Not Propogating Apathy

This post was submitted by Mustafa Abdur-Rahim:

I was talking the other day to a friend who is an evacuee from Tulane. He wasn't too stressed out about his situation, and he didn't express a lot of feeling about New Orleans or its people. Granted his home is in California, but I feel he is separating himself from Hurricane Katrina as just one of his life's experiences. It didn't seem to him like a big challenge to overcome. I wonder if the same will happen to people who were really tied to New Orleans, the people who actually lived there. This wouldn't be good at all. If people who evacuated from Katrina don't feel like those who are wanting to help, then they might simply give up and join so many of us in our apathy.