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The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

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Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

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Poor

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

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Weather

Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

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Schools

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.