Fifteen years ago now, Dali and I were in St. Louis. Tom and Adrianne had already evacuated north with Dali, because I was in Cadrieu when Katrina hit. I flew back mid-September. In this shot, Tom and Adrianne were getting ready to head back to New Orleans since their zip code had been cleared to be safe to return to the City. This was October.
This was the first time in my life, at 51 years old, when I personally experienced that our government does NOT care about "all" of us.
Today, it would be "any" of us.
Already then red vs. blue states, and always, the color of your skin; impacted the quality of help you got, if you got any at all.
I then watched in Ferguson in 2014. The Missouri National Guard was NOT sent to protect Ferguson and Dellwood shops and businesses, but were instead at the County Government Offices in Clayton-with nothing to do there except stand around and be ready to protect all those rich, white people, even though they were needed badly elsewhere!
Ferguson and Dellwood
were burning!
All of this, while law enforcement vehicles were lined up on Elizabeth Avenue in front of our family home AND low flying choppers were hovering overhead and beaming search lights everywhere!
And, here we are today with a very active hurricane season that has already decimated Lake Charles and now we have Hurricane Sally shooting straight for New Orleans.
There are "climate change fires" all up and down the length of the California coast and now Oregon.
Not to mention, the Corona Virus that has been left unchecked by this federal administration to rapidly engulf the United States.
The University of Washington now projects that we will reach 400,000 deaths by January 1, 2021.
That means between now and then, we will have doubled the number of Americans who have died.
These are individual souls. What about their families? What about their friends? What number would you multiply that 400,000 by-4, 10, 25, or more?
STOP!-PLEASE!
Wake up!
Pay Attention!
Think back to all that has happened and ask yourself:
Is the cavalry coming?
Let's face it: we are on our own!
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