Reply #57: Well done Redstone...our friend..

[Sugarbleus]

I didn't see your post but I get the gist. I too think that at the top of the problem is SHEER INCOMPETENCE. Under that rung is CLASSISM (there were poor and/or disabled elderly white people among the victims in NOLA--tourists were stranded too), then some racism get's mixed in for the final blow.

I am not of African decent. I was married to and spent a decade living among Black Americans (who happened to be from that area of the south no less!). I cannot say I know anything about being black but I do have a new understanding of the heritage and struggles AND their point of view about White Amercia today.

I am MUCH more....ACUTELY aware of the subtlties of racism. It can be an almost overlooked--passive/aggressive insidiousness. Most unfortunate is how we human beings STILL ASSUME things about those who are different from us.

Whatever we want to say about the disaster in NOLA (and MS) one thing is for sure; it has been a HUMANITARIAN CRISIS OF EPIC PROPORTIONS and it is a SHAME AND A SCANDAL for this country!

I'm ASHAMED and I'm OUTRAGED TO THIS DAY. Heads should ROLL (starting with Bush)!!

~~Peace~~