shakran

I've had just about enough of this. Your lack of sensitivity (and the lack of sensitivity displayed by others who are hopping on your bandwagon) is appalling.

You guys don't seem to understand the situation these people are in. They started out before the hurricane with next to nothing. The poverty in New Orleans is unlike almost anywhere else in this country. The crappiest ghetto in Chicago or Milwaukee has people who are financially much better off than many of the people living in NO. These are people who struggle to have enough money to put even a little food on the table. That tiny little rundown house is all they have and now they're losing that too. These people are now doomed to spend the rest of their lives homeless because they couldn't afford insurance on their house and even if they could, it didn't cover flooding. They cannot afford to buy a new house. They cannot afford even the cheapest rent on an apartment. And now someone's asking them to leave the only thing they still possess. That's NOT an easy thing to do. Many would rather die, or at least think right now that they'd rather die, than leave that house.


The fact that you're posting on the internet indicates that you're economically infinitely better off than these people, which means you cannot possibly understand their situation. You cannot understand poverty at that level unless you live it, or at the very least live among it so that you are exposed to what they go through.

I can understand being frustrated that someone does not want to leave their house to get to whatever refugee camp has been set up for him, but I cannot condemn them for thinking the way they do.