Within the unimaginable destruction of Hurricaine Katrina, somehow politics and social issues seem to sneak through. It seems impossible that in a country such as the U.S. that there is this magnitude of chaos in one of the counties most popular cities.

The former Mayor of New Orleans summed up their condition as being like an "animal". And though no one could stop a natural disaster such as this from occurring, what could have been prevented is the number of people who are suffering.

Government officials must have anticipated that despite giving evacuation orders for Louisiana residents, there would be thousands who would not be able to leave because they have no means to leave their home, or nowhere to go. What I don't understand is why action wasn't taken before the hurricane hit cities like New Orleans. Why didn't the countless buses that are now making their way to Houston with survivors arrive before hand. Why wasn't the National Guard brought in before to rescue people who would essentially have no where to go to escape the flooding, but the roofs of their homes.

And why, of all things, is the majority of the desperate survivors Black?

Many say that this is why aid has been so slow in getting to the troubles cities; that if the people were wealthy White people, there wouldn't have been time to herd people into a stadium, because the arrangements to have them leave the area would have already been put in place.

That could be true. In fact I believe it's likely to be true. But since those people had the means to escape the wrath of Katrina, there is no possibility of finding an answer to that.

The other side to the story is that the majority of the New Orleans populations consists of Blacks, so it may not be a deliberate, but still it makes no sense.

Every news channel I flipped to, every time I opened up my Internet homepage, I was updated on the conditions of the survivors and given more grisly details about stories. About families having lost a parent, or having to put all their worldly possessions into one garbage bag while their only home was drowned.
How is it possible for this to happen in a place where billions of dollars are spent trying to save a sacred freedom in another country, while that same funding seems to lack, or be inexplicably delayed in their own homeland. So much for "Homeland Security".

I guess it'd be easy to blame Bush, but what exactly do you blame him for? I'm sure there are tons of other people below his position who are in charge of disaster relief and are able to make decisions that allowed buses, helicopters and other aid to be deployed earlier.

At the moment, and probably in the future, there'll be no resolution to this. In the meantime we're forced to idly sit by and watch the anarchy and chaos with our heads shaking in sympathy. I believe right now the only organization accepting donations is The Canadian Red Cross.