Katrina, Aftermath Galvanize Black America

Katrina, Aftermath Galvanize Black America: "'You'd have to go back to slavery, or the burning of black towns, to find a comparable event that has affected black people this way,' said Darnell M. Hunt, a sociologist and head of the African American studies department at UCLA.

If the rescue effort had not been so mishandled, and if those who suffered so needlessly had not been so black and so poor, perhaps Hurricane Katrina would have been just another destructive storm, alongside the likes of Charley and Andrew and Hugo. (There is no Keisha or Kwame.)

But Katrina's searing images _ linking nature's wrath and the nation's wrongs _ have fanned the smoldering resentments of the civil rights, Reaganomic and hip-hop eras all at once."

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