Dignity

by: los anjalis

Wed Sep 03, 2008 at 14:16:50 PM PDT

Joan Kelly reflects on Hurricane Katrina 3 years later:

I think of how dignity is not seen as a human rights issue, how the ability to not-feel humiliated and ashamed is not considered a basic need but rather a standard-of-living issue, for those who can afford what it takes to insure it.
I can't get it out of my head, and I am not over it, and I do not forgive this country for failing to be jolted into more love instead of less of it, afterwards.

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