Politics and Racism
i've only been gone for one week but it feels more like one month. i feel so different it's hard to explain. for whatever reason everything seems out of place i just can't put my finger on it yet....
maybe i've experienced too much in new orleans in such a small amount of time? or maybe i have gained just the slighest bit of knowledge and i need more....i just don't know what the case is yet and so far i'm a little on edge.
i was going to say that i hope this comes to pass...but i don't know if that should be the case. i liked feeling like i was accomplishing something while i was down there. that i was apart of a team that was trying to make a difference. at the same time you saw a lot of forces conflicting with all of the good we were trying to do.
Politics and Racism. Those words are more disgusting to me than ever before. So much so that i can barely look at them. Everytime i spell them out in my head i cringe as an ugly blob of hatred and disgust boils up in my stomache and throat so that it's hard to breathe and think clearly.
The words 'horrible injustice' came to mind so many times this week i can barely begin to explain.
I have to end the journal here...i don't know what else to do with these thoughts. hopefully i can clear things up in my head enought to right a half-intelligent/legibal article for the whit sometime soon...which has been my goal all a long.
maybe i've experienced too much in new orleans in such a small amount of time? or maybe i have gained just the slighest bit of knowledge and i need more....i just don't know what the case is yet and so far i'm a little on edge.
i was going to say that i hope this comes to pass...but i don't know if that should be the case. i liked feeling like i was accomplishing something while i was down there. that i was apart of a team that was trying to make a difference. at the same time you saw a lot of forces conflicting with all of the good we were trying to do.
Politics and Racism. Those words are more disgusting to me than ever before. So much so that i can barely look at them. Everytime i spell them out in my head i cringe as an ugly blob of hatred and disgust boils up in my stomache and throat so that it's hard to breathe and think clearly.
The words 'horrible injustice' came to mind so many times this week i can barely begin to explain.
I have to end the journal here...i don't know what else to do with these thoughts. hopefully i can clear things up in my head enought to right a half-intelligent/legibal article for the whit sometime soon...which has been my goal all a long.