LAST ZEITOUN POST

This book was awsome. It revealed America's inability to help New Orleans simply because it wasn't the first priority. But usually when a whole town is under water, it takes first priority to help anyone out of the city and rebuild it as fast as humanly possible. This was an eye opener because not only was the reader shown the negligance of the U.S government but also the racism and the rights of the people being taken away just because they're town is destroyed. These people aren't refugees. They still are citizens of the United States of America and the fact that the governement and police/army ext. ignored the rights of the people? Not only that but they took days weeks to actually start providing care and help. Katrina is a huge mess that the U.S will have to live with. Does our government only care about us this much? That is this were to happen to Chicago it would take weeks for help to actually come? Its the governments duty to help the people in a time of crisis like Katrina and the fact that they didn't try helping the people of New Orleans head of heel is shameful to me. Don't even get me started with FEMA. What where they even doing? In this book Zeitoun was captured and taken to a jail simular to Guantanimo Bay and then sent to Hunt in complete solitude. What are they doing imprisoning people? I thought they were supposed to be putting they're back into helping the people on the front lines down in the city with the people evacuating any people alive and helping any animals or people to find safety. Our country shouldn't be represented that way but if something like this happens again I never want to see the negligance the government had during this crisis. It will make me hurt to see that.