He would have memories of that horrible night until the lord calls him home. |
I want my mother back, I will never have her. |
No one is going to tell me it wasn't a race issue. Yes, it was an issue of race. Because of one thing: when the city had pretty much been evacuated, the people that were left there mostly was black. |
This is how we made it: We slept next to dead bodies, we slept on streets -- at least four times, next to human feces and urine. |
We saw buses, helicopters and FEMA trucks but no one stopped to help us. We never felt so cut off in all our lives. |
We were abandoned. City officials did nothing to protect us. |
We were cursed when we asked for help for our elderly. We had guns aimed at us by the police who were supposed to be there to protect and serve. They made everybody sit on the ground with their hands in the air, even babies. |
You believe what you want. |