Spike Lee At Roy Thompson Hall Tonight!

Spike, I heard you were going to New Orleans to shoot on Katrina, race and dysfunction. I am a 42 year old white driver with a "Passenger bus" endorsement from Rio Rancho New Mexico. I rolled out Thursday before labor day after two city mayors offices, Rio and Albuquerque turned me down for a bus to drive. The catholic church on my street I used to attend turned me down as well as Legacy Church Albuquerque which has a dozen good old school busses.I got bad info from Greta Vat Sistern on Fox about busses with no drivers in Baton Rouge.I checked in there friday afternoon before Labor Day and had my liscence checked and there were only three or four busses running people back and forth, truth was, there wasnt enough busses, another driver, large black fellow named Craig took me on a run and we saw the rest of busses where he had stolen (taken) his from and they were underwater to the seats as the water had risen from the day before. Anyway, we got to Superdome and people were being held back, pushed shoved, by the natl. guard, only the elderly and people with babies were allowed to go to Baton. A lady with a dead baby got on our bus and it was one of the most heart-wrenching things I have ever seen when we got to LSU triage center at Baton R. and they gave her a shot and took her dead baby. Spike LSU was only 1/3 full of victims. I believe they didnt want the people there by and large. I found the doctor in charge of triage and had her write me a letter, "give this man a bus to help us, we have checked his liscence and credentials and he is qualified." I also have EMT trainig, Spike making me more than qualified to have done some good. My letter was also signed by Louisiana State Trooper officer Vin whom checked my drivers liscence. I headed back east and found a field full of school busses visible from I-10 in Iowa Louisiana just east of Lake Charles, I climbed on the biggest of them and got it tartedwith one of the keys on my big ring. I got about a mile and was on the feeder climbing back onto I-10 east when their was a Iowa police car with his lights going chasing me, it escalated to two local cops and two Calcassieu Parish Sherriffs cars. I told those guys they should let me go as I had orders from a State Trooper and the doctor in charge of triage and it was an emergency. They didnt care I heard one of them say "those niggers aint getting any help from you son." And they bounced me off the hood of their cop car and I spent 5 days and 5 nights in the Calcassieu Parish detention center. 9Labor day weekend Friday nite thru Weds nite) I learned of what the cops were calling "the roundup" as there was a curfew in effect and it was the who's who of all the area black men in that jail. I was the only white guy in a cell of about 7 black guys and once they knew me and what I was in there for...Well lets just say I was a lot safer in the cell with them than with the cops and sherriffs who violated my written orders from the Louisiana Stae level and jailed me. Spike the fact that Lake Charles area and Calcassieu Parish is about 90 miles from where any damage was and the fact that they had many assets (busses) that should have been rolling to help evacuate people trapped and dying to the Houston Astrodome, and the fact that Louisiana refused to help those Americans in New Orleans that had just lost everything they had and lives of family and friends as well, these things shame me as an American. I still am shocked by what I saw down there. When my 5 days were over and district attorney Mancuso and Atty. Michelle Breaux had gotten me out (both black Americans) I was determined to spend those same 5 days doing what I could to help in the Astrodome in Houston, which is my hometown and place of my birth. I worked for the Reliant Energy Information Technology crew who moved in their own computers and built a network at their own expense (bugzilla) I made announcements on the Astrodome P.A. and I assisted with the phone bank and computer system linking many seperated family members including one 3 year old boy in the Dome named Aaron Glover to his mother. I was thruly blessed to have been a part of this effort. My thing was cigarettes, and the Old Albuquerque Bus theif never ran out. I came to the dome 5 days straight with a fresh carton and people with no money whatsoever were very appreciative when they saw me smoking, asked to bum one, and recieved a whole pack. I prayed with so many people down there I cant even begin to tell you every single story I heard from the 5 days in Calcassieu jail to the 5 days at the dome. People were treated badly the day I got to the dome and I talked to the Judge Echols, in charge, and the gates were never locked on them again like that morning I arrived. I grabbed his hand as if to shake it and would not let go and as there cameras around he listened to every thing I said. I know I made a difference at the Houston Astrodome. I know the National Guard kept the peace down there between the Harris County Sherrifs and Houston Police and the guests from New Orleans, whose homes and city had been lost in Katrina. Some of the Houston cops were inciting trouble, and that was indeed racist. Houston has an I.Q. limitation for police, if it's above 75, you don't qualify. The National guard, Sgt White and Private Patane and each every one of the 75 or so rest of them kept the local cops off of those poor people. FEMA would start giving out cards to people then when the line got long, they would stop! Four or five damned days straight! On the nightly news they claimed they "ran out of volunteers to distribute the cards (money)." Spike a white guy pointing out racism is not popular, but God wont allow to go quietly about this. I just saw on CNN that our military C-130's are dropping food and medical supplies to quake victims in Pakistan 3 days after that disaster. I ask you , Spike, why did it take 7 or 8 days to do the same for our fellow Americans in New Orleans? Spike the Enquire reported Pres. Bush took up the bottle again during Katrina. That doesnt surprise me as it is hard to squelch your conscious when you know you are doing wrong. Bush pirated the war for the profit of Halliburton and the Katrina relief/rebuilding effort is being pirated by Bush's wealthy constituents in the same fashion (Haley Barber and big hotel and casino interests) Just watch as whole neighborhood that were residential are bulldozed and rebuilt commercial and sold under eminent domain law to rich developers. It's dirty Spike, racism is a part, but big money drives the government as well, dont forget this aspect of it. My baby brother says the government compromised (blew) the levy in the middle of the storm. Yes, he is a conspiracy theorist and their is no video of that so who really knows?
That second storm missed Houston where all the news reports said it was going, and turned to hit those racist peckerwoods in the southwestern part of Louisiana that refused to send in even one of their many school busses. I can not help but wonder if God was directing that storm. I can not help but wonder why God turned that second storm (Rita) away from the city with the biggest heart (Houston) and plasterd the part of Louisiana and east Texas where the racists whom refused their fellow Americans help did reside. I can't help but wonder Spike.