Reply #21: Rev. Jesse Jackson is actually DOING something about this!

[NorthernSpy]

From the article:

On Friday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson decried the lack of local labor taking part in the cleanup and said his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition planned to bus 600 residents from shelters around the country back to New Orleans to be matched with jobs and housing.

The caravan is to depart Monday from Chicago and travel to shelters in St. Louis, Memphis, Jackson, Miss., and Mobile, Ala. It should arrive in New Orleans on Tuesday. Jackson said residents will be housed in hotels and trailers and on military bases and would get help obtaining construction and service jobs.

Yes! This is a good idea. This effort helps to provide the organization that has been lacking. Thank God there are people who don't want to see the displaced shut out of their own future, and who are willing to DO something about it.


Of course, we can expect to see these workers collectively slandered, no matter what they do. I suspect that they could rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem overnight with their bare hands, and they would still get slandered as lazy, ungrateful incompetents.

Plainly, the survivors have some enemies. The same people who spread that false "I tried to help ungrateful evacuees" chain email will not be convinced to stop defaming the people they hate. But that is no reason not to have many efforts like this one. We will carry on in spite of that sort of thing!