The least among us

The events of the last 8 days in America's Gulf Coast have reminded us all just how little Americans actually give a shit about the poor in this country. We were all more than happy to juist let the poor rot and if a hundred had died in New Orleans or even 500 or a 1000 we might have considered it acceptable. But when close to 10,000 people are fucked mightily by a city, state and federal system that clearly doesn't care and bodies are floating in city street on our TV screens where our children can see them .... well, suddenly it hits us just how greedy and uncaring this country has become.

It is no secret that New Orleans is home to thousands of poor black folks who wouldn't CHOOSE to stay, but would be FORCED by circumstances to stay in the path of the storm. Most of them would have survived too if the levy system hadn't failed. This is a confluence of issues resulting in death and displacement on a massive scale.

Hopefully, the sleeping masses of unfeeling, unthinking Americans will wake up a little and see that the greatest nation on earth has been kidding itself for some time. The way we treat "the least of us" is how any great nation is truly judged and when it comes to treating the least of us, this country has always treated them the same way that a baby treats its diapers.