Mississippi's Invisible Coast

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No matter what color you are or where you live it is hard to lose everything and have nowhere to go. It shouldn't be about race. Yes alot of the beach homes were expensive and owned by wealthy people but that doesn't make it any easier to lose your home, everything you ever worked for, pictures,clothing etc. It is devestating whether you are rich, poor, black, white. Not all of the MS coast is wealthy, go past the waterfront property and it is regular working class people of any race and there are also poor neighborhoods. Just the casinos being gone left countless displaced and unemployed and they aren't rich people otherwise they wouldn't be working there. Many of them also lost their homes. Same as in New Orleans. Bayou La Batre, AL is a lower income fishing community and I haven't heard much about them and they pretty devesated there too.
As someone who was in MS before, during, and after Katrina I think what it boils down to is what makes a better story and apparently New Orleans was the better story.

You are right, it SHOULDN'T be about race but it is unfortunately. So called leaders of the black communities garner a lot of attention and IMHO were the reason that primary focus and relief efforts went to NO. To these leaders, most of those people who lost their vacation homes were white people so who cares. Keep in mind this is from Jesse Jackson who once admitted to spitting in the food of white folks.

So you are correct, it was about the best story because the race warlords were there screaming that George W. Bush let everyone down. Never mind the absence of first responders, which is not the federal government.

Oh, let's not forget the legitimized Louis Farrakan who said that George W. Bush blew up the levees to keep white neighborhoods dry and drown a bunch of black folks.

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