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16864, wow, glad i didn't miss this one.... Posted by hdub, Sun Sep-11-05 08:35 AM
this idea is amazing and well said:
>them levvies broke long time ago >& them poor people been drownin >survivin >floatin' on make shift jobs
and then throw in this notion--
>shuck & jivin >for us camera clickin tourists >tossing quarters in the wishing well of their eyes >
for me this was a completely new perspective on katrina
honestly i been thinking a lot , but it's just so overwhelming i havent been able to get past the basic facts of what happened--- this piece really digs deep
and the closer is great
>& it has never been a secret > >that they lived below >sea level >only protected by hope >that some day >things would change >drastically.
just a side note- my uncle his ex wife and my cousin- his daughter, and at one point my grandma work pleasing the tourists in jackson square
thankfully we've recently found them and they made it out to alabama
they're all white
i know that overwhelmingly this issue affected the black community, but lets not forget that a lot of the problems in this fucked up society we're living in that are regarded as race issues are also heavily affected by class
poor people are at best second class citizens in the us regardless of race- beinng a minority only makes matters worse for them
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