Posted by
Scotch Indian on Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:46:41 PM
“The collective shadow of our way of life, the underbelly of unresolved racism and class inequality, the narcissism of each of us takes care only of himself and let the other swim or sink is exposed in this catastrophe.”
“What you will not see, but what we witnessed, were the real heroes and sheroes of the hurricane relief effort: the working class of New Orleans.” “We are now facing our moral failure and hopefully out of this confrontation we may find healing and transformation - toward compassion and caring each for the other.”
“So, at the collective level, we in America have a lot of soul searching to do.”
"What are we to think about those in New Orleans who are cited as victimizing others, including those who have come to do rescue work? How are we to understand their destructive behavior in terms of trauma response? There has been research done with rats that shows that the last thing the rat will do before being rendered immobilized is to attack by biting the hand that is holding it. It is possible, time and in depth study of these offenders will tell, that aggressive behavior is in some way the nervous systems way of fight rather than freeze response.”