To Landrieu, Katrina normally about commemorating harmony that is racial. The mayor likes to mention a picture he remembers seeing from that week when nearly 50,000 people were trapped in the city: a black girl holding hands with a white woman in a wheelchair to make his point. In this form of the Katrina tale, nature’s wrath ended up being an equal-opportunity storm. It didn’t situation whether you had been rich or bad, black colored or white: in the event that you resided in a low-lying the main town, like Lakeview, a booming white community — one of many not many low-lying areas into the western 1 / 2 of the town — when Katrina hit, town as well as your home inundated. Little categories of specific souls are heroes. вЂвЂWe decided we had been perhaps perhaps maybe not gonna watch for national,’’ claims Jeb Bruneau, who had been president regarding the Lakeview Civic enhancement relationship at that time. Continue reading “Nowadays he runs the country’s third-largest black-owned bank, in line with the government book”
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