A ping to wish you were here :~D
Thanks for that posting...I also, was greatly saddened to see some of the really nasty discourse on FR about Katrina...when we try to lump all people together, because of their race, or where they live, or what educational level they have reached, or what their financial status is, we do then avoid seeing the real people that are there...we cannot and do not know why people were caught up and in harms way caused by Katrina...
You know I am a white woman, my husband is a white man, we always worked and paid our own way, and tried to raise our two white boys right...a terrible series of incidents(the death of one of my children, job loss, mental illness), caused us to be on 'Welfare' for a few years....we felt saddend and shamed to have wound up like that, but there we were...dependent on a welfare check, food stamps, and Medicaid....we lived in a little 3 room shack during this time, we bought my remaining son what he needed to go to school and live his life as a child only because my husband and my self wore shoes with holes in them, and often skipped meals so that our son would have enough food...we were poor, and it was scarey...
Thankfully we worked our way out...and today are happy that we were able to provide our son with a college education, and me and the hubby are both retired with a nice nest egg for our senior years...but all those years ago, my family was in a bad position, and often felt desperate and hopeless...we did not give up, we knew what life before welfare was...but for many, for whatever reason, they remain poor and do not climb up...but had my family been in New Orleans in our welfare days, and had Katrina hit, we would have been one of all those families who needed assistance...and I would have greatly resented the nasty smart aleck remarks by many freepers, who think that they do know why some people are in a bad situation...
I also miss rdb3 and mhking...I think their departure is a great loss to FR...
Oh my!..I did not know...I am heartbroken.
Prayers for our FRiends to return.
Geez, you mean MHKING and RDB3 are gone? JUST DAMN. Those guys are worth 10x some of the people that are still here.
Say it ain't so. If so, I can understand. There is yet a lot of work to do. Give it time and come back. Please don't let a few tarnish so many....