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In fact! My entire family still lives along the bayous, and they all -had- to raise their houses in order to keep their home insurance. (Another post-hurricane gripe: The Road Home program was supposed to fund all these house raisings, and went bankrupt before they could pay out, leaving hundreds without the funds to save their homes / insurance policies.)
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Holy intimate partner abuse 101, Batman! Someone needs to write a long, indignant letter, but I'm still too full of turkey.
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I can't get behind the stringy extensions and raccoon eyes, tho.
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Meryl Streep, I love you. That quote sums up much of why, apart from your talent.
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From the article:
To most residents, the construction is simply good news. "It’s hard living here now, but it’s going to be worth it," said Melba Leggett-Barnes, a cafeteria worker, who is concerned about crime in the neighborhood. The lack of commercial activity is also disappointing. "We used to be able to go to the corner store," she said. "Now we don’t have a grocery; we don’t have a laundry."
This is a legitimate complaint, especially for their area. Consider that people living in lower-income housing don't have reliable transportation (and New Orleans' public transit isn't great)... BUT, maybe it'll come together in good time.
We are all just grateful that someone is doing something.
Also, I had a slight chuckle at the thought of the lower Ninth becoming a "tourist attraction."
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I'm very home proud, and it feels like Katrina's impact is poorly understood by people who don't live in the soup, you know?
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Was this the case?
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It is about a white family who helped a black teenager, but it is also based on a true story/bestselling book so I have a hard time reading too much into the races of the characters. They also make a pretty big point of the fact that he was struggling in school because of structural factors and not that he was stupid.
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Also, "based on a true story" does not equal documentary, and does not give anything a pass.
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@lisas: I had qualms with the trailer, too, but I grew up in the South, and I didn't see anything inaccurate in the portrayal of the self-congratulatory white characters (especially the scene where the rich women are sitting around a table, talking about all the good they're doing). I'm hoping the movie will take a look at lot of the assumptions and blind privilege that I saw every day growing up. I may be hoping for too much.
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I really think people should see the movie before calling it racist.
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