Listen America
I am not a skeptic. I am not a conspiracy theorist. I am an optimist and I only want to believe the best of evrything. But I can't always believe in the best of everything because I lot of things in this world is fucked up.New Orleans is fucked up right now. Please, don't tell me Bush and the military is doing the best they can to solve this crisis. I won't believe you. The United States of America is the most powerful nation in the world right now and you are trying to tell me that we don't have the means or the sources to help those people? We are doing the best we can yet there are still people trapped on their roofs? There is no food and no water and it's almost been a week. We have dealt with he wrath of nature before, granted not this magnitude but the people we're helped immediately. They didn't start dying off due to starvation and dehydration. People are starving and dehydrating out there, America. Right now, New Orleans is damn near a third world country and instead of getting organized help that I know we are capable of, they are under martial law.
Military convoys aren't going there to help get them out. They are going there to restore order.
Yes, there is looting, but did you see what they are stealing? Not VCR's and microwaves. Pampers, food, water. Things that they need. So what is the military doing but causing even more chaos.
Look at the news and all you see is poor and middleclass White and Black people. I don't think it is coincidence that the majority of the victims is Black and they are still not getting the help they need. If the Hamptons was washed away do you really think people would still be on the roofs waiting for help four days later?
If you personally knew me, you would know that this isn't how I think, how I would even want to think about this country. But pay attention to whats happening. Don't believe them when they say they had no idea the levees would break like that because its a fucking lie. They knew. They knew for a long time. They ran simulation hurricanes on computers and the results was those levees couldn't hold up to a level 3 hurricane. They knew this.
Don't believe what CNN and C-Span tells you because they aren't always 100% truthful. News isn't about information anymore. It's about entertainment and people eat up tragedy. Hell, I couldn't tear my eyes away from the t.v. either and seeing all the death and suffering that New Orleans and Alabama and Mississippi is going through makes my heart ache.
But what really scares me is the thought that the people who made it out and once they decide to let those people who are trapped there out, they will never be able to come back. Those homes and businesses are gone. Do you think once they clear the debris they are going to call eveyrone back and tell them "Its alright to come back now. All clear!" or is businessmen vultures going to swoop down and buy up as much land as they can and start building condos and more casinos right on top of where those people lived?
Hey. Maybe I'm wrong. I want to be wrong. It hurts me to write this, but I don't believe everything I hear. I only trust my two eyes and my common sense. And I see those people being fucked over.
If you thought racism was dead, look at the citizens of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and tell me if you still think that or not.
posted by Jas @ 9:52 AM
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