No NOLA Fatigue!
Ms NOLA writes:
Please read and share this important article. It hits the nail on the head. While New Orleans, like many major global cities, has severe racial and class issues and a not so hot track record with local government, those things didn't destroy the city. The Army Corps of Engineers is largely to blame and this cannot be stressed enough. Who funds them? Congress. Not Ray Nagin, not Kathleen Blanco. It's all too easy to think that what happened during Hurricane Katrina was an act of God or a local failure, indicative of national perspectives on the South.
I would add that, insofar as prosperous New Orleanians may have seen the Corps's failure to protect their city as a good thing (that is, as a racial cleanser), it was the Federal Government's responsibility to counter and defeat such views.
