US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 27, Catastrophic Failure: Enron, Katrina & Politics in the mid-2000s (Con't)

I thought that I lived in America until shortly after Katrina and the Crescent City Connection was blocked off from people being able to walk freely on United States soil.

— Karen Carter, Louisiana State Representative (D - New Orleans) (in Spike Lee's documentary, When the Levees Break)

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