the Surreality of New Orleans

Everthing that is happening in New Orleans seems like a bad dream. I know its a nightmare for Bush. Its like losing your keys to your car and the medicine for your grandmother's diabetes is locked inside. It just seems like once it rains it pours. 9/11, the war in Iraq, the gaza pullout, the bombing in London, and now this. This is way worse than any Freddie Krueger nightmare i had when I was 7. This is real life and the one thing that I have feared has become reality in the United States again: When your life, or my life, becomes someone else's politics. There is no way that this situation should have escalated to this point. It just feels weird reading the news online seeing an add about Paris getting cold feet, or the newest shoes of the season. Looking at photos of broadcast journalist, who are dressed down in jeans, walking next to flood victims that have lost their relatives, are dying of dehydration, or just angry, I can't help but get this weird feeling. I feel weird even writing about whats going on in New Orleans, cause God knows I was the least convinced that the hurricane would really hurt the city, much less destroy it.



The storm might have started the process of destruction in New Orleans, but its the destroyed and disturbed souls in New Orleans who are going to finish the job. Like an apocalypse and knowing there will be gnashing of teeth for eternity, the morally exhausted souls and voodoo demons of New Orleans have turned their faces away from redemption and embraced chaos like a new born child. I can't help but wonder why New Orleans is getting treated the way they are. Being an African-American I am not afraid to ask is it because mostly Blacks are suffering from Katrina not Whites, could be the reason why there has been hardly any help and why newborn babies are dying in the street. I don't ever remember Florida being as bad, even though they suffered through 3 hurricanes last summer and there was definitely a war going on. .I feel like this country has been at war forever. Like spending 3 minutes in hell can seem like eternity, two years at war seems like a lifetime and for some it meant their life. :0( It seems like I am not the only one to openly speak about the race factor fo Katrina. There is a story on MSNBC website. Here read the link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9166350/



What New Orleans and this country needs is prayer. We need to moblize our spirtual warriors and demonstrate and protest the atrocities of today through prayer. Our power as a united people is our power and our choice to pray. On our knees! Voices frail with emotion, hearts full with faith, lips wet with praises, and knees sore from service. Unite as one nation under God. There is no answer but life which is only the beginning of death...