Did you ever see the show on PBS filmed of a family in the Bayou before Katrina? Where and American white male

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and his two little children about 4yrs for the girl and 5yrs old for the boy, lived in a shack that looked like a Duck Blind? The father with the children watching their Dad, was hunting Swamp Rat for their Supper? The children were very sickly and illiterate? Why in the world would in this country there would be anything resembling that scenario? With all the racial issues about how the whites have it better? And then there was a black family same scenario but they were eating water moccassins? We have starving people here then and much more after Katrina? What are we going to do about this? Why were they not in schools? Where are the schools in New Orleans areas now? If mothers in middle class homes did not have to work the children would also get to be much more educated in common sense as well as more security? However where was our loyalties then to our own people? Am I the only one that watches those things on PBS? Not! So what is wrong here?

Answer 1

It's the same in Appalachia, where there are kids who cannot go to school because the school district doesn't have the money to insure the school bus that would bring them 10 miles down the mountain.
Every time I see those "Save the Children" ads, I think about our kids in America who have just as little, and yet are ignored.

Answer 2

Are you kidding? I actually have 2 small children. For a pair of years there, i concept the television become stuck on PBS. each and every of the youngster shows. yet I also watch various the grown up shows too; pink eco-friendly, provider, uncommon Visions and Roadside Revelations, and some others that i'll't imagine of in the present day.

Answer 3

What is wrong is that N.O. is and always has been a welfare state. The government there, who are supposed to be responsible for their own people, NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT as everyone thinks, doesn't do anything about it. It's up to each state to provide for their own people. N.O. had always been a place that made money, but the state government wasted it on everything but what they needed. PBS doesn't site that. They want to make those issues look national and not up to their state. Also, if the people do not care enough about their lives to at least TRY to get an education...from K-12, then apply for grants to go to college, then that is their problem. I'm tired of paying taxes to have welfare give it away to those who don't give a darn about how they exist and expect other people to support them.

The U.S. and every state in this nation are advancing but them. There is no excuse, there are help programs galore and if they don't want to further themselves, then that's their issue. I have enough of my own problems scraping for pennies and trying to find work. I needed to get ahead and I applied for Pell Grants when I didn't have money to go to college, and just to have some sort of income I took a job in commercial cleaning because I want to do something other than live off the state.

There are no more excuses out there. There are all types of grants available for people who are ambitious enough to find help. New Orleans should be no exception.