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Survivors from New Orleans told a congressional panel on Tuesday they felt abandoned by government at all levels after Hurricane Katrina hit the city and had been subjected to racial slurs and menaced by guns when they sought food and water.



Hodges described waiting in the burning sun in conditions she likened to a concentration camp. Rep. Jeff Miller, a Florida Republican, asked her to stop making that comparison.

"I'm going to call it what it is. If I put a dress on a pig, a pig is still a pig," she responded heatedly.

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Sis WHY: I agree totally. He did get a beautiful dignified funeral. He was apparently loved by all who came in contact with him. Aaay sah!

YG: Sometimes it seems like all hope is lost. But, thankfully, good people are living their lives day to day and enjoying it right there in JA. We have to just hold on to hope that things will change. I wonder if Golding would be willing to give Trevor McMillan Phillips job. Then, again, things are way more crucial than they were when he led the police. Heck, in my little district alone murder is up 100% from a place with no murders up to when I was there three years ago to multiple murders recently from which we're totally in shock. Not to mention the robbery of a shop that's been there over thirty years with nary a problem.