Tongues of Fire V.S. The American Soul

What a hurricane can do to a city, the tongue can do to a nation or the world. Within days of the Katrina catastrophe, powerful, influential individuals began to open their mouths and add to the misery that followed a natural disaster. A whole city was under water, people were terrified and in danger, and these inept individuals vociferously and without concern for temperament or leadership, vomited their contempt and ill-will against our nation. The President was called a racist and genocidal, and the national guard was accused of arriving to kill the predominate black citizens of New Orleans.

The finger wagging began before the masses could be rescued; media hysteria and emotionalism guided truth rather than self-control and leadership. The "actions" of the average American was quite different. Individuals risked their own lives, gave from their own pockets, and set out to save their fellow Americans (not refugees), from the devastation. The state of Texas opened wide and took in over 250,000 Americans who had nowhere to go. Churches even worked with local bars to raise money for relief, and a people from every race, religion, and ethnicity worked together to save their fellowman.

I am now convinced that it is by the average American which our nation should be judged, and not by the self proclaimed or elected leaders of our nation. We are capable of putting aside our many differences for the common belief that human life is worth saving. This is the great decency of our nation, and it may be the very attribute that allows us to overcome the pathetic and contemptuous tongue and finger waggers that chew and naw their way to power. While Americans serve those in desperate need, power mongers abuse tradgedy for the sake of their ideologies. These useless power beggars share nothing of the American soul, that is now at work doing God's will.

TOTT