Hip-hop activist Rosa Clemente ventured out to New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina. Her first of many reports is now featured on Davey D’s web site.
With no obligations to an editor, ratings or stock holders, Clemente dug deep into the heart of the Crescent City, into territory many news cameras have yet to go.
The report tackles a variety of subjects, including treatment of both blacks and whites by the police and military. Clemente also interviewed several citizens who remain in the city.
“We came up on the Convention Center, and after all the clean up, it still looked like a living hell, the smell of dead bodies was overwhelming,”Clemente writes in her report. “What was more crazy… is that there were plenty of hotels, The Marriot, The Wyndham, The Holiday Inn, that were completely habitable, if this [expletive] Supreme Court can take my house on some eminent domain [expletive], why didn’t they declare eminent domain and take corporate property for the public good?”
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