Is it racism, or are we just looking for an excuse.

[in2wishin]

Just as the media is saturated with Hurrican Katrina coverage, so will be my journal with my thoughts and feelings of this disaster, as they happen upon me through the Journal Sentinal, or the New York Times (my newspapers of choice

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[runningit101004]

You said it, sista

[in2wishin]

No your right and immidiatley after writing it I realized I'm making the same generalizations that I'm cursing them for making in the first place. And that's why I said, it's probably the white-bred girl in me feeling this way because I have NO CLUE what it's like to be in those circumstances and to be warned to leave everything you know and love at home without knowing if you'll ever see it again.

As for the response. I just have a hard time believing (as much as I LOATHE president bush) that there are people inherently evil like that, that they would be willing to overlook a suffering city simply because they were of substantially different color. I think he is a bad person...but I do not believe he is evil. Unfortunatley his resources are elsewhere, at a time when we needed them here.

[nebulachica]

Well said! Your post inspires a lot of thought=)