Gather At The River

“Today, as the President comes to Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi for his ceremonial trip to look at the victims of the devastation, he would do well to have a plan more significant than a ceremonial tour.”

”His whole response is unacceptable.”

“How can blacks be locked out of the leadership, and trapped in the suffering?”

“It is that lack of sensitivity and compassion that represents a kind of incompetence.”

“There's a historical indifference to the pain of poor people and black people in this country.”

—Rev. Jesse Jackson

An indifference just a little bit shredded, today.

Poverty has always cut such clear lines. Privilege bought the means to turn away.

The flood like some dark baptismal rite—the left-behind rendered vividly human.

Shall we all join hands, while Rev. Jackson leads us. Leads us.