Wil Haygood's Washington Post article "The Racial Dimension: 'To Me, It Just Seems Like Black People Are Marked'" drew me into the paper's "In Katrina's Wake" package.
Update: There's also David Gonzalez's New York Times article "From Margins of Society to the Center of Tragedy" (via Bomani Jones), Scott Gold's Los Angeles Times article "A City's Open Wounds: A walk through New Orleans is an assault on the senses: distressing sights and smells, an odd quiet in a water-choked urban wasteland" and Lolly Bowean's Chicago Tribune article "Hurricane forces another 'black migration' to Chicago"
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I read the Post article, 'are Black People Marked'. I would say everyone who lives in the bottom of a bowl, under sea level, in a known flood plain, between the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico is 'marked' during hurricane season. White people caused this tradegy. If it weren't for slavery, the black people wouldn't even be in New Orleans, they would be in Africa.
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