About Katrina
People are dying on the gulf coast because of a grotesque miscalculation of the scope of this disaster by everyone involved. The term disaster of Biblical proportions is used to describe many things that do not compare.
Katrina has caused a domino effect of subsequent disasters and blunders reminiscent of the Keystone Kops.
I don't believe that everyone involved is an inept incompetent, but a many of the top ranking officials are showing their ignorance.
It is one thing to be able to pay $3500 to get a limousine driver to take you away from danger but it is ludicrous to expect a family whose entire yearly income is $18000 to be able to do that or anything else.
They opened the Super Dome for those who could not leave but didn't realize the problems with that building. A mayor doing his job for a change, my hat's off to you, perhaps I can fill it with donations. Levys, dams and canals failed to hold back Mother Nature's power.
New Orleans is under water. They are not the only ones in trouble. So now it has taken too long to get supplies to people (yet victims of a tsunami on the other side of the world gets an immediate response) and the viewing public begin to speculate as to why this has happened. Not just what has happened in the Big Easy but with the United States of America.
Our government is not run by 'We the People' it is run by those who forgot why they were elected to office.
Instead of rushing help to people, many of whom have always been in need, they are playing the blame game. There's just too much jackassery going on. It is time to help these people, time for us all to help. There will be plenty of time for blame, later and hopefully later will never come.
I am made painfully aware of our country's attention to race and class. It is an area heavily populated by Black Americans. We see a Black family with food and they are called looters. A white family with food is called heroic survivors.
I was raised to believe that inspite of the lies and mistakes that have been rampant in our country 'We the people...' have done good. I have been shown the naivete of my beliefs.
--Shanna Mawavise
(Author of The Tale of Chadizah and Walking the Path: part two of the Mothersource Cycle)
Katrina has caused a domino effect of subsequent disasters and blunders reminiscent of the Keystone Kops.
I don't believe that everyone involved is an inept incompetent, but a many of the top ranking officials are showing their ignorance.
It is one thing to be able to pay $3500 to get a limousine driver to take you away from danger but it is ludicrous to expect a family whose entire yearly income is $18000 to be able to do that or anything else.
They opened the Super Dome for those who could not leave but didn't realize the problems with that building. A mayor doing his job for a change, my hat's off to you, perhaps I can fill it with donations. Levys, dams and canals failed to hold back Mother Nature's power.
New Orleans is under water. They are not the only ones in trouble. So now it has taken too long to get supplies to people (yet victims of a tsunami on the other side of the world gets an immediate response) and the viewing public begin to speculate as to why this has happened. Not just what has happened in the Big Easy but with the United States of America.
Our government is not run by 'We the People' it is run by those who forgot why they were elected to office.
Instead of rushing help to people, many of whom have always been in need, they are playing the blame game. There's just too much jackassery going on. It is time to help these people, time for us all to help. There will be plenty of time for blame, later and hopefully later will never come.
I am made painfully aware of our country's attention to race and class. It is an area heavily populated by Black Americans. We see a Black family with food and they are called looters. A white family with food is called heroic survivors.
I was raised to believe that inspite of the lies and mistakes that have been rampant in our country 'We the people...' have done good. I have been shown the naivete of my beliefs.
--Shanna Mawavise
(Author of The Tale of Chadizah and Walking the Path: part two of the Mothersource Cycle)
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