we all know that had the stranded people of new orleans been white upper middle class people they would have been rescued immediately. the evil is so obvious that i don't even know where to start. and people who talk about the looting - "see? these people are looting - see what they do?" - of course they are looting - they haave been left for dead in a floating cesspool.
it is unfathomable to me that anyone could doubt for a second what is so obviously happening here.
whatreallyhappened.com
i don't know what to do to help. i have my own problems. we all do. i can be sad and pray and think about these people and thank god that i'm not one of them and donate some money to some organization that may or may not use it in the way in which i've trusted it will - it is such a helpless feeling. we all poured money into the tsunami relief - god knows our tax dollars are funding crazy violence in the middle east - maybe we've sponsored a child in africa - there are people in our own country who are starving to death every day. but many of us choose to just look at them and call them lazy, uneducated, poor, etc etc etc...because we are blessed with the ability to take care of ourselves - with the upbringing that allows us to WANT to take care of ourselves.
i do not know how to help. it feels so wrong when billions of dollars are funding the killing of people in other countries and our own citizens have to rely upon small dollar donations from people like me who find it hard now to fill up the gas tank.
why don't we have a choice to fund the war? the president could have taken donations for that. he would certainly have come up with enough money, since all the big businesses and the weathiest people are behind him. the rest of us could have used our tax dollars to help our own people.
and i'm not saying that i'm against helping poverty stricken third world countries - as humans we are obligated to help all people - but suffering is suffering - and we have people living in extreme poverty all over this country.
the hurricane and it's aftermath (which is only now beginning) has thrust things in front of our eyes - things that have always been true - but now to deny them is absolutely impossible. of course there are people who rationalize and justify every move (or lack thereof) that is made in the "rescue effort"...every move that is not made is strategically planned. of course.
if you want to donate to the red cross relief effort, go here: DONATE
of course, who knows what actually happens to that money...i know, i know, it's the red cross. and everyone trusts the red cross. i just don't know WHAT to believe anymore. why do these people need to rely on my $20 when billions of dollars are going overseas? i just don't get it.
but the christian right wing gets it. they seem to know what's best for us and the world in general. so glad they're in control of our lives. maybe we should have a rally in support of the stranded people of new orleans. a big rally. we could wait til the sun goes down and...hmm...we'll need light...oh - i know! we could burn a cross! let's all dress the same to show unity, ok? what do we all have in our closets - well, i don't know, but everyone has a white bedsheet somewhere in their house, right?
do what you can. that's all we can do. these are scary times. and it's not the "terror threat" that scares me the most...
be safe.
