV is planning to show the 9/11 videos online soon. Whatever for I don't know I certainly don't need to see them to remember the day's events. Probably to help Bush get back on the good side of the American public.

Not the way recession kicked off! And mos def not with most African Americans!
BlackCryptoKnight
September 2, 2006, 08:19 PM
This particular documentary doesn't do Bush any favours. In the past, events were chronicled orally, or in writing. Today, they get films made about them, and documentaries done about them.
AngelsKiss
September 2, 2006, 10:00 PM
This particular documentary doesn't do Bush any favours.

BCK...Not sure if you are refering to my post :) However, I was talking about the 9/11 film which indeed could get ppl to sympathise with Bush since many still believe that Sadam was in league with Osama.
Brownsugar
September 3, 2006, 01:43 AM
Don't you realise the overzealous enthusiasm with which they make every tragic event into a movie? Well I guess if you see nothing obviously odd with that, I suppose there's enough of a demand for it over there to spend money on them reliving disaster.

Would have went to history class if they showed nuthin but tapes and say do a report! Rather than stickin us with 4 chapters at a time! :eusa_thin Wondered how ah passed?!