Rev. Tellis Chapman Preaching 'A Girl Name Katrina'

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Tellis Chapman Preaching @ Southern Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland
This Misssissippi Born preacher who pastors in Detroit is a lightning bolt that preaching something serious in Baltimore, MD.
The primary victims of the flood were poor black people.
It's true that most of those killed by the floodwaters were the poor, the old, and the sick. But when almost all of a metropolitan area is underwater, it's equally true that the victims are black and white and Creole and Vietnamese, and rich, poor, and middle class. Television crews had an easy freeway off-ramp to the Superdome and the Convention Center, but they didn't know how to get to neighboring St. Bernard Parish, a suburb where working-class white folks spent four days on their roofs in 100-degree heat with no food and water-a parish where nearly 90 percent of the housing was destroyed. Of course, recovery was easier for people with resources, whether family, neighbors, the wonderful volunteers, insurance, or checks from the Road Home. But recovery wasn't easy for anyone.
MYTH 4: People who left New Orleans are better off.
That's the Barbara Bush notion, first uttered when evacuees were spread across the floor of the Houston Astrodome. It reflected, to be polite, a strong imaginative vision. Amazingly, almost five years later, we have nothing more substantial to guide us on this subject. There is no authoritative census or directory of those who were bused, trained, or choppered out of harm's way on a one-way trip to no-one-knew-where. We have anecdotal data-a friend who works in New Orleans's housing department says her phone rings "off the hook" every day with people who want to return-but no comprehensive idea about how many of the evacuees are happier in their new locales, and how many ache to come home.
MYTH 5: The primary government failure in Katrina was the response, and Bush is responsible.
Well, President Bush was primarily responsible for the FEMA meltdown, although Michael "Heckuva Job" Brown, the head of the agency at the time, was a human piñata hung out for the media to pummel. His boss, then secretary of homeland security Michael Chertoff, attended a bird-flu briefing in Atlanta the day after Katrina hit, without any negative media coverage. Chertoff now heads a security consulting firm that sells high-priced full-body scanners for airports to the government. (Ask the Israelis why they don't use the machines.) The primary government failure in Katrina was the failed hurricane protection system, designed and constructed under administrations of both parties. There was plenty political about this catastrophe, but nothing partisan.
And, in the New Orleans tradition of "lagniappe" (like a 13th donut when buying a dozen), here's a BONUS MYTH: The American news media did a great job covering Katrina, putting the suffering on live television and speaking truth to power. Yes, Louisiana senator Mary Landrieu got a good stern talking-to, but, starting with a startling ignorance about the city's geography ("I'm here in the French Quarter," said a CNN reporter in the Central Business District on August 29, 2005) and widening out to a primary philosophical problem-"We just think the emotional stories are more compelling for our audience," one anchor told me-the American media matched its credulous, embed-me-first performance during the Iraq-war runup with another basic failure. At least the Times and the Post apologized about Iraq.