It's Been One Year

It's been one year since Hurricane Katrina has hit. What is different for so many of those victims? For thousands, not so much. They don't have homes or jobs or unemployment.

In the Ninth Ward there are still dead bodies that have not been recovered. This is not a Third World Nation, this is the United States of America -- is it not? How can this be happening? Why is it being tolerated?

We, as a Nation, had a real opportunity to take a good, long look at ourselves. We have some real problems. There were several neighborhoods full of poor Black people who were left behind long before Hurricane Katrina. Have we taken this moment to ask ourselves, why in this Nation of prosperity were so people left to live a life in utter poverty without that quality -- HOPE -- that is the hallmark of America? How can we help these people now? How can we prevent these things happening ever again?

Why doesn't the President seem to care? Where is the special committee to ensure that New Orleans and all of the other cities recover?

Are the American people to desensitized that we don't care once the nightly news coverage moves on? Do we care so little about our fellow man to allow these things to happen? Are we so busy with being consumers, that we have forgotten that are those who go without everyday in our own backyards?

Most importantly, WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?