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well, i just heard something shocking.
the death toll from hurricane katrina (no not me.) is likely to be more than 9/11, which is still remembered often, we even have a war about it when that couldve been a step towards alliances and peace. but relief hasnt come as quickly because the people who couldnt afford to get out of new orleans are mostly poor minority groups. gangs are rising to power, people are looting homes, there are rapes and suicides in shelters, and these people just need food, we need to be down there building shelters, repairing the high schools and community centers that have been acting as homes for people. september eleventh killed many rich white people. of course its a tragedy, many people died, of all races and economic status, but the bottom line is, the world trade center was a highly productive corperate building. now these people's city is being ripped apart and only now are they getting aid. many more people will probably get shot by the military, which is coming in to "keep the peace." most people who actively contribute to america's economic state, or relatively well off, could afford to drive away, take a plane away, but its the people who barely had a home and food and clothes on their back who had everything torn away from them. theyre starving, and people are still dying from the aftermath...its horrible.
whatever we claim to be, this country is racist and nobody seems to even be doing anything about it.
makes me want to get on a plane and go down to new orleans.
the death toll from hurricane katrina (no not me.) is likely to be more than 9/11, which is still remembered often, we even have a war about it when that couldve been a step towards alliances and peace. but relief hasnt come as quickly because the people who couldnt afford to get out of new orleans are mostly poor minority groups. gangs are rising to power, people are looting homes, there are rapes and suicides in shelters, and these people just need food, we need to be down there building shelters, repairing the high schools and community centers that have been acting as homes for people. september eleventh killed many rich white people. of course its a tragedy, many people died, of all races and economic status, but the bottom line is, the world trade center was a highly productive corperate building. now these people's city is being ripped apart and only now are they getting aid. many more people will probably get shot by the military, which is coming in to "keep the peace." most people who actively contribute to america's economic state, or relatively well off, could afford to drive away, take a plane away, but its the people who barely had a home and food and clothes on their back who had everything torn away from them. theyre starving, and people are still dying from the aftermath...its horrible.
whatever we claim to be, this country is racist and nobody seems to even be doing anything about it.
makes me want to get on a plane and go down to new orleans.