"Send help please!" said a refugee. Bush responded by approving $10.5 billion in aid.
Ok...what's wrong with that picture? How are you ONLY going to approve $10.5 billion for the hurricane? Florida got nearly $20 billion, and they are a rich state. Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama are poor states.
We need more than that in Louisiana as New Orleans will take BILLIONS AND BILLIONS to fix. I mean...we are THREE states. We can't split $10.5 billion in three ways (that's $3.5 billion each). Come on...what can $3.5 billion do for a destroyed city and a destroyed section of a state?
I wonder...is Bush REALLY that dumb? Does he not know that New Orleans is under water with toxic fumes, fires, and animals running wild? I wonder how does he sleep at night, knowing that he treated his brother better. Is it because Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama are majority Black? I don't get it. We are supposed to be the people who make up the USA, and we are the ones being treated wrong. Bush sent so much money to the victims of tsunami and stuff, and had food dropped off the next day. Us...we are still seeing images of our people "looting," while white people are "finding" food.
How is that Blacks are looting, and whites are finding? I'm sorry...did I miss something? Looting is defined as "stolen goods." Mainly, looting is stealing during the time of a war. So, aren't the whites doing the same thing we are? Maybe, it's a race thing. Maybe, it's not. But I do know something: they are both doing the same thing! They are both stealing. I guess that means if the Blacks on TV were white, then they would be "trying to survive." In actuality, some of those Blacks were trying to survive. One guy "looted" some Diet Pepsi and groceries to have food to eat. Of course, the media said "looting"...
I'm just really stressed right now. So many of my people are either from the affected areas or go to school there. I've called some of them, and most made it out OK (like Keke Rogers, Monet Weatherspoon, and others). I'm glad to hear that, but I haven't heard from one of my homegirls, who was trapped down there due to Xavier's dumb policy. They said they had to have her parent's signature before they ship her out. I was like, "What?!" What's wrong with them? I've been trying hard to contact her and everything, but the cellular system is so messed up down there. I hope she's alright. I talked to Monet, who goes to Xavier, and she said the flood was so high that the 5th floor of her dorm is flooded.
Anyway, back to the subject at hand, Bush really needs to send MORE money down to New Orleans. I don't care how in debt the country is. If we can send so much money to all these other countries and so on, then we should be able to send at least $20 billion to each state. Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana need it. Mississippi is one of the poorest states in the union. They may not recover for years from the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
Bush, if you read this, don't be offended. Just send more money. As some of the refugees said, "Send help please!"
Posted By: Darryl D. Smith
Friday, September 2nd 2005 at 11:40PM
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