Contacted CNN today about the Tuscaloosa Red Cross. Hopefully they will send someone down there to investigate.
I've been living in the south again for the last 5 years, and I realize I have been very naïve about the powerful continuance of racism here. At the beginning of this month I saw a brutal disregard for Americans at the Superdome and the Convention Center in NOLA. Hearing about the racist attitudes at the Tuscaloosa Red Cross is just sickening.
I can't imagine what it must be like to loose your home, your neighborhood, your job, your local shopping centers to a hurricane and then encounter an ugly suspicious condescending attitude when trying to get help from the Red Cross. Katrina was a horrible storm, but it its wake, a truth has been revealed to the masses: The U.S. has a very serious problem with racism and poverty. And the current administration has no interest at all in addressing the problem. We have got to do something. We have got to get very serious about communicating the core philosophies of the Democratic Party to America and take back the White House in 2008.
(While writing this, my two-year-old daughter has removed her pants and diaper and is now sitting in the windowsill with a bag of cookies eating them like a squirrel-must go.)