Katrina. Many people are still displaced and many are hurt and dismayed and feel betrayed by their government. It is hard to think that in the USA this can happen. How can that be, when there is so much help offered to non-Americans in need. Take the Tsunami Disaster, before one could blink millions were being sent over there. That is good but why not does the same for one’s own nation. This disaster has left this city more divided along racial lines. That’s sad.Charges of political corruption, complaints from those still awaiting federal assistance, a sky-high crime rate and some devastated, mostly black areas that are still untouched by efforts to rebuild have left tensions in the city at an alarming high.“As Americans, we should all feel ashamed of the treatment that poor people of color, prisoners, and other vulnerable people have endured in the aftermath of Katrina,” said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU. “Despite repeated broken promises from politicians, it is terribly disheartening that two years later, this mistreatment still exists. The government cannot be allowed to evade responsibility any longer for its role in the gross civil-rights violations that permeate the Gulf Coast.”Will this situation ever end? Will be able to look past this next year when people feel their needs have been met and time to put the past behind. I hope so.What sticks out in your mind when you think of Katrina? I see people with their belongings paddling ashore but there was no shore, there was water everywhere.
August 30, 2007...3:39 am
Another Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
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