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Basically, from my understanding, someone asked him a question as to where in New Orleans it is the worst, where it's horrible, et cetera. That fact that he points out the way socioeconomics were BEFORE katrina is amazing. I sort of feel like no one has ever addressed this point.
"...That's the helpless part. There is no direct NOLA spot to make sure the
refugees get this stuff NOW!
For now direct them to the Red Cross. But what is most important is to
educate people on the inhuman desperate situation my hometown folks
are in. Let them know these are people from an unfair educational and
social system that crippled their efforts to evacuate our city.
Let them know these are poor people that have been treated like third world citizens and now it became 200,000 times worst. They are homeless, hungry, thirsty, tired and broken. AND THAT WAS BEFORE THE STORM.
Ask yourself what would you do without food, water, shelter and death all
around you? And there is no hope.
There was a young girl who gave birth to twins under the overpass yesterday. Because of the conditions, of not even the basics, she lost them both. She may die soon too from stress and lack of basic needs like food, water, shelter.
New Orleans has offered so many cultural influences to the world - jazz, blues, Mardi Gras, Voodoo Fest, Jazz Fest, but that is overlooked. Did you even know that the state of Louisiana provides 25% of the US’s oil?
New Orleans citizens are NOT violent looters. They are 2005 third world
refugees in a first class America. Over 70% are black and they have shown us that we have never and will never be true citizens of a nation we helped to build. Even to our death as it inhumanly plays out for the world to see.
They are sending in thousands of troops to maintain a no tolerance for
the looting. Ask yourself this, will each officer have a water bottle
and sandwich for a possible refugee? But there is no doubt they will have a bullet if we get out of line. Ya feel me?”
and how about kanye's "bush doesn't care about black people"? i pretty much love him.