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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Doing My Share

I haven't spoken extensively about Hurricane Katrina but TV won't let any of us think of anything else for too long. Most of the coverages lately are about the political views and drama that surrounds the victims. Firstly, let me say that I do not like Philly as a city and I would never build my future here voluntarily but that feeling has intensified just a little but more. As the plans were being made for the survivors to find relief in the City of Brotherly Love, the city's citizens were complaining to the mayor and on NATIONAL TELEVISION that they don't feel that they should have to take in any victims or take care of them because of the amount of homeless people that they have already in the city!!! YALL AIN'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE HOMELESS BEFORE!!! AND WHY WOULD YOU OPEN YOUR IGNORANT, UNEDUCATED, AND MISINFORMED MOUTH ON NATIONAL TV TO SPEW THAT GARBAGE???!!!
Secondly, some of the coverages have gotten on my nerves too, while I think the people who are insistent on stayin in New Orleans because they can't find their dog {lol...but not really funny} are foolish, but for the media to mark them as looters, violent, and stupid is just wrong. To say that these people chose to stay is also a very misinformed statement...this is an area that was hit about 10 years ago with a pretty bad storm {which the government never tried to help rebuild from} so they didn't really have much, so if you ain't got no where to go and no means to try to get anywhere else-WHERE DA HELL YOU WANT THEM TO GO!??!?! Let's get some compassion, mercy, and understanding people or just sit in our corners and shut up!!!

Me on the other just can't sit in anybody's corner while there are people strugglin without anything to hold on to, so I decided to get out and do my part. Many of the survivors lost a lot of blood along with their livelihoods and some of the doctors at Lutheran Hospital and Methodist Hospital sponsored a blood drive and needed techs to take the blood so I volunteered my services. The Red Cross here on Hanehmann's campus is taking donations of canned goods, clothing, toiletries, and others so I decided to also help in that, now many of the students are back from break but it is our goal that when they do return to spread the word and make sure this drive goes on as long as these people need our help and to also spread wider to Drexel's main campus and Penn and Temple {prayerfully} so if you have anything to donate or time please do so it is very important. These are humans, grown men and women who have children and cannot provide for them-try to imagine the blow to their prides, to their self-esteem, to their hearts that must be...don't make these people beg for our help. Everyone please get out and do your share.

Dr. CH Howe, MD {prayerfully}

posted by DSweet1 @ Tuesday, September 13, 2005

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