The Storm After the Storm

Posted By: News
Date: 2, September 05, at 10:15 p.m.

In Response To: Hurricane Katrina Exposes Racism And Inequality (News)

By DAVID BROOKS
Published: September 1, 2005

Hurricanes come in two waves. First comes the rainstorm, and then comes what the historian John Barry calls the "human storm" - the recriminations, the political conflict and the battle over compensation. Floods wash away the surface of society, the settled way things have been done. They expose the underlying power structures, the injustices, the patterns of corruption and the unacknowledged inequalities. When you look back over the meteorological turbulence in this nation's history, it's striking how often political turbulence followed.
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Messages In This Thread

Hurricane Katrina Exposes Racism And Inequality
News -- 1, September 05, at 10:01 p.m.

Amid stench of death, poor bear the brunt
News -- 2, September 05, at 8:34 a.m.

The Great Mississippi Flood in 1927
News -- 2, September 05, at 9:09 a.m.

Re: Hurricane Katrina Exposes Racism And Inequalit
Curtis Dogheal McTavish -- 2, September 05, at 5:25 p.m.

Blind to History
News -- 2, September 05, at 9:50 p.m.

The Storm After the Storm
News -- 2, September 05, at 10:15 p.m.

Mayor Ray Nagin Radio Interview. *LINK*
Bush_Bath -- 3, September 05, at 1:47 p.m.

Bush Strafes New Orleans, Where's Huey Long? *LINK*
News -- 3, September 05, at 2:11 p.m.

They're Trying to Wash Us Away.... *LINK*
News -- 3, September 05, at 6:58 p.m.

The dispossessed of New Orleans tell... *LINK*
News -- 4, September 05, at 2:36 p.m.

Oops! We forgot the niggers (again)! *LINK*
Cindy -- 4, September 05, at 6:21 p.m.

Re: Oops! We forgot the niggers (again)! *LINK*
Bush_Bath -- 1, November 05, at 11:07 p.m.

An exposé of American society *LINK*
News -- 5, September 05, at 12:07 p.m.

Mother's remark puts silver foot in Bush's mouth *LINK*
News -- 7, September 05, at 10:24 a.m.

White House: Mrs. Bush Comment 'Personal' *LINK*
News -- 12, September 05, at 2:21 a.m.

Warnings were loud and clear
News -- 9, September 05, at 12:24 a.m.

The Great New Orleans Land Grab
News -- 9, September 05, at 10:29 p.m.

Eight Big Lies About Katrina *LINK*
News -- 10, September 05, at 10:56 a.m.

Exiles from a city and from a nation *LINK*
News -- 11, September 05, at 11:03 a.m.

'Racist' police blocked bridge and forced evacuees back
News -- 12, September 05, at 3:36 p.m.

New Orleans Unmasks 'Apartheid, American Style'
News -- 13, September 05, at 12:54 a.m.

Re: New Orleans Unmasks 'Apartheid, American Style
Curtis Dogheal McTavish -- 14, September 05, at 5:19 p.m.

Re: New Orleans Unmasks 'Apartheid, American Style
Cheneep -- 15, September 05, at 6:33 a.m.

Re: New Orleans Unmasks 'Apartheid, American Style *NM*
Curtis Dogheal McTavish -- 15, September 05, at 5:32 p.m.

Re: New Orleans Unmasks 'Apartheid, American Style
Curtis Dogheal McTavish -- 15, September 05, at 5:33 p.m.

Re: New Orleans Unmasks 'Apartheid, American Style
Curtis Dogheal McTavish -- 22, September 05, at 5:03 p.m.

We had to kill our patients
News -- 13, September 05, at 3:09 a.m.

Bush's Status With Blacks Takes Hit
News -- 14, September 05, at 12:50 p.m.

T&T gives US$2m in aid for Katrina victims
News -- 14, September 05, at 11:46 p.m.

The petulant president *LINK*
News -- 16, September 05, at 3:55 p.m.

The Shame of Blaming the Victims
News -- 16, September 05, at 4:16 p.m.

Bush becomes Katrina mourner-in-chief *LINK*
News -- 16, September 05, at 11:19 p.m.

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