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This 3 page paper looks at what went wrong during the aftermath of Katrina. Charges of racism are disputed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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years ago. Aside from the tragic consequences of this hurricane, there is a sense that because the people who lived there were poor, the help was delayed. The government claims
that the statement is not true. Others complain that if it were not a black area, the levees would not have been in disrepair. Quinn writes: "Katrina exposed a broader
social, political, and economic system that does not work for the poor" (204). Many claims to this end were made. In fact, the most frequently used rhetoric in respect
to the failure to get relief for Katrinas victims go to race and class. Of course, while that may be true to an extent, the evidence suggests that other factors
created an impasse to helping victims of this devastating hurricane. There were a variety of things occurring at once. Katrina was not expected to make landfall in quite the way
that it did. Actually, while news media played it up, hurricane parties turned cheerful. At first, there was a sense of relief. Everything was okay. However, once the levees broke,
there would be devastation. In part, the people had no idea that this catastrophic event would occur. It is true that the hurricane could have packed a bigger wallop and
even if the levees did not break, the people would have been devastated, but that did not happen. The GAO for example argued that DHS might have classified Katrina as
a catastrophic event so that some of the bureaucracy would have been eliminated (Marek and Kaplan 38). To some extent, the government did not act fast enough. Much later, David
Vitter would testify in Congress: "We have a lot to learn from Hurricane Katrina and need to do all we can to be better prepared for future storms." There were
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