Louisiana NCAAP President Ernest Johnson and sidekick Bob Brigham are doing what from many miles away looks to be remarakble work. The plan is to get evacuees to self-organize in the shelters in which they are staying. They can pick leaders who would then make decisions for the group on living conditions, what to do with the children, that sort of thing. Also, and very importantly, they want to make sure that those who were taken far away from New Orleans (as far away as Montana, Johnson says) can move back if they want to. The thinking is to make sure that they have a black voting base back there because some important decisions on the future of that city are gonna need to be made down there -- and elections to choose the area's leaders begin as early as February of next year. That right there is a smart humanitarian and political response to a horrible situation.