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To: saveliberty
Great post.

Here's more:

***.........HOUSTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - In the last week, Joseph Brant lost his apartment, walked by scores of dead in the streets, traversed pools of toxic water and endured an arduous journey to escape the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in his hometown New Orleans.

On Sunday, he was praising the Lord, saying the ordeal was a test that ended up dispelling his lifelong distrust of white people and setting his life on a new course. He said he hitched a ride on Friday in a van driven by a group of white folks.

"Before this whole thing I had a complex about white people; this thing changed me forever," said Brant, 36, a truck driver who, like many of the refugees receiving public assistance in Houston, Texas, is black.

"It was a spiritual experience for me, man," he said of the aftermath of a catastrophe...*** Source

42 posted on 09/16/2005 3:59:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Thank you for that post :-)


69 posted on 09/16/2005 4:26:37 AM PDT by saveliberty ("The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop." - PJ O'Rourke)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Let's hope that there are many, many transformations due to this tragedy......

Afterall, hope is stronger than any hurricane.


201 posted on 09/16/2005 10:21:07 AM PDT by GeorgeW23225 ("Grow your own dope. Plant a liberal")
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