Spike Lee’s Documentary: When The Levees Broke
Aug 23 | by Natasha

As many of you know, the 2nd installment of this 4 part/2 night documentary Spike is doing on Hurricane Katrina survivors aired tonight on HBO. Several of you have asked me to talk about it here due to my being from New Orleans and
my experience with Katrina. However, I honestly don't feel ready to watch
this documentary seeing that I still have issues from dealing with this
hurricane incident first hand. It has affected my life in more ways
than I realized when everything first happened, and it is still very difficult
for me to relive everything by watching the documentary. I do know
that several of my friends and family who have watched speak very
highly of it and I encourage everyone to watch (if you have HBO) to
get the true effect of what happened to our people. Not what the
"other" media has fed you up until this point. The full documentary
re-airs on August 29th. I will definitely be watching soon.
So here is a letter from YBF reader Lynn who conveys the importance of
"us" learning about the exact happenings of this tragedy--especially if you
were not personally affected by it:
Hello Natasha I

As many of you know, the 2nd installment of this 4 part/2 night documentary Spike is doing on Hurricane Katrina survivors aired tonight on HBO. Several of you have asked me to talk about it here due to my being from New Orleans and
my experience with Katrina. However, I honestly don't feel ready to watch
this documentary seeing that I still have issues from dealing with this
hurricane incident first hand. It has affected my life in more ways
than I realized when everything first happened, and it is still very difficult
for me to relive everything by watching the documentary. I do know
that several of my friends and family who have watched speak very
highly of it and I encourage everyone to watch (if you have HBO) to
get the true effect of what happened to our people. Not what the
"other" media has fed you up until this point. The full documentary
re-airs on August 29th. I will definitely be watching soon.
So here is a letter from YBF reader Lynn who conveys the importance of
"us" learning about the exact happenings of this tragedy--especially if you
were not personally affected by it:
Hello Natasha I

















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can't read the whole
6:04 pm - Sep 15, '10
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