Originally Posted by tijanaw

1st point:
Who are u to decide who deserve to die and who does not, when this catastrophy happened, for 72 hours no one did nothing to help this people. For 72 hours these people were left behind by a local and federal government too busy looking good in front of the media. Less than 12 hours after Katrina hit, MSNBC and CNN reporters rolled in the city with simple SUV broadcasting the devastation on every news channel. Where was the government?
2nd point:
They said they ordered a mandatory evacuation: How can one evacuate if one doe not have transportation. Maybe they assumed that every one in New Orleans had a car, maybe they also assumed that all the seniors and sicks could find a way to get a ride. How a country such as ours, big and powerful, can they ordered an evacuation without providing means to do so for the unfitted. The emergency plan was: Oh, we can put them in a superdome. We know what happened in there.
Every litterate person in this country knew this was going to happen at some point in the near future. Fema, Noaa and every other organization had warned the government that the day a cat 2+ would hit the city, it was going to be worst than Sept 11. And still they didn't have a plan like they did when invading Irak,but i'll leave that for another day. On top of it, they kept cutting the funding of these organizations, in 2005 Fema needed about $14 million to make repairs on the levys as well as around the city to save some of the coastal marshes. The goverment said no. During all my college and post college years, every time I have taken a weather and climate class of any sort, New Orleans was mention as a disaster waiting to happen.
I'm not gonna to sit here and say it could have been prevented, but I'll say this: A lot of lives could have been saved, a lot suffering prevented with a better governmental preparations. they knew this was coming!
3rd point:
I don't wait for a disaster to happen to donate money. I do that and more on a regular base, from the Red Cross,UNICEF, Habitat 4 Humanity as well as Save the Children. I do more than that, I donate my time on monthly base (being member of the GTU) to go clean roads, lakes and infected ponds. Next time you ride your X, look 4 "Adopt a Road" sign all around you. We take care of your neighborhood when your are sleeping.
So don't get me started!
4th point:
" Kayne West has not donated a single cent to the cause and he's talking shit?? like it said.. if somebody is coming to help and you shoot them for no apparent reason you're excess population and you deserve to die. put yourself in the contractors shoes."
Being a proud Black man, i'm not going to discuss what Kanye West and other Black Stars do in our community on a daily basis. We don't watch the same news, we don't go to the same places, we don't listen to the same music nor do we like the same food, we co-exist but we don't live in the same world.
On this day of my life, at this time, i'm not going to put myself on those contractors shoes who are getting paid to do their job. However i'm going to put myself in the shoes of the people who lost every thing including Brothers and Sisters as well as Moms and Dads. American citizen whose tone of skin made them look suspicious from the 1st hour of their life to these seconds i'm writing these words. I'm reminded what I am at Starbucks as well as the grocery store. I don't want to but I see it in people eyes everywhere i go.
I'm not going to defend the assholes that shooting at people and cops but one thing I know for sure is: the system has failed, the government has failed to protect them, too busy protecting other nations.
But at times like theses, it's very important for all of us to stay 2gether and see what we can do to help, the day will come when we will determine the responsabilities and who is gulty of what, why the cry for help of theses organizations were ignored etc......
In the mean time, help and enjoy your X, you are part of the priviledged ones.