The people who were left behind in New Orleans are the people who are always left: the poor, the people without power, the people that our society doesn't care about.

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A model for what others might do. He is in a position to do even more and I suspect that he will.

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The disaster that we are observing lays bare the tremendous class stratification of our society.

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It reveals the overlap between poverty and race in the U.S.. It also points out the deep poverty that exists in this country. We have a tremendous divide.

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