I wanted to thank you for posting your video on the story about the lady stating Katrina was a "cleansing."
I am a Graduate student at Texas State in the Social Work program. I was deeply disturbed hearing the story you told.
I will save your video and share it with others in hopes that at least it will affect one other person....like you have done by sharing it......as I have been affected now.
I think some people just don't appreciate other human beings. They see them as expendable when many of them are employees or people just trying to get by in life. I think we as a society should actually stop funding people who behave like this. Society is making it possible for them to make the income to live in an expensive neighborhood. Why keep supporting them financially?
We struggle everyday and it is strange being where we are. A lot of people here have been very supportive but its been hard for myself and my kids to start all over again especially at this point in my life. I am essentially a stranger in a strange place coming from a place where most of the people I knew were people I grew up with. I was also in an accident right before Katrina hit and thats made it even more difficult but we are surviving.
Believe me not everyone is like that in the South. That woman sounded like a complete asshole. I am from the Bay Saint Louis area of Mississippi and the eyewall of the hurricane hit our neighborhood. I was suprised that many people didn't realize that there were several states that were affected by Katrina not just New Orleans. I have had to move away from my home because I lost everything.
THIS is a poem! THE poem! Transcribe those exact words! Bukowski was so right about the human race.Glad you put it back as I missed it the first time. Fav.5* LOL
having grown up in the south, i cringe whenever i hear racist comments, especially when they come from family members. the things that were said after Katrina were horrible. I don't hear them as much now, and I didn't hear as much regarding Haiti so I have hope that people are changing. Or at least keeping their mouths shut!
you have such a good heart and glad to see you back :)
I think that's the key point: when are they going to grow up and how?
Every day new human beings are coming into existence free from any bitterness or prejudices or old resentments or grievances.
But they also don't have any of the intellectual underpinnings for their good impulses--the impulse to love, the impulse to feel empathy. No defenses against the accumulation of resentments.
I think we have to remember that we have to teach each generation all over again.
And teaching doesn't happen by magic. It takes work.
I guess that's the great mystery. Should we focus our attention on teaching misguided adults what's wrong with the various forms of hate and indifference?
Or should we give up on adults, and just focus on children exclusively, i.e. better schools.
And God knows American schools could be better. Captive audience. What an opportunity.
The reality is that some people will always think this way. Society forms itself into groups/tribes/cliques and performs self-segregation all the time. What we need to do is to stop being shocked by it, which I believe is a form of ignorance in its own way, and understand that just because we encounter this kind of hate and bigotry that we have still come a long way, even if we still have a long way to go. Keep spreading the love and you'll have done your part to chip away at the stone. Peace.
I am glad you had the courage to put this back up. The courage to speak out loud a 'secret'. I've stood in enough moments to know a few things, and it still remains to shock me when I witness cruel ignorance. I believe we change things by becoming individually that which we wish to see in the world.
I wanted to thank you for posting your video on the story about the lady stating Katrina was a "cleansing."
I am a Graduate student at Texas State in the Social Work program. I was deeply disturbed hearing the story you told.
I will save your video and share it with others in hopes that at least it will affect one other person....like you have done by sharing it......as I have been affected now.
Thank you ..... thank you
Brandi Rivera
brandilrivera1 1 year ago
I think some people just don't appreciate other human beings. They see them as expendable when many of them are employees or people just trying to get by in life. I think we as a society should actually stop funding people who behave like this. Society is making it possible for them to make the income to live in an expensive neighborhood. Why keep supporting them financially?
msedillo1 1 year ago
We struggle everyday and it is strange being where we are. A lot of people here have been very supportive but its been hard for myself and my kids to start all over again especially at this point in my life. I am essentially a stranger in a strange place coming from a place where most of the people I knew were people I grew up with. I was also in an accident right before Katrina hit and thats made it even more difficult but we are surviving.
msedillo1 1 year ago
Believe me not everyone is like that in the South. That woman sounded like a complete asshole. I am from the Bay Saint Louis area of Mississippi and the eyewall of the hurricane hit our neighborhood. I was suprised that many people didn't realize that there were several states that were affected by Katrina not just New Orleans. I have had to move away from my home because I lost everything.
msedillo1 1 year ago
THIS is a poem! THE poem! Transcribe those exact words! Bukowski was so right about the human race.Glad you put it back as I missed it the first time. Fav.5* LOL
Caspar33 2 years ago
having grown up in the south, i cringe whenever i hear racist comments, especially when they come from family members. the things that were said after Katrina were horrible. I don't hear them as much now, and I didn't hear as much regarding Haiti so I have hope that people are changing. Or at least keeping their mouths shut!
you have such a good heart and glad to see you back :)
charlottepoet 2 years ago
I think that's the key point: when are they going to grow up and how?
Every day new human beings are coming into existence free from any bitterness or prejudices or old resentments or grievances.
But they also don't have any of the intellectual underpinnings for their good impulses--the impulse to love, the impulse to feel empathy. No defenses against the accumulation of resentments.
ReliableInsider 2 years ago
I think we have to remember that we have to teach each generation all over again.
And teaching doesn't happen by magic. It takes work.
I guess that's the great mystery. Should we focus our attention on teaching misguided adults what's wrong with the various forms of hate and indifference?
Or should we give up on adults, and just focus on children exclusively, i.e. better schools.
And God knows American schools could be better. Captive audience. What an opportunity.
ReliableInsider 2 years ago
lol
Cigarrock 2 years ago
The reality is that some people will always think this way. Society forms itself into groups/tribes/cliques and performs self-segregation all the time. What we need to do is to stop being shocked by it, which I believe is a form of ignorance in its own way, and understand that just because we encounter this kind of hate and bigotry that we have still come a long way, even if we still have a long way to go. Keep spreading the love and you'll have done your part to chip away at the stone. Peace.
NaturalTwentyFilms 2 years ago
I am glad you had the courage to put this back up. The courage to speak out loud a 'secret'. I've stood in enough moments to know a few things, and it still remains to shock me when I witness cruel ignorance. I believe we change things by becoming individually that which we wish to see in the world.
raindacerjen 2 years ago