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등록일: 2005/09/05
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뉴올리언즈는 50만 거주 인구에 흑인이 67%를 차지하고, 빈곤도가 타지역의 두배라는 현실은 미국 연방정부의 늑장 대처와 홍수대비 예산삭감등이 공공연하지는 않지만 인종차별적 요소가 내재해 있다는 것을 느끼게 해줍니다. 이라크에 배치한 국가방위군의 3분의 1이 이번에 허리케인이 휩쓸고 간 루이지애나, 미시시피, 플로리다 남부 3주 출신이라니 가난한 흑인들은 전쟁에 내몰리고 자연재해에 방치되는 이중고를 겪고 있는 것입니다. 미국은 이제 다른 나라의 민주주의나 인권을 논할 자격을 상실한 것입니다. 제나라 국민도 제대로 돌보지 않는 부끄러운 나라가 어떻게 다른 나라 인권 자유 민주주의 따위를 간섭한답니까? 허리케인 카트리나는 미국이 철저한 계급 인종으로 나뉜 진실을 자연의 이름으로 알렸다고 해야겠습니다 
At
the end of an unforgettable week, one broadcaster on Friday bitterly
encapsulated the sense of burning shame and anger that many American citizens
are feeling.
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align=left>Flood
victims were left virtually to their own devices for
days<o:p></o:p></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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only difference between the chaos of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>
and a Third World disaster operation, he said, was that a foreign dictator would
have responded better. <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>It has been a profoundly shocking experience for many across this vast
country who, for the large part, believe the home-spun myth about the
invulnerability of the American Dream. <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>The
party in power in <st1:State><st1:place>Washington</st1:place></st1:State>
is always happy to convey the impression of 50 states moving forward together in
social and economic harmony towards a bigger and better
<st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>That is what presidential campaigning is all about.
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>But
what the devastating consequences of Katrina have shown - along with the
response to it - is that for too long now, the fabric of this complex and
overstretched country, especially in states like
<st1:State><st1:place>Louisiana</st1:place></st1:State>
and <st1:State><st1:place>Mississippi</st1:place></st1:State>,
has been neglected and ignored. <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>Borrowed
time
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>The
fitting metaphors relating to the <st1:City><st1:place>New
Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>
debacle are almost too numerous to mention. <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>First there was an extraordinary complacency, mixed together with what
seemed like over-reaction, before the storm. <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>The
city's hurricane shelters grew increasingly filthy and
crime-ridden<o:p></o:p></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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align=left>A
genuinely heroic mayor orders a total evacuation of the city the day before
Katrina arrives, knowing that for decades now, <st1:City><st1:place>New
Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>
has been living on borrowed time. <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>The National Guard and federal emergency personnel stay tucked up at
home. <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>The havoc of Katrina had been predicted countless times on a local and
federal level - even to the point where it was acknowledged that tens of
thousands of the poorest residents would not be able to leave the city in
advance. <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>No official plan was ever put in place for them.
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>Abandoned
to the elements
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>The famous levees that were breached could have been strengthened and
raised at what now seems like a trifling cost of a few million dollars.
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>The Bush administration, together with Congress, cut the budgets for
flood protection and army engineers, while local politicians failed to generate
any enthusiasm for local tax increases. <o:p></o:p>
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align=left><st1:City><st1:place>New
Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>
partied-on just hoping for the best, abandoned by anyone in national authority
who could have put the money into really protecting the city.
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>Meanwhile, the poorest were similarly abandoned, as the horrifying images
and stories from the Superdome and Convention Center prove.
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>The
truth was simple and apparent to all. If journalists were there with cameras
beaming the suffering live across <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
where were the officers and troops? <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>The neglect that meant it took five days to get water, food, and medical
care to thousands of mainly orderly African-American citizens desperately
sheltering in huge downtown buildings of their native city, has been going on
historically, for as long as the inadequate levees have been there.
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>Divided
city
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>I
should make a confession at this point: I have been to
<st1:City><st1:place>New
Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>
on assignment three times in as many years, and I was smitten by the Big Easy,
with its unique charms and temperament. <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>But behind the elegant intoxicants of the French Quarter, it was clearly
a city grotesquely divided on several levels. It has twice the national average
poverty rate. <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>The government approach to such deprivation looked more like thoughtless
containment than anything else. <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>It
will be many weeks before the flood waters are
cleared<o:p></o:p></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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align=left>The nightly shootings and drugs-related homicides of recent years pointed
to a small but vicious culture of largely black-on-black crime that everyone
knew existed, but no-one seemed to have any real answers for.
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>Again, no-one wanted to pick up the bill or deal with the realities of
race relations in the 21st Century. <o:p></o:p>
<P class=MsoNormal
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align=left>Too often in the so-called "New South", they still look positively 19th
Century. <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>"Shoot the looters" is good rhetoric, but no lasting solution.
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>Uneasy
paradox
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>It is astonishing to me that so many Americans seem shocked by the
existence of such concentrated poverty and social neglect in their own country.
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>In
the workout room of the condo where I am currently staying in the affluent LA
neighbourhood of <st1:City><st1:place>Santa
Monica</st1:place></st1:City>,
an executive and his personal trainer ignored the anguished television reports
blaring above their heads on Friday evening. <o:p></o:p>
<P class=MsoNormal
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align=left>Either they did not care, or it was somehow too painful to discuss.
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>When
President Bush told "Good Morning America" on Thursday morning that nobody could
have "anticipated" the breach of the <st1:City><st1:place>New
Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>
levees, it pointed to not only a remote leader in denial, but a whole political
class. <o:p></o:p>
<P class=MsoNormal
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align=left>The uneasy paradox which so many live with in this country - of being
first-and-foremost rugged individuals, out to plunder what they can and paying
as little tax as they can get away with, while at the same time believing that
America is a robust, model society - has reached a crisis point this week.
<o:p></o:p>
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align=left>Will there be real investment, or just more buck-passing between federal
agencies and states? <o:p></o:p>
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align=left>The country has to choose whether it wants to rebuild the levees and
destroyed communities, with no expense spared for the future - or once again
brush off that responsibility, and blame the other guy.
<o:p></o:p>
<o:p>  

By Matt Wells
BBC News, Los Angeles </o:p>

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