Day September 5, 2005

Accompanying her husband, former President George H.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, “This is working very well for them.” “And…

From the Times of London, hardly a rabble-rousing newspaper. Gerard Scott arrived back in Merseyside today from a holiday in New Orleans with his wife, Sandra, and their young son. He criticised the US authorities for their “horrendous” handling of…

From Kirsten in Santa Cruz  The whole thing is horrifying–they’re treating people worse than most of us would treat animals. And so clearly, it seems a race thing, that the poor of New Orleans are black and they have been…

The 1927 Mississippi flood In 1927, the great Mississippi flood rumbled down upon New Orleans. As Barry writes in his account, “Rising Tide,” the disaster ripped the veil off the genteel, feudal relations between whites and blacks, and revealed the…

International Herald Tribune Disaster exposes city’s racial fault lineEven people who had spent a lifetime studying race and class found themselves slack-jawed. “This is a pretty graphic illustration of who gets left behind in this society – in a literal way,”…