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Post by Tara on Sept 5, 2005 21:56:20 GMT -5
So are you saying that the poor made a bad decision?
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Post by dianaholberg on Sept 6, 2005 7:26:54 GMT -5
I said what I'm saying. Everyone should make their own decisions using the good judgment God gives us, and accept responsibility when the consequences come.
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Post by Tara on Sept 6, 2005 8:02:22 GMT -5
I want to include this article I found. It's a commentary by Anne Rice. I really like what she's done with it. Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans?By ANNE RICE La Jolla, Calif. WHAT do people really know about New Orleans? Do they take away with them an awareness that it has always been not only a great white metropolis but also a great black city, a city where African-Americans have come together again and again to form the strongest African-American culture in the land? The first literary magazine ever published in Louisiana was the work of black men, French-speaking poets and writers who brought together their work in three issues of a little book called L'Album Littéraire. That was in the 1840's, and by that time the city had a prosperous class of free black artisans, sculptors, businessmen, property owners, skilled laborers in all fields. Thousands of slaves lived on their own in the city, too, making a living at various jobs, and sending home a few dollars to their owners in the country at the end of the month. ( continue) |
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Post by PhantomsPandora on Sept 6, 2005 8:24:11 GMT -5
I knew it was only a matter of time before she wrote something on the subject, but she's wrong. The american people have not abandoned them. We're taking care of them here in Texas.
Anne's novels were the first reason I got interested in NOLA. That and a friend at 14 describing masks and mardi gras.. I always wanted to go there, next summer, you know..when I have a bit more money....that's how that story went. Then I'd have my father going "I've been there, it's trashy, you don't want to go".(He's also said that about Paris, and what I say about that is you were lucky enough to have the money to make that observation) But I saw stories in cemeteries above ground, the French Quarter, stories ..real stories there. So I can identify with the feeling that a lot of people have. But they're just buildings, and people are far more important.
I don't watch a lot of television, mostly it's the internet I read news from. The radio station I mentioned? They're not NPR. They're just a talk radio station that's not even a political talk station they're just for fun and what not.
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