A PAST NOT FACED, A FUTURE FEW ARE PREPARED FOR

So Lydia Howell writes in Walking with the Ghosts of New Orleans. From Dissident Voice.

"To watch the catastrophe unfold in New Orleans was to watch the convergence of a past not faced with a potential future few are prepared for. Seeing the Black people trapped in the Superdome, I glimpsed the horror of the Middle Passage: those ships packed with Africans, wretched with hunger, thirst, disease, terror, on their way to slavery. The people, again, mostly African-Americans, trudging down the empty freeway with the sun beating down reminded me of other forced migrations -- such as Indians on the Trail of Tears. I saw the desperation during the Great Depression (and it's looming repeat as America's economy is auctioned off to the lowest bidder by transnational corporations)."