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Levee Town

Cockburn, Alexander | October 3, 2005 issue

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Comments on the U.S. government's handling of the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. Claim that the social inequality in New Orleans started after the Civil War, when the city was sacked; Claim that the right-wing U.S. government seeks to push the poor African American residents of New Orleans off the city's potentially profitable real estate; Observation that the Superdome was built where a thriving black neighborhood had been; View that the Supreme Court's recent decision regarding eminent domain will help push black people off their land.

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HURRICANE Katrina, 2005; EQUALITY; REAL property; AFRICAN Americans; LAND use; EMINENT domain -- United States; UNITED States

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