It doesn't surprise me that this Author was watching Fox news.
He is in SOME senses right about how this was an issue that has been brewing for decades now.
It happens when people become POOR and DESPERATE. These people were modern day slaves for the most part, and it is sick. All it took was something to break down the chains that society had put around them and we saw the true colors show.
People should be appalled at this. Yes, raping, looting, beating, stealing, that is appalling, but what DROVE THESE PEOPLE TO DO IT is WORSE! You have desperate people, with NOTHING now, what little they had in life is gone, so what do you expect them to do??? People in Iraq are given more respect then the poor in our own country. Part of another reason why we are so sick, we spend billions overseas for people who are not even our own citzens, but we leave an entire city like New Orleans to live in poverty?
That is why the federal response was so slow, it just was not a priority.
I don't know about any of you, but if I had no shelter, no food, nothing, I would do anything within my power to survive. It would get ugly. You just expect these people to calmly die without a struggle or fight??
Hopefully this serves as a wake up call that the country has things we need to fix. We are a community, a NATION, why do we let masses of people like this fall into such sub par living?
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