By Kenny Webster
May 19, 2021
A group of harmless high school seniors from Southeast Louisiana flew a Trump flag up the school flagpole and now the NAACP is involved.
How ridiculous is that?!
Politics on the campus of Belle Chasse high school has school board members crafting a new lesson plan on how to handle it after a senior prank caused backlash from the community.
That recent senior prank came with a political message that’s now at the center of a debate in Plaquemines Parish. A photo shows Belle Chasse High School students posing on campus with an American flag and a Trump flag. The words “liberals suck” are written on the sidewalk. There’s also video of a Trump flag on a flagpole on the side of the school.
A group of harmless high school seniors from Southeast Louisiana flew a Trump flag up the school flagpole and now the NAACP is involved. How ridiculous is that?!
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Darlene Turner is an Inupiaq Eskimo living on a battle line. Not the military kind, the climate change kind. With less sea ice to buffer storms, the ocean is washing away chunks of her village and its residents have made a difficult decision to relocate. “Would you relocate?” she asks.
Experts believe stories like Turner’s are just a precursor to a massive migratory trend that could have millions of Americans on the move before mid-century.
In this episode of Things That Go Boom, The World s partner podcast from PRX, host Laicie Heeley examines how climigration could play out, and how climate change can become a threat multiplier.
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For Darilyn Turner and her neighbors, living in the bottomlands along the banks of the Mississippi River south of New Orleans is particularly perilous from June through November.
Those months encompass the Atlantic hurricane season. Even in a normal year, people are on edge, she said, worried about storms that blow over the Gulf of Mexico, bringing walls of water, high winds and, often, widespread destruction when they find land.
But 2020 was no normal year.
A record Atlantic basin hurricane season was fueled by warmer than normal ocean and Gulf waters that scientists say were, at least in part, caused by climate change. In all, there were 30 named storms, the most on record and almost three times the typical number. The basin includes the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.