Political WavesCommentary on the latest political, cultural, social, and sporting events.What We Learned from Katrina- September 14, 2005 The long-term significance of Hurricane Katrina has been summed up with simple eloquence by Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine: "Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster. It goes without saying that the recent disaster on the Gulf Coast turned a powerful microscope on the nations social ills. The shame that Americans have been experiencing in Katrinas aftermath is both deep and broad in scope. The core cause of this shame was the recognition that we could not...http://journals.aol.com/jeffrowan111/PoliticalWaves/entries/2005/09/14/what-we-learned-fro... |