00:00You know, I have never seen something so intentionally and surgically displace
00:05black people and people of lower socioeconomic status like that disaster.
00:10Because if you had the time, space, bandwidth, money to hold out, you could do something,
00:17still pay your bills, and come back when it was time. I was able, I had the privilege of being
00:22able to stay with my uncle in Baton Rouge, fight with that terrible traffic and there being no
00:27food in the stores because everybody was up there eating it up. But I could do that and
00:33wait for potable water to come back and return to my house in the city and have a way to pay
00:38my bills. If you didn't have connections, disposable income, the ability to wait, the ability to
00:45be patient, how were you supposed to just do that? And so people went from living in a neighborhood
00:52that their family had lived in for generations to being in Montana or being in Idaho or
00:57someplace that you've seen on a map that you'd never heard of. And I think when you go on
01:02vacation, you choose to go there. Your hurricane was forced on you. Nobody chose that.
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