Status Updates From Hope Against Hope: Three Sc...

The cogs have been turning for me as I head into the final segments…

“There are so many stories,” she said one afternoon, sitting on a bench under Walker’s breezeway. “I worry that they will get lost, that there’s no one to tell them. My big fear is that all folks will remember is that when Katrina hit, people had to ride in on their white horses and save the children of New Orleans.” She shuddered at the thought.

"With so much focus on the city’s unique geography and traditions, the country lost sight of how the city’s near destruction might carry broader lessons. It lost sight of New Orleans not as an exceptional American city, but as one whose decayed infrastructure, overwhelmed social services, long-simmering racial tensions, and gross inequities make it perversely American."