The Urban Surgeon's blog by Bilal, has a variety of interesting and provocative entries. As you enter this blog you are presented with a picture of a surgery in process. This is a fitting portrayal and analogy of a city going through the necessary steps to repair many of its injuries that have long been neglected. In so doing, it is restoring the health of some of its neighborhoods to vibrant and productive communities. An unfortunate comparison, albeit a brief one, could be the long term neglect of one of America's once great cities, which is that of Detroit, now being called "Notown". To further this analogy, there maybe no surgery that could repair the injuries that Detroit has sustained.
One of Bilal's interesting blogs is a poem entitled, Chicago, written by Carl Sandburg, a surgeon through poetry. He had grown, over the years, increasingly concerned with the plight of the American worker and has written approximately 55 poems just on Chicago. A provocative entry by Bilal is his entry on Hurricane Katrina. The picture alone is a telling reminder of one of the many struggles people had to endure. As Bilal had notes, "It just goes to show how unorganized things can be. No one would think that this could happen in such a developed country as the United States. But, I guess that just goes to show that almost anything is possible". Yes, anything is possible as for the failure to humankind, but what is also possible is for "surgery" to repair Louisiana to its neighborhoods again.
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