Hurricane Katrina

I felt that in that moment, the contradictions of America's kind of race and class were laid bare. I actually went to New Orleans several times over a couple of years after Katrina. It was one of those moments where you couldn't just gloss over it. And so kind of the American media in that moment kind of discovered race and class in a way that teenagers kind of discover sex. You have to kind of pick a piece and go with it.