Katrina Kriminal: poor, former renter, black


	Katrina Kriminal: poor, former renter, black

nedhamson1

9-3-2009 5:34 PM

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nedhamson1 says:

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.

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