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A Gumbo of Blame for the New Orleans Debacle
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The Sept. 3 letters about Hurricane Katrina were a Rorschach test for observers of the national scene.
One writer saw looting, while another saw people grabbing necessary goods to survive.
One letter writer saw an administration with fatally skewed priorities while another saw Democrats opportunistically attacking a political "soft spot."
Some saw the long-anticipated outcome of environmental and policy mistakes, while others looked past human outcomes to focus on the patterns of natural forces.
Essentially, the wind, rain and subsequent high waters ripped away the everyday social facade, revealing the raw anatomy of our system. The misery from Katrina will last for decades. However, those who knowingly benefit from the status quo confidently expect that the mechanisms that ordinarily obscure the daily reality of homelessness, racism and institutional neglect will be functioning smoothly again within weeks at most.
LARRY YATES
Maurertown, Va.
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