http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051207/...trina_congress
WASHINGTON - Black survivors of Hurricane Katrina said Tuesday that racism contributed to the slow disaster response, at times likening themselves in emotional congressional testimony to victims of genocide and the Holocaust.
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The comparison is inappropriate, according to Rep. Jeff Miller (news, bio, voting record), R-Fla.
"Not a single person was marched into a gas chamber and killed," Miller told the survivors.
"They died from abject neglect," retorted community activist Leah Hodges. "We left body bags behind."
What do you guys think about the residents comparing their tragedy to being hauled into concentration camps? I don't think people should criticize the comparison, as some did on the article, if they were not there themselves to bear witness to the response and how the residents were treated first hand. What particulalry ticked me off was all the congressmen just out-right dismissing the accounts made by the residents of THEIR experiences! Who are they to tell them they're descriptions and comparisons were inappropriate?
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