• acetanilide@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It’s ridiculous how much rebuilding takes, at least in the US, and how much racism and classism plays into it.

    I went to NOLA like 5 years after Hurricane Katrina and most of the houses I saw in “certain” (poor) neighborhoods still had the spray paint on them from first responders. Also one of the (predominantly black) universities there I don’t think had fully rebuilt either at that point while the other (predominantly white) university had just gotten a new sports field.

    I just can’t imagine being in a war torn place where much of the world hardly acknowledges you as a human and trying to rebuild your community.

    It just blows my mind every day the cruelty in this world - and the fact that there are so many genocides happening simultaneously. I still remember when I was a small child finding out that WW2 did not hold the only genocide the world had ever or would ever see. I still can’t quite wrap my head around it.

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      5 months ago

      For me it was rodney king, figured that shit belonged back in the 1800s and we weren’t a bunch of fucking barbarians any more. It’s hard, coming from what should be, into what is.