Hurricane Katrina And The Aftermath

The horrible sights of the situation on the ground in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, are sad. It's sad to see old people dying in their wheelchairs and no loved ones nearby. It's sad to hear of people being murdered. It sickens me to hear of girls and women being raped and killed. When people help themselves to food and basic necessities for survival purpose, I hesitate to point a finger. But who ever needed a DVD player, 10 pairs of Nikes, a flat screen TV, and an iPod to survive?

I hope that these souls will look to God and to God's Book, the Holy Bible. I hope that there will be preachers who know the Book and will be there to show them the gospel. Instead of pointing fingers of blame and injecting politics into this, I suggest that we pray for the President, Mayor Nagin, Governor Blanco, General Honore, Governor Barbour, and all those in leadership.

People are asking a lot of questions about why it took so long to get help into these places. I'm not going to try to answer that because I don't know the answer. But I am also not going to take the bait from rabid reverends telling us that it's all about race. I don't believe that. That's race politics. America is the most generous contributor to aid projects all around the world. Most of the recipients of U.S. aid are not white people. Communications, or lack of it, is one very important factor that has made a bad situation worse. People cannot call the authorities and inform them of their whereabouts when the communication system is down. When streets are flooded, that limits mobility. I'm going to give our leaders the benefit of the doubt. Remember what the Bible says, "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." (Matthew 12:36)