[2ndDivisionVet]

I was a Biloxi Katrina survivor and worked with the Louisiana survivors as a supervisor at the unemployment office in Dallas, Texas. Almost every word in that first paragraph is all too true.

[wardaddy]

I don’t agree that poor people are helpless folks no can’t resist too many chips or too much McDonald’s dollar menu

They don’t resist too much cheap food because they don’t have the discipline to

And that lack of discipline pervades their lives and causes them to be fat and frequently lazy too

Ive been on the coast a lot since February dealing with a friend at Driftwood nursing home in Gulfport who was in hospice till this morning

I think there are less fat folks there than in middle tennessee which is saying something

In any event it’s not about lack of availability to less fattening food

They simply won’t resist too much food

We are so so so fat outside the upper classes where there is pressure to not be fat

My ancestry a few hours north of Biloxi where dirt poor and laden with butter and lard and sausages and fattty food galore

But they did more than collect disability and sell pain pills and eat too much cheap fast food

They worked

[wardaddy]

I got off topic

Yes it’s true

Blacks are fat

And the whites who went in the super dome and convention center were tragically naive

I watche them go inside all laughing

I thought you guys are sure stupid

[wardaddy]

I was in ocean springs four days befor Katrina with friends who lived near the golf course on Biloxi bay on fairway court

Stilt house got flattened anyhow

Now they live up Wolf river behind Bay St Louis

Which bye I love...if i didn’t have a high school football star son right now I’d sell off and live on the water north of pass christian

Affordable even with deep water dock

I went through Camille just by the tracks off Rich Ave in 69

Learned my lesson well

The coast is still so bare isn’t it

[Rockingham]

Quite so. I went to college at Tulane in New Orleans and recognized an air of defeat and resignation in the Black people in New Orleans. In time, I realized that for me, New Orleans was temporary and exciting, but for them, New Orleans was a trap that they could not escape. The city offered but a dismal education and few opportunities for its massive Black underclass, while distance from other cities effectively stranded them.