Katrina, the baddest...

President Bush looks out the window of Air Force One over New Orleans to survey the damage from Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

I’ve been trying to stay away from Katrina. Trying to wrap my mind around it.
Trying to wait until something shakes out of it. Waiting for my friend Bubba to hear about his grandchild, son and two brothers. Hoping to be a distraction from the anguish. But two things have pushed me.

1. The relief that my auntie was on vacation with my cousin Missy and she’s in Brooklyn right now, instead of Mobile. One of my church members has lost his aunt & uncle, and some others haven’t heard from close relatives yet.

2. The coverage of the looting.

I’m not trying to be a race bater. But why are they only showing the African-Americans looting? As if there aren’t any Hispanics, Whites and others looting.

What’s bothering me more than the seemingly skewed media coverage is this… Here we have people fighting for their lives, people who have no food, no water, no houses and we are worried about them stilling Nike’s and supplies from the local stores? We are more concerned about them stilling goods than saving them from death. Aren’t the insurance companies going to have to deal with the stores devastation and looting? The mayor of New Orleans has directed the police to stop going on search and rescue missions, and to enforce martial Law.

Quit saving lives, and stop them from stealing?
Don’t worry about pulling them off the roofs anymore. Don’t go and cut them out of the attics, make sure they don’t steal any towels and clean soap from the grocery store.

It’s so utterly messed up, that it’s hard to even comprehend. Seeing these tanks riding National Guard and police around New Orleans, brandishing guns while people sit in anguish in 100-degree heat on their roof with no water makes me angry.

Our capitalistic society would rather protect it’s capital than its people.

President Bush flew over, on his way back from his FIVE-WEEK VACATION.
Whew! I hope he’s well rested. They say he’ll actually visit on Friday. I guess he’s going to check in at the office first.

Who in the world gets a five-week vacation anyway? The leader of the free world must not be that busy of a job. He’s out riding bikes with Lance Armstrong while the country is at war.
I don’t remember Clinton ever going on a five-week vacation.