Poverty and Racism are two most horrible social events that African Americans live with today in one of the strongest and powerful countries. Some people seem to care and are interested in struggling for changes. Alas, the majority still doesn’t care. One possible reason why does it happen is that the class and race of those people. Race gap seems never go away and racism, unfortunately, is still too evident in America society.

The most vivid example of people’s indifference for the black Americans was during the Hurricane Katrina, when many of our citizens were left behind to fend for themselves as hurricane stroked New Orleans. While those poor Americans struggled to stay alive, our ex-president has spent 2 days talking about prescription drugs, but in spite of that FEMA has been waiting nearly 4 days to reach the destination point. As per Paul Krugman who has reported to The New York Times the following: “By three to one, African-Americans believe that federal aid took so long to arrive in New Orleans in part because the city was poor and black. By an equally large margin, whites disagree.” That really sounds like an issue to me.

Over fifty years have passed since President Lyndon Johnson have declares the war against poverty and racism but we still see both in our present-day society. It is my firm believe it is time to re-organize our nation for those 2 troubles. Many people has opened their minds to those issues after witnessing the horrible results of Katrina, which means that we still have a chance to solve something about these problems. I hope President Obama and his stuff now realize that they need to do something about these problems. The time to act has come now.