1 Dead in Attic
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Eliot Kamenitz/Times-Picayune
Three years ago today Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States. As it approached, people familiar with New Orleans knew that the devastation would be severe and fall most heavily on the poor mostly African-American II.1 One dared call it genocide. When the wind had died down, Chris Rose of the Times-Picayune wrote ot the devastion in an article that later became a book, 1 Dead in Attic.
The Gulf Coast and New Orleans are only rebulit to a fraction of pre-Katrina vitality as they brace for the onslaught of Gustav. Cain Burdeau of the Associated Press reports that the levies are not even up to pre-Katrina strength. There is the prospect that Gustav might be more severe. An assortment of politicians from both parties is changing their convention plans to deal with the impending crisis. There is one small upside. Most of the people forced to leave by Katrina have not returned to be forced out by Gustav.
1To my regular reader(s), I apologize. I’m campaigining for recognition of the Genome Project discovery that everybody in the Americas is African-???-American. I am mostly African-European-American.a
aIt’s more correct to say that all the known Human Genome originated in Africa so that people in the Orient are African-Asians. Also the result actually dates back to earlier work on Mitochondrial DNA, but is much more firmly established due to the HGP.
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