Foxx offers distraction to Katrina victims

Jamie Foxx, who is working with the NAACP on Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, says celebrities should get giving when the going gets tough.

“ The reason you have to do this is you have to let them know that you’re real,” Foxx said at an NAACP event after a recent visit to the Reliant Astrodome, where cots have been set up for victims.

“ He was so fine. I was just wishing he could have took me home with him,” said Venus Junius, who was forced from her New Orleans home and spent three days on a bridge before getting a ride to Houston. “ When I saw him, I just ran to where he was at.” Ruth Bibbs, a 72- year- old from New Orleans, said meeting Foxx helped take her mind off the devastation. “ You forget about it for a moment, at least,” she said.