Katrina by Glenda Dicker/sun

Glenda's Katrina: acting black/playing blackness, is an article that makes you think. She is right about the fact that the media represented the displaced people as "dirty,poor,inarticulate,faceless population too stupid to heed the dictates of the powerful." The media showed numerous pictures and video footage of blacks suffering, dying, and with no hope. I don't understand how anyone, including blacks, can "act black". To me there is no such thing. However, to the media that's just what they constructed when playing the footage of blacks looting stores and trying to feed their family with food that had taken out of stores. I personally feel that the reason the aftermath of Katrina played out the way it did, was because the majority of "refugees" were black. Plain and simple, there is no way of getting around the fact that the reason they were not rescued sooner, and cared for in a expedient manner was because the color of their skin. It is unfortunate that it is the 21st century and we in America still have issues with race. All the years that have gone by since Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech, we still as people learned nothing from it. We still have hatred, racism,prejudice,and ignorance in us. I don't know how many more years it will take to eliminate those horrible things from us. There may not be enough years left on this earth, to eliminate such things.