insightful comments from another blog i frequent:
Bad things happen, and it brings out all the ugly we keep hidden day to day or it brings out the good we didn’t know was there. And if you’re the one that’s suffering, you don’t have much time for contemplation. You’re just trying to survive.
I also hope that it leads us to ask some questions as well – not just why it was mostly the poor black people in New Orleans who got stranded, but why 27% of the city was living below the poverty line in the first place. As we hear about the doctors and nurses in New Orleans hospitals who worked without sleep to treat the sick without medicine or electricity or running water, I hope we ask some questions about why so much of the world lacks access to basic health care. As tens of thousands of refugees crowd stadiums that were built for football teams and we try to figure out what to do with them, I hope we think about the millions of refugees in the world with no place to call home. For the people of Darfur, the Reunion arena would be a huge step up.
Most of the desperation in the world didn’t arrive like a storm blowing in off the ocean. It grew out of the ground slowly, and it will take a lot of work over a long period of time to root it out.
Most of it will not be televised.
posted by Kelly @ 4:20:00 PM
1 Comments:
so true. i find myself thinking about that when i hear so many people say "this should not happen in america..."
no, it shouldn't. nor should it happen anywhere else. i only pray that destruction as massive as this will open people's eyes to what so many experience DAILY in other parts of the world....it doesn't seem real until it is on our doorsteps.
thanks for posting this.
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