L9 Tourism is Fuct

What can we say about a country, a people, that doesn't seem to care about average people? Doesn't care about death? Doesn't care about suffering or injustice or accountability? How is it that an area totally and utterly devastated thanks to human ignorance and stupidity can be so far from the hearts and minds of average Americans until some very attractive and famous individuals decide to make it their pet projects?


Are we for real? These two assholes can make everyone pay attention? It's not enough that 1,800 lives were snuffed out? Fucking drowned in their homes? Tried to survive for days/weeks in the rubble of their homes, their city, without medical help because our dumbass president and that asshole Brownie (the "head" of FEMA, who never had a single day of emergency relief experience) waited and pretended they didn't know Katrina would be a big deal? Nonsense.

And now, all of a sudden, tour vans, in the tens per day, more than ever, drive by (which, by the way, is ILLEGAL), taking pictures of the new Make It Right homes (so out of place, looking like country bumpkins lost in the big scary city), while all around them is evidence of a residential graveyard, complete with bare concrete slabs, empty lots, grass higher than a one-story building in some instances. Not to mention our Common Ground house, smack in the middle of the Make It Right installation, which people bypass as if we're not even here. CGR has been on the ground almost since DAY 1, doing the work, and more, that Brad and his money is involved in, sweating, getting eaten alive by mosquitoes, until recently living in squalor. Who the fuck is Brad Pitt? People don't care about human suffering unless Brad says so?

Sure, it's important for people to see what's going on and to tell their friends about it and to care. But seriously, L9 TOURISM IS FUCT. The human race is fuct. God damnit.