[Op-Ed] Trina Kids Storms don’t talk

I was in my first week of Sophomore in Sophemore College on August 29, 2005. The Freshman year varied; I was reading about love from the metal months, I live in a new city, and I first see how the darkness can be found and sealed. I was the first to be my new version and I believe I will not go home to New Orleans after college. That changed behind Katrina.

Instead of leaving the city where Katrina assaulted, my family was on the back of the Caal street hotel. My mother and my father put my sister, my mother, my mother, two uncle, my grandmother, and my high school boyfriend as they all carried all the poor of Trina. After a long immigration involving sleeping at the school bus in the countryside Mississippi, they made it my 800sqft Atlanta apartment, where they live. They live each way to tell the good news and are sweet as they soften and sad, and until today, no one can be allocated from tears.

For the night, Katrina had reprinted and renewed my way, sending me where I wanted my roots. I returned the home postgrad in Loyola University New Orleans, where the professors who have luxurious as Andrea Armstrong and Majeeda increases my way of thinking and made my lawyer. Such a feeling that has the right to learn from women who have been dedicated to helping free from prison people would not happen without Katrina. And from that time in the late August came my new thought of justice.

Twenty years later, now Mother and Director of Louisiana Center are children’s rights (LCCR), I think about Trina’s survival children. In particular, the children were closed when a storm beats, children with neglect and the news was empty.

In 2006, the Juvenile Justice Project for Louisiana, one of the LCCR’s Partial Partners, has given 150 children tied in and in New Orrian areas as Katrina approaches. While the storm arrived, the slave program had moved every child tied to Orleans and St Bernard, circuits in the old-hour prison – 98% of whom black. Those youth reveals that they travel three to five days without food, and they are so dry so that they drink flood water polluted. In the heat of the Sweltering, some children take off your nakedness. When the officials eventually moved them, the deputies used violence and threats to ‘ordering.’

A 17-year-old boy known as a summon to the guards told them, “You are no longer new. You are in the old prison. Another child, 15, said the guards identified guns on their heads. These children were handled hand and cleaned in 10 groups, enduring excessive hunger, confusion, heat, and intimidation. Hurricane Katrina forced to grow in the ark between this, at the time, the worst natural disaster in US history. As I think, I wonder what children.

In the last two decades, Louisiana still refused to treat children like children. In 2024, our Ruler opened a special law for crime, declaring, “these youths do not last long; they are hard criminals.” [lailluminator.com] That same year, Louisiana became the first dominion of the age, and she again treated 17-year-old children as an elders in the Legal System. Another year legislature is another that other children are “lost when they are 2 years old.”

Now, although there are forests in youth crimes and the 20th Protection of Katrina Kakatrina, Trump bent in DC and encouraged the end of the language. ” I worked with teens for 15 years, and I know that our young people understand the language of care. They can hear that care when we finish our children’s crimes, and to pass the law like the law of the people who are still trying [summerlee.house.gov]Gives good opportunities to solve our children by investing staff development, educational and AFTERSCHOOL programs. Here in New Orleans, we need empathy adults to engage in a village and the deposit to provide young people as we work down on us.

This minute you receive where the weather combines the climate, political, and global weather. As we show and show our future, we should remember our children, if there is nothing else. We have seen what happened when we forgot – like 150 children we left with one Flood in the past 20 years – ignore them with side effects.

James Baldwin reminded us, “Children always say, all the rest of them, all the earth;

Hurricane Katrina resumed and stimulated my way, I found far beyond my roots; I found out why. In this Memorial, let us remember that children belong to our children, even those trapped after the prison walls. I joined to make it to build the right world for everyone.

Kristel rome He is the Protector of Teens and the Chief Director of Louisiana Center by children’s rights. In addition to his legal activity, he is born and Doula and Mama on a 7-year-old daughter.