Who Stole My Homeland?
I have tried to write about New Orleans every day for a week.
This disaster has stripped me of all perspective, and I can’t find any sensible place from which to address it.
The magnitude of our loss is heartbreaking.
The human suffering is unbearable.
The lack of preparedness is an outrage.
But the thing I can’t seem to process is this:
When did America become a place that would stand by and watch our poor, our sick, and our elderly die?
I realize I’m not the only American who is feeling betrayed and abandoned because of our government’s slow and apathetic response to the flood. (They had two days’ warning to get them out, for goodness sake! )
As much as it comforts me to know that the citizens of the U.S. are still kind and empathetic people- I just don’t know how to live with the realization that our elected officials do not share this basic respect for human life and dignity.
