I've just seen the lunchtime news and the New Orleans super-dome has re-opened after hurricane Katrina. On one level i think great: this symbol of despair has been transformed into a symbol of hope. But as i was watching the news footage of U2 playing and hearing the report mention the prices that people had paid to be there my heart sank. All the people in the news footage were white and presumably had enough disposable income to be able to afford a ticket to this one-off prestigious event.
The party should have been for all the people who spent those long days holed up in the super-dome when nobody else wanted to be there...It seems that opening the super-dome just papers of the cracks of a fragmented city.
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