Tenel Curtis
Katrina survivor
New Orleans, LA
First I would like to thank God and on the behalf of D-Americanz Dream I would like to thank all of you’ll for allowing us to be here.
As you may know I am from New Orleans before Aug 29 2005 I did not know much about being homeless. I only had one meaning for the word “homeless” it was a person who is staying out on the streets. Which I know nothing about what I knew was not having the money to pay your bills and lights are phone may be turned off of a few days.
During the hurricane, my house took on 8 feet of water. When your house only stands 3 feet off the ground, that means you no longer have a home. I not only lost one home I lost two. See when you grow up in a city and live in one house all your life, it is a part of you.
“So when New Orleans flooded, I not only lost my home where I lie my head I lost my home I wake up and walk out to everyday.”
So when New Orleans flooded, I not only lost my home where I lie my head I lost my home I wake up and walk out to everyday.
In a world with so much money, you wonder how can people be poor and homeless? Well, me and my family found the answer to that. In this America, if you have it people are willing to help you and if you do not then you wake up one day realizing no one is willing to help you some of us here then you have to go from place to place because you have great plans on getting things going but no one wants to invest in you because you do not have already. Simply put in the world the rich is to get richer and the poor is to get poorer.
The Gumbo Will Alwayz Be My Home.