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While Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the dangers of failing to evacuate hospitals from the path of a storm, Hurricane Gustav demonstrated that moving thousands of…

— Sheri Fink

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

— Carlos Mencia

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the…

— Michael Richards

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

— Anonymous

We're poor black kids from Akron, Ohio. When you tell stories about people like us, sometimes it's going to be considered a social-impact story.

— Maverick Carter

The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city…

— Ray Nagin

Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack…

— Jeffrey Sachs

To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks and whites…

— Jared Taylor

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a…

— Elizabeth Edwards

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed…

— Harry Connick, Jr

“Many of us spent time talking with the men and women who had lived through Katrina, and we heard stories of not only individual…

— Howard Schultz

We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't.…

— Richard Grimes