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Rebecca Solnit — Falling Together

On Being with Krista Tippett

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What Happened to New Orleans?

I think maybe the image people go to in a default way is kind of, you know, maybe the civil rights movement simplified. And we and even from the very beginning, the story was narrated and presented in a way that was largely just incredibly demoralizing. What happened to new orleans is that the levees failed. You can walk out of the central city to dry land, but the sheriff of a suburb called gretna and his thugs get on the bridge with guns and turn people back at gunpoint.

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