KATRINA:
A CALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY

Dear Editor,

President Bush and his spin team seem to have more defense strategies than the National Football League. The real shame is that they continuously find themselves on the defense for a consistent series of malignant decisions that injure, wrong or otherwise offend the nation, or world at large.
After an array of bipartisan criticism for the disastrous, inadequate and deadly response to Hurricane Katrina’s strike on American citizens, it appears the bush team has a new plot: label the call for accountability “finger pointing”.
While aimless finger pointing and unsupported blame is, indeed, detrimental, nothing could be more healthy and nutritious for the nation than a return to holding those accountable.
As a group, we are incessantly stereotyped. Not surprisingly, this fact of Black life in America held true during the media coverage of the hurricane’s aftermath. One of the prevailing verbal caricatures of us is that we are a loud and vociferous people. This time let it be so- let the entire world hear our collective, tireless and unified demand for unfiltered accountability.


Dortell Williams
Lancaster, CA


The Los Angeles Sentinel, September 29, 2006: A6