There is so much that I can say about Trouble “The Water” that I’m not even sure where to start. The film is a documentary about Hurricane Katrina, but moreover it takes a cold, hard and unfortunately painful look at the systemic issues in place that keep a disenfranchised population in New Orleans disenfranchised. It deeply affected me and reaffirmed to me that we are a country in need of serious changes that require the efforts of visionaries. The Ninth Ward in New Orleans is just one of the many locations in America where people are shortchanged from the minute they enter the world. What distinguishes the people who lived in the Ninth Ward was that their lives were not just torn to shreds by poverty, HIV, violence, drug hustling AND/OR any other totally insidious force that seems to plague inner cities, but they were not even treated like civilized human beings by members of our own government because of  fear of the “other” and because our government was overextended in Iraq.

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