Environemental injustice, racism and Katrina

Quotations from"The Other Side of the Big Easy", by Liza Featherstone, published in Alternet, September 12, 2005.

"the response to Hurricane Katrina seems to be proving: people in power viewed the city's poorest residents as, says Robert Bullard, "expendable in some sense."

"What Katrina has exposed is decades of benign neglect and racism, which you can't prettify with a crawfish étouffé. This is the other side of New Orleans."

"...others fear that the city could be rebuilt as a massive gentrification project, one with no room for Katrina's displaced."

Categories: Disaster, Discrimination, Race, USA