Spike Lee Makes Documentary About Katrina

Spike Lee is heading to Orleans for a documentary examining how race and politics collided in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The event has opened discussions from black political activists and conspiracy theorists.

The soft critics are talking about the slow response of President Bush. The harsh ones, for example Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, suggest the levees in New Orleans were broken as a way of "getting rid of the poor."

Activist Jesse Jackson compared the New Orleans convention center, where evacuees gathered, to "the hull of a slave ship."

"I wouldn't put anything past the U.S. government when it comes to people of color," Lee said in an interview with Reuters.
"There is too much history ... going back to when the U.S. army gave smallpox-infested blankets to Native Americans", Jackson added.

Lee watched television coverage of Katrina while he was in Venice, Italy, for a film festival, and found himself riveted to the television.

"I thought, 'I have to find an angle and if I find it, I have to do something'", the filmmaker confessed.