Here I am, once again...

Not "torn into pieces," but in the IT Lab. Whoa, it's different to be here once again after such a long time.

I don't know what to think about Katrina. A million homeless people. The inefficiencies of the Federal government. There is a feeling that there is something wrong, yet no one can really find where the source lies. I think perhaps it lies within us. In the New York Times, I saw an article that compared the emergency management protocols of Virginia and New Orleans/Louisiana. What seemed most important to me was that in the case of Virginia, though they maybe forceful, the thought is thinking about the safety of those who are in harm's way. Not just those who can leave or those who have the ability to leave. There's busses that are set-up to run people out of neighborhoods--those who don't have cars or aren't physically capable of leaving danger areas; as well as having a list of people who don't own cars. It's even a 'republican' area! Heart-less, no.

What bothers me though, is that we've know that these areas are where there is mass poverty. Where they live is mass, minority poverty too.