Forsaken?......An editorial be Roger Stouff

[Elminster]

http://www.native-waters.com/ftos/11-30.htm

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America, have you forgotten us already?

There’s nothing changed, you know. Nothing’s better. Nothing’s fixed. There’s still more than a thousand dead and six thousand unaccounted for. The president arrived three months ago with enormous generators to light up New Orleans enough to promise us on television that the Gulf Coast would be rebuilt. Then they turned the generators off and they left and, well, there’s still no change here.

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Yet we spend $6 billion a month fighting for democracy in Iraq. We in Louisiana, who have hauled this country around on our collective backs since the first oil rig struck black gold south of Morgan City decades ago, aren’t we worth the same courtesy at least? At the very least?


About the Author:
Roger Emile Stouff is the son of Nicholas Leonard Stouff Jr., last chief of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana, and Lydia Marie Gaudet Stouff. He has been a journalist for 25 years and author of the award-winning column "From the Other Side" in the St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune. He currently resides on the Chitimacha reservation.

[unhappycamper]

1. The tragedy in NO will

most likely be regarded as a great American failure by future historians. It is a stain on our national psyche.

http://reneworleans.org/