Tragic legacy ends with FEMA trailers
Lewis DiuguidNew Orleans finally has shed the last of its FEMA trailers.
The end of more than 23,000 FEMA-issued trailers and mobile homes is a sad reminder of the August 2005 devastation left by of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast. It also brings back images of people stranded on rooftops pleading for help and the terrible disparity in treatment that African Americans suffered in the hurricane compared with whites.
In addition, who could forget the legendary fumbling of FEMA officials in providing aid and relocation to people in New Orleans and surrounding communities hit by the hurricane. The last FEMA trailer needs to be part of a museum piece marking the terrible things that occurred and what should never happens again.
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Chuck Close
3 months agoKatrina is undoubtedly an American tragedy on a grand scale in so many ways.
Accepting that, you then float a grand scale canard regarding the disparity of treatment based on race. Facts hardly support that theory.
Actually a disproportionate number of whites died in the Katrina catastrophe. Statistics released by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals suggest that fewer than half of the victims of Hurricane Katrina were black, and that whites died at the highest rate of all races in New Orleans. NORLA is 67% black.
Is it really neccessary or helpful to wallow in the dark hole of racial victimhood?
Kent Mueller
3 months agoIs this another unsubstantiated claim of racism? Yep.
Lewis, are the racists you know who were involved in the Katrina aftermath the same ones who you know are in the school districts that neighbor the KCPS? You, know, the ones you said didn’t want black kids in their districts. Do these people have names?