Katrina Kriminal: poor, former renter, black

Warning - you may not want to read this since it is about racial bias and elitism's effects in America.

Four years ago Katrina laid bare the depth of racism and elitism in not just New Orleans, Louisiana but in the USA. Reminds me of why we tolerate genocide in the Sudan, high crime and homicide rates in predominately Black-American neighborhoods, and very high infante mortality in the Black and or poor America.

clipped from www.indypendent.org Four Years Later, Displaced New Orleans Residents Long for Home as Governments Turn Their Back More than one million Gulf Coast residents have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina alone. Around 200 storm survivors are now living throughout the five boroughs, according to Johnnie Stevens, a founding member of the coalition. Quigley noted that no renters—who made up 60 percent of New Orleans’ residents before the storm—have received any federal housing assistance from the $10 billion set aside for rebuilding the Gulf Coast. He also highlighted the onslaught of privatization that has hit the city, resulting in the demolition of thousands of public housing units. “With FEMA, nothing has changed, with HUD, nothing has changed, with the Army Corps., nothing has changed,” Stevens said.