SB Asks for SO DAMN LITTLE, But My Ass Has a Request

Please watch Spike Lee's follow-up documentary about New Orleans (including the recent catastrophic oil spill), If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise. It's currently showing on HBO, and I imagine it will eventually come out on video. It is amazing. I watched it last night and stayed awake most of the night thinking about it. When I am angry, I usually can't sleep for shit.

I have always been a big fan of Spike--I think because we react to the world in the same way--with anger, especially about injustice. The footage and information in this documentary is just phenomenal. I can't say enough about it. Personally, I think they ought to show it in school, despite the language and footage of the dead.

On a side note, Brad Pitt took some flack for saying that he has had second thoughts about bringing capital punishment back in this film. Some of the press (especially the British press) remarked that maybe Brad was losing his marbles, but I understand what Brad was saying and I agree. As a matter of fact, I felt the same way during eight years of the presidency in this nation. A scaffold would have been too goddamn good for the fuckers.

Personally, I am fucking tired to goddamn death of poor southerners being ass raped (and murdered) by corporate greed. Someone in the documentary asked where our outrage is at at what happened (primarily meaning the BP oil spill). Then, the speaker asked what if this oil spill had occurred in the Hamptons. There sure as fuck would have been outrage then. I guess the primary attitude in this country is: Oh well, since it primarily affects the poor in the south, then whatever. I say fuck that shit. Fuck Washington DC and fuck the oil companies. Personally, I think all of Congress should be ridden out of town on rails.

And I must say that I'm inclined to believe that President Obama should have reacted with WAY MORE outrage to this crisis than he did. His toned down response makes me question whether he's in the pockets of the oil companies, too. I am losing respect for him. I know this is going to piss some of my readers off, but there's a time to be cool and a time for OUTRAGE. I think for once, Obama missed the mark. Outrage was required.

Rant over. Please see the film.

Note: This documentary is not for the squeamish, but grow some balls and watch it. If the good folks of New Orleans lived through it, the least you can do is watch it from the comfortable confines of your living room.