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If people are telling her this (ie they might have a ticket out of a chronically poor area to one with perhaps more opportunity for them) then I don't think it would be wrong (other than maybe a bit of over-generalization) to say that "things were working out well for them".



I have to agree with you. Even before Katrina, NO was so overrun with corruption, that maybe a change of scenery to a more thriving city might give them a new chance. She never mentions race in any part of that quote.


Last edited by royce73; 09/06/05 07:37 PM.