We find Kathleen Koch's premise, presumptuous, uneducated and quite frankly condescendingly paternalistic. Kathleen Koch speaks about the triumph of the human spirit over great tragedy as if Hurricane Katrina and it's ravage of the State of Mississippi epiphanically and suddenly opened her eyes to it's profane mundanity. We say profane mundanity, because triumph over tragedies whether great or small is what the human spirit dynamically and dialectically does on a daily basis in it's great struggle against ignorance, presumption and condescension, in the fight against Man's injustice to fellow Man.
It is ironic that Kathleen Koch uses the State of Mississippi and it's Hurricane Katrina experience as reference. Which also is the medium by which she exposes her ridiculously stupendous ignorance at the expense of the great historical tapestry of human suffering and human triumph, a wealth of indescribable adversity and tragedy, that has always been there for her ignorance, it's alienation and privilege to redeem itself with.
The State of Mississippi and it's ability to dish out historical cruelty and injustice is relatively in a class by itself and as Hurricane Katrina relates to Mississippi the point can be made that it was karma---yet it's victimized Black people, their enslavement, the obscenity of Jim Crow to the contemporary fact of substandard quality of life as legacy have by mere fact of survival and existence proved the human spirit's ability to be optimistic in light of great tragedy and adversity.
Kathleen Koch didn't need Hurricane Katrina and it's impact on the elite, privileged and status quo of Mississippi to remind her and reacquaint herself with the human spirit and it's ability to triumph in the face of great tragedy and adversity. She should have just opened her eyes and looked around pre-hurricane Katrina Mississippi and Kathleen Koch would have witnessed and experienced the triumph of the human spirit in great and small moments of tragedy.
The Book Rising from Katrina is just another example of Berkeleian subjectivity run presumptuously amuck.
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