"Barbie Survives The Hurricane"
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Hurricane Katrina

  Katrina hit the Mississippi Coast the day before the levee broke in Louisiana and flooded the 9th Ward.

  The news media, focused on New Orleans, never mentioned how people all over Mississippi mobilized. Rednecks parked their trucks along the main roads, filled with food, ice, water, diapers, shaving cream, cat litter and pet food.

   I was in the line of cars at a standstill headed north. Junebug, my partner at the Foundation, was driving and thanked the man with the confederate bandana who came to us with food. Junebug showed surprise that he'd come to us, seeing as he was Black. 

  The man replied, "Today, we're all brothers."


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