from nolanotes blog an entry about memories of deciding to return home to New Orleans after Katrina. She writes about an encounter in Thanksgiving of 2005 with a person who shares the feelings a seemingly large number of people in this country have:
That Thanksgiving, we traveled to Taos, NM. We were still bruised from Katrina but brave enough to venture out. A clerk in a store inquired where we were from. “New Orleans?” he snarled with a sneer, “I don’t know why they are bothering to rebuild. It’s not worth my tax dollars.”
I don't think I'll ever be able to understand how so many still hold so much malice towards their own countrymen.
But read the total post here. Her answer to that shallow minded clerk is worth the read.
Blogging from Slidell, Louisiana about loving life on the Gulf Coast despite BP and Katrina
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That fact that someone could make that statement just floors me. I have heard similar remarks here in Oklahoma.
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