The city was destroyed by the wild hurricane
But two homes were spared on one sunny lane.
Two young men lived in the homes side by side
With two different thoughts when so many died.
One saw the devastation and couldn’t believe it was real.
One saw the same and thought about what he could steal.
One helped injured neighbors find shelter, water and food.
One ransacked and looted, feeding only the chaotic mood.
Both men were almost identical. They could have been brothers.
They both were raised well by hard-working fathers and mothers.
But one chose to help his neighbors, the other chose only to steal
From people who had lost everything and were struggling to heal.
Some say such heartlessness is caused by poverty and oppression
And that entitlement is the only reaction to systemic depression.
But on this day, there were two men on the same economic level
And one worked with the angels while the other ran with the devil.
Why does one man feel deep compassion and the other only greed?
Why does one help people while the other just watches them bleed?
We can’t blame it all on poverty. No, it’s much more than that.
It's morality that makes one man an eagle and the other a rat.
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Moral poverty cost blacks in New Orleans
By Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson
( The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, and author of "Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America." )
September 21, 2005
"Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions:
What would you do???
What would you do if you were black???
Sadly, the two questions don't have the same answer.
To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly to protect them from danger. Then, able-bodied men would return to help others in need, as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the like.
For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second question. If you're black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city, you'll probably wait for the government to save you.
This was not always the case. Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic performance by the black community in a time of crisis would have been inconceivable. The first response would have come from black men. They would take care of their families, bring them to safety, and then help the rest of the community. Then local government would come in.
No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleansresidents had left the city, it was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and waited for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out good results.
Enter Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. Jackson and Farrakhan laid blame on "racist" President Bush. Farrakhan actually proposed the idea that the government blew up a levee so as to kill blacks and save whites. The two demanded massive governmental spending to rebuild New Orleans, above and beyond the federal government's proposed $60 billion. Not only that, these two were positioning themselves as the gatekeepers to supervise the dispersion of funds. Perfect: Two of the most dishonest elite blacks in America, "overseeing" billions of dollars? I wonder where that money will end up??
Of course, if these two were really serious about laying blame on government, they should blame the local one. Responsibility to perform legally and practically fell first on the mayor of New Orleans. We are now all familiar with Mayor Ray Nagin the black Democrat who likes to yell at President Bush for failing to do Nagin's job. The facts, unfortunately, do not support Nagin's wailing. As the Washington Times puts it, "recent reports show [Nagin] failed to follow through on his own city's emergency-response plan, which acknowledged that thousands of the city's poorest residents would have no way to evacuate the city."
One wonders how there was "no way" for these people to evacuate the city. We have photographic evidence telling us otherwise. You've probably seen it by now the photo showing 2,000 parked school buses, unused and underwater. How much planning does it require to put people on a bus and leave town, Mayor Nagin???
Instead of doing the obvious, Mayor Nagin (with no positive contribution from Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco, the other major leader vested with responsibility to address the hurricane disaster) loaded remaining New Orleansresidents into the Superdome and the city's convention center. We know how that plan turned out.
About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black Journalists, I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto within 10 years. The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly. Now I have to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos, rampant with theft, rape and murder.
President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks. Had New Orleans' black community taken action, most would have been out of harm's way. But most were too lazy, immoral and trifling to do anything productive for themselves.
All Americans must tell blacks this truth. It was blacks' moral poverty not their material poverty that cost them dearly in New Orleans. Farrakhan, Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated for they will only perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral corruption. New Orleans, to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be remade into a dependency-free, morally strong city where corruption is opposed and success is applauded. Blacks are obligated to help themselves and not depend on the government to care for them. We are all obligated to tell them so."
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Wanda
sorry, I just find iorny that the place in my fav song is flooded. I loved it.
... I hate people that can be so shallow and selfish like that, its amazing how many people there are that are like this in the world, its disturbing 
... If I could, I would rescue all those ppl that still need to be saved, it would never enter my mine to be so selfish as a rat... but sadly, there are ppl like that in this world. This poem is a Masterpiece, I hope it wakes the shallow up from their selfishness... 
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