Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans?

By ANNE RICE
Published: September 4, 2005
La Jolla, Calif.

WHAT do people really know about New Orleans?
Do they take away with them an awareness that it has always been not only a great white metropolis but also a great black city, a city where African-Americans have come together again and again to form the strongest African-American culture in the land? more

An amazing op-ed piece from today's New York Times.

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Anonymous said…

Excellent!
I posted to my LJ too.

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