What Katrina dug up: years of neglect: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
What Katrina dug up: years of neglect: South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "Hurricanes are horrible, destructive forces.
But if you go to the beach, you'll notice they're great at exposing stuff that's long been hidden under the surface.
Certainly true for Katrina.
She's exposed everything from poor leadership, to racism, classicism and even our own weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
It's about a lot more than just the federal government's lethargic emergency response in Louisiana and Mississippi, which Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., has called a 'national embarrassment.'
I certainly can't argue with that assessment. But if that's the case, what do you call the conditions in New Orleans that led up to this disaster?"
But if you go to the beach, you'll notice they're great at exposing stuff that's long been hidden under the surface.
Certainly true for Katrina.
She's exposed everything from poor leadership, to racism, classicism and even our own weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
It's about a lot more than just the federal government's lethargic emergency response in Louisiana and Mississippi, which Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., has called a 'national embarrassment.'
I certainly can't argue with that assessment. But if that's the case, what do you call the conditions in New Orleans that led up to this disaster?"
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