Segregation's Legacy and the Katrina Disaster

[whitecarolina]

real estate values are lowest in the areas most likely to flood, nobody forced blacks to stay in the lowest values part of new orleans. but thye were told to leave, but ray nagin said it would be ok. maybe this guy should talk about the post katrina violence and the number of white corpeses that were found raped to death or beaten to death. thats the racial injustice nobody talks about racism against whites

[GustavusAdolphus1]

If that's what he's saying, ok. I wish he had stated it "that way" in this clip. Ultimately, Nagin's part was also critical, and he failed.

[GustavusAdolphus1]

Mr. Ford has either never lived in an American city, or has never lived in one and considered it honestly. Living in the Mississippi Delta is foolish to begin with, but I do agree racism had a part to play. Nagin, not unlike many mayors in many American cities, was elected, in part, for his skin tone. Nagin's handling of the situation was abysmal. And men like Ford who further pass the blame are as responsible for the horrors as anyone else.

[j53iliff]

I am reading the book right now and I don't get the impression that he is passing the blame. In the book, and somewhat in this talk, he explains that the legacy of segregated cities is largely due to a racist history, which I think is obvious, but that hurricane Katrina and the response to hurricane Katrina were not racist but random (hurricane) and bureaucratic ineptitude (FEMA) which could have effected any community white or black.