Posted on 10/02/2005 9:00:15 AM PDT by Liberty Valance
OXFORD, Miss. - Actor Morgan Freeman opened a star-studded benefit concert for hurricane victims Saturday, telling a national television audience that the state he calls home "will rise again" from the ruins of the storm's destruction.
Freeman, who lives in Tallahatchie County in northern Mississippi, described families living in tents on sites where their homes used to stand before Hurricane Katrina. But he assured viewers that the people would bounce back.
"We will rise again," the teary eyed Oscar winner said. "Mississippi crawled out of the rubble and helped their neighbors and got about the business of surviving."
Former "Designing Women" co-stars Delta Burke and Jean Smart manned the celebrity phone bank, alongside actor Gerald McRaney, a Mississippi native, and actress Marilu Henner.
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Mississippi is adult driven while LA is just corrupt.
That's nice to hear.
The difference between low life Democrat scum (Blanco, Nagin, Landrieu, Jefferson) from Louisiana and the Republican leadership of Florida, Mississippi and Alabama!!!
I watched some of it - did you see the part about how the Vietnamese community has been completely destroyed in Biloxi? Those poor people. I had to sit thru Whoopie Goldberg interviewing the one guy but it was worth it.
What I saw the other night, however, that was interesting, was Chris Rock and his wife delivering food and actually digging deep and helping... I never liked Rock, but he really didn't do an interview for this, but rather got caught on camera and he went up slightly in my estimation after seeing this....
Yes, I saw that too. Some of the footage was heartbreaking. Actually, Whoopi did a pretty good job...kept her politics in check...at least on camera. She was right about hurricanes not discriminating by economic boundries...nobody was left unhurt if they were in the path.
Hats off to the organizers and performers. The most entertaining I have ever seen. Great talents, material, and attitude. I was moved to donate (again) by their efforts.
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