This week marked the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and while it’s clear that progress has been made in New Orleans, it’s also abundantly clear that there is work to be done.
Here are some of the words people spoke and wrote on the topic:
MATT LAUER: You say you told Laura at the time it was the worst moment of your presidency.
AMY GOODMAN: What would you say to President Obama today? Will you actually see him?
“This was not a natural disaster—it was an infrastructure failure”
“New Orleans is on a path to a better place,” the city’s mayor, Mitch Landrieu, said Saturday.
“It is a mis-education to say that New Orleans is a place of wonderful racial harmony. There’s people that like to perpetuate that idea, so they don’t have to deal with the hard truths.
But I like the fact that you define what happened in Charleston as domestic terrorism. It needs to be defined like that. Not just for the symbolic nature of it, but for the policy that goes with it. The policy in place with federal government, is that when something is declared a terrorist organization, that means all resources go to destroying, dismantling that organization, because they see it as a threat to the security of the United States. When are we gonna make that same threat on the White Citizens’ Council and on the Ku Klux Klan?
SOFIA BERNETTE: Seriously, Daddy, you’re going to stroke out.