Reply #33: yes, you are right, it is a huge huge deal no doubt abt it

[pitohui]

no, i DON'T believe too big a deal was made of 911 dead, i agree w. stephanie on this

however, the clearcut contrast w. how we react when yankees are killed out of the blue and how we react when southerners are killed makes it v. uncomfortable to me

the federal gov't simply refused to provide in timely fashion for recovery of our dead, and when the state, one of the poorest states went broke and had to cease body recovering, look how long the feds waited to start pitching in -- and now they are walking away having hardly done anything because of a dispute with double tree hotel? hell, if they had just put out a call asking for a place to stay, i bet they'd have tons of people volunteering to put them up

i can't honestly call it race hate, my three friends who died were white and well-to-do, and you are going to find many of the elderly killed in lakeview were white and well-to-do, this storm did not discriminate based on race or class

it just seems to me in the end that media puts a higher value on the life of a yankee even today and it's most frustrating, to hear the media coverage sometimes you would think all we provide are tabasco, titty bars, and jazz funerals, we are not here to be a colorful footnote to the "real" people of the nation, we ARE the real people of the nation, where would you be without our oil and gas, without our port, without our refineries?

well it's most frustrating to think that if you work hard and do something useful than you are considered to be of less value than the man who pushes paper for a financial institution

my proposal is that we honor and account for ALL of our dead, how hard is that?

per poster bosshog's favorite quote -- FEMA could screw up a one car funeral