Tucked inside a $14.4 billion (€10.7 billion) blueprint for the rebuilding of New Orleans is a proposal for a Hurricane Katrina monument on a grand, “Homeric” scale, like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Maybe we could build houses on top of it. Seriously, is this the first anyone has heard of this? I guess there is need for a memorial but, damn, let’s get our shit together first shall we?
New Orleans recovery plan calls for a Katrina memorial on a ‘Homeric’ scale
Check the Oliver Thomas quote!
When you see phrases like “$14.4 billion blueprint” then you know there’s about 13 billion in other fantasies throughout that plan. Maybe our new imaginary light rail passenger trains can stop at our new imaginary Arc de Federal Flood.
The “Homeric” monument we should try to build would be for Homer Plessy and the black lawyers who (in many ways) helped start the modern civil rights movement.
Yes, I blogged about it over Memorial Day weekend. No one bothered commenting on it back then.