The Stranger, September 8th, 2005
Before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, nearly 70 percent of the city's population was black. Immediately after the hurricane that figure must have been in the high 90s. Indeed, if a person walked out of the wilderness today and was shown the images coming out of New Orleans last week--pictures of the dead, the raped, the stranded, the refugees--that person would immediately think that the disaster was unfolding in Lagos (Nigeria), or Monrovia (Liberia), or Nairobi (Kenya). But these images do not come from the darkest Africa, but an American city; and not just some little old sleepy town in...
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