Create a sense of citizenship and community in distressed communities, where they have responsivity and take responsibility, not just relying on politicians, not just relying on socalled leaders, but theres a sense of ownership, even in terms of how many problems they have. In the book of isaiah in the old testament, god says, i will do a new thing in you. We have to stop practicing insanity. Time to put the poor children, the elderly, the working class in the front of the line. Gwen we wanted to hear the voices of people who have lived here and have done this, but we also want to hear your voices. If you are not in the room, watching us via live stream or on cspan, feel free to tweak, facebook, use atlanticnola to let us hear your voice, so you dont feel excluded from this conversation. If you are in the room, you will find cards on your table written, new orleans is you can fill those out and put them on the wall outside of the ballroom. We will look at them as the day goes by. Pleas
Them somewhere. Just get them out of my neighborhood. Thats all we need right now. We did not lose our ability to fish, dont bring tisch tide just bring us fishing pohls and some bat we didnt lose our minds i dont know why we didnt but we could have we lost all of the necessities we need to support our survival. Just give us that. Just give us that. And i promise you in six months like i promised one of these television stations come back we going to make gumbo its going to be all right you know what we have for dinner sunday, one of the stations was there, larry and ben two Young Brothers young men one lektrician one working on the waterfront, one fishing for us sunday morning yall. And everybody in the neighborhood including the cameramen we had fish for dinner sunday, out of the same lake pontchartrain and im still sitting here. Please, please, if you are not going to come and let us tell you what we need, just stay away. It is caused more problems than help. If fema spent all this