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Book Review: 'Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina And the Color of Disaster'

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"'Come Hell or High Water' argues that the nation's failure to offer timely aid to Katrina's victims indicates deeper problems in race and class relations."
-- Publisher's Weekly

Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina And the Color of Disaster (Hardcover)

by Michael Eric Dyson

BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt)

What Dyson so brilliantly reveals in "Come Hell or High Water" is that the aftershocks of Hurricane Katrina involved much more wind and rain; in a way, it was a momentous symbolic moment that placed the issues of class, race and poverty before us, even if but for a brief break in the news cycle.

Dyson's book is dedicated to making us digest the implications of the Katrina disaster as a society, and to ensure that the debacle just doesn't get lost in the wake of the daily churning of media stories.

He doesn't mince words, of course, about Bush: "The proof of Bush's lack of political care of blacks before Katrina is equally distressing: under his presidency black poverty has increased, black unemployment has risen, and affirmative action has been viciously assaulted....By seeking to cut the food stamp budget by $1.1 billion over the next decade, the Bush will douse even further the fortunes of black poor."

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With this call-to-action, Dyson warns us that we can only find redemption as a society if we acknowledge that Katrina was more than an engineering or emergency response failure. From the TV newsroom to the Capitol Building to the backyard, we must change the ways we relate to the black and the poor among us. What's at stake is no less than the future of democracy.



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