"Barbie Survives The Hurricane"
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Hurricane Katrina

  People forget that Katrina actually hit the Mississippi Coast. The levee broke and flooded the 9th Ward a day later.

  The news media, focused on New Orleans, never mentioned how people all over Mississippi mobilized. Rednecks parked their trucks along the main roads, filled with food, ice, water, diapers, shaving cream, cat litter, pet food.

   I was in the long line of cars at a standstill. My partner at the Foundation, who was black, was driving. He thanked the man with the confederate flag  bandana, who came to us with supplies. He replied, "Today, we're all brothers."