For those who have not lived in New Orleans, you have missed a incredible, glorious, vital, city. A place with a culture and energy unlike anywhere else in the world...a city of kindness and hospitality...
He also fills in a lot of the details that help contextualize the demonization of the victims & the stunning failure of most officials to do much of anything to help them.
It is also a city of exploitation and segregation and fear...There is an atmosphere of intense hostility and distrust between much of Black New Orleans and the N.O. Police Department....Race has always been the undercurrent of Louisiana politics. This disaster is one that was constructed out of racism, neglect and
incompetence.
I definitely urge folks to go read the whole piece. Here's the link again.
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