Who Gets Remembered After the Storm?
Proverbs 29:14“The best insurance for a leader’s longevity is to demonstrate justice for the poor.”Twenty-one years ago today, August 29th, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana.More than 80% of New Orleans flooded. Over 1,800 people died. Families were displaced, neighborhoods were devastated and institutional failures were exposed in real time.Four days later, Kanye West stood beside Mike Myers during a live NBC relief telethon.Mike read the script.Kanye…did not.He looked into the camera and said, “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people.”Mike Myers’s face became its own…
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