letter writing campaign
I am on a letter writing campaign to get money so I can live. Anyone who wants to participate, please feel free to use the letters below to assist you. Send them to your politicians or favorite celebrities. I have written to all the senators, represtentatives and governors of Minnesota and Wisconsin. If you want to write to any of them, it may reinforce my efforts.
By the way, I’m in MN for Christmas. It was 13 degrees yesterday. You know how I feel about that, I am sure.
So I watched TV the other day, and Oprah had a show where her audience was full of Katrina relief workers (none from New Orleans). She gave them thousands and thousands of dollars worth of gifts. I had to leave the room. I appreciate what she did, but it reinforces the media’s portayal of New Orleans which disgusts me. Everyone from NOLA, e.g. those crazy women before congress, is stupid, helpless, lazy, crazy, etc. Thank goodness the rest of the country came to save us from ourselves.
This attitude completely ignores that fact that no resue workers showed up for a week, and a skeleton crew of local residents and NOPD (the firefighters had run away to the west bank) did everything by ourselves. Why do they always pick the worst people to represent NOLA in the media? Brian Weber had pointed this out before the storm - they always pick people like voodoo priestesses to tell the world about our city. They never do that for New York, LA, Houston, Minneapolis, etc.
The media completely sucks.
I’m also writing a letter to Oprah, but I haven’t finished it yet.
