Hey Brownie, Kiss My Ass!

*** TRIGGER WARNING***   Pictures of death inside



The only Michael Brown that America should condemn and talk shit about wrote an article yesterday in Politico and he actually titled it "Stop Blaming Me for Hurricane Katrina." How are we in a place in America where a person is first given an opportunity to dismiss a large swath of American citizens and their needs and then 10 years after 1,245 human beings died, on this solemn anniversary where we should all be reflecting on the loss of those beautiful lives and the failure of those who should have done absolutely anything possible to save them, we are instead asked to reflect from the perspective of the man who led FEMA at the time and found a way to make a catastrophe into something actually worse for which I cannot find a word? It is beyond my understanding that this garbage is even given a voice today. Shame on Politico.

Brownie, grow up. How fucking old are you?  You just tried to publicly steal the gravity of this important remembrance and offer yourself pity. Were you stomping your feet and screaming while you wrote this shit? Honestly? I am embarrassed to be an American sometimes. It is because we have determined to give ourselves leaders who have absolutely no interest in leading or caring for us and then condemn us for having expected them to.

Brownie dedicated his entire article to focusing the blame on others. He wanted the states and the cities to be responsible for the preparations and recovery. He insists the failures were solely those of others. FEMA (the FEDERAL Emergency Management Agency) exists for a reason. FEMA is actually supposed to work on a national level. Those responsibilities take over those of the states and cities during disasters. He even admitted as much in the article, "Could FEMA have ordered the evacuation of New Orleans? Yes..." Then he rambles on about the steps that would need to have been taken to do so. They sure sounded cumbersome and overwhelming. I can see why he chose not to do that and watch, with the rest of the world, the ruination of an entire city and it citizenry.

Brownie told us that there were "many dark moments," but determined that the worst was probably, "being held responsible for things that [he] didn't control at all." This is the most amazing thing I can imagine. What about the many dark moments of those whose families and homes were destroyed? I would have to imagine their suffering would probably supersede your own. Explore this thought process with me, will you? Demanding that you are not responsible because others didn't do their jobs is, to me, like a 12 year old child being told to watch their little brother while the babysitter runs to the bathroom and while she is out of the room the toddler eats rat poison found on the floor behind the drapes. The child dies but the 12 year old insists, "It wasn't my fault. Yes, I saw that the baby was eating it. Yes, I knew that it would have tragic consequences. But its hardly my fault. The babysitter shouldn't have put me in charge. And my parents shouldn't have had rat poison out and the landlord shouldn't have had rats in the building." That is the same logic that would allow the head of FEMA to tell us 10 years after this tragedy that it was not his responsibility.

Brownie tells us that when they call 911 (the local entity they should have called instead) they are following the proper procedures. Of course, there were no working phones. But, whatever. He made a point of telling us that is the job of the first responders. If an intelligent person takes a moment with that, they then say to themselves, "Right. First responders. Not only responders. Dickhead."

If a single human being would spend a few minutes to remember those three weeks when we were glued to the television just hoping loved ones of those being interviewed were found alive and determine that tragedy and the responsibility of its aftermath were the sole responsibility of the local or state governments, you are out of your mind. Some disasters are well out of the control of those entities. That, by the way, is why we have FEMA.

Brownie even condemns the media for showing us, "young, poor mothers with babies cramped in unsanitary conditions" and priming us for the blame to be directed at FEMA. It is beyond my comprehension how you can actually remind your readers of those people who suffered, but only so as to remind us that the media was subjecting you to ridicule, not that those lives were remotely important. What the FUCK is wrong with you? Honestly!

We are asked to believe that the failures all came from others who determined not to do things. Ask yourself, as a thoughtful and compassionate human being, what would you have done in his shoes? Would you have just said, "Well I am the head of FEMA and this is, indeed, an emergency. Fuck what documents others are unwilling to sign. Fuck that the President is on vacation and seems unwilling or uninterested in participating in any action. I am going to get the National Guard in there immediately. I am going to get the young men and women from nearby military bases to get here with necessary equipment and vehicles and evacuate every human being they can find." Or would you watch the news, see dead bodies floating in water, people stuck on roof tops and thousands of people stranded in the Superdome and remind yourself that other people didn't do their jobs correctly so why should anyone expect for you to have done so?

Selfish sonofabitch.

This is the mission statement of the federal agency you were in charge of:

FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate all hazards.

Brownie, take a quiet moments reflection and ask yourself if, on this anniversary when so many people are mourning the loss of loved ones, their homes and their culture, you should be feeling sorry for yourself. Then ask yourself why in the fuck anyone else should. You should be ashamed of yourself. You should still bear the shame of that, "Heck of a job" and you should now bear the shame of having created and taken an opportunity to have a public pity party and divert the attention of Americans who need solemn remembrance for healing and future progress. You are a disgrace to my country.

I promise you. This is your fault. Certainly other people can bear the shame, as well. But, here, after 10 years of having had time to reflect, you have come up with a diatribe against everyone above and below you and pointed the blame on them, you just told America who and what you are. These lives are your fault. Share the blame, that's fine. But take it. Every single picture herein is of people who suffered. Regardless of the color of their skin or the parts of town they lived or whether or not they could afford an airplane ticket or had a car to leave town, these are all human beings. However you consider them, remember they all have/had many who loved them dearly. Their suffering could've been lessened if you had made choices to ensure their safety. Their loss is still being mourned by the entire country. It is time for you to share in that mourning and take the mature responsibility for your part in it. Until you can do that, Brownie, you do not deserve to call yourself a human being, let alone an American.