Searching for Solutions Among Bureaucratic Bullshit

What can I do? What can I do? I am constantly asking myself this question as I am reminded of my brothers and sisters suffering from the many facets of the destruction left by Hurricane Katrina. As you all know there are countless challenges that the survivors have to face each day – food, shelter, employment, finding loved ones, identifying the dead, rebuilding. All day I ask myself, “what can I do?” I feel so hopeless on many levels. I wish I could build safe and affordable homes for every displaced family. I wish I could reunite every family. I wish I could rebuild the roads and revitalize each broken community. I want to give a huge, warm, and comforting hug to everyone hurting. I desire for us as a family of humanity to learn what can happen when we are ill-prepared and when we discount the ramifications of poverty and sin.

My sister & friends arrived in our homestate just this morning and when she gets her bearings she’ll write some entries documenting her experience in Baton Rouge, LA. Relief efforts down there are fragmented, drowned in bureaucratic and organizational politics/bullshit, and disorganized. So much still needs to be done. I’ll upload some pictures as well.

My strongest sentiments lie with Kanye’s remarks. They basically sum up my analysis of the entire situation thus far. I am not sure when or if the legacy of this event will diverge from his passionate statements. http://www.deadlykatrina.com/Kayne-West-Slams-Bush.wmv

His "unpatriotic" approach and boldness reminds me of the time one of my best friends was seeking employment with an intellegence agency. I was serving as a character reference for him/her and I needed to give them my social security number. In response I said the wildest, most random, and generationally unacceptable phrase every uttered by a then-bohemian wild child, "I hate the pigs!". It was random and not called for but it really spoke to what I felt. Kanye is my brother for life for being so bold.