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Melanie Burford The Dallas Morning News
"BLIND FAITH"


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Trinell McCray breaks into tears as Sue Sandford holds her son Shawn Smith, after the extended McCray family moved into Sue Sandford's house a week after Hurricane Katrina. The McCrays were embarking on a search for a new home, joining one of the largest exoduses in the nation's history. Sue Sandford, a divorced mother, wanted her four children to know a world different from their own. She invited the McCray family into her home on blind faith. 'People will look at you funny,' Sue warned them, 'not because you're black, but because you don't belong in my house. It's not prejudice, it's protection.' Within days, the two families from radically different backgrounds would form a lasting bond. Among myriad social experiments the hurricane spawned, this was one that worked.
 

 

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