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Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Washington Post
Washington Post, September 5, 2005
Posted: November 23rd, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09...
Posted: November 23rd, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09...
Mullen has a schoolteacher's kindly demeanor, so it was jarring to hear him say he suspected that the levee breaks had somehow been engineered to keep the wealthy French Quarter and Garden District dry at the expense of poor black neighborhoods...a suspicion I heard from many other black survivors. And it was surprising to hear Mullen's gentle voice turn bitter as he described the scene at the convention center, when helicopters bringing food didn't even land and the soldiers "just pushed the food out like we were in the Third World." I literally stumbled into the Rev. Jesse Jackson. He looked genuinely shaken, [saying] "this looks like the hold of a slave ship."
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