Katrina’s evacuation capacity tracked class and race, stranding the immobile poor

Evidence

Family and other networks could support the mobile while the immobile were left to flounder in a flooded and rotting city, many losing contact even with the family members sharing their fate. The less lucky lost their lives. The wealthier got to watch from afar while the stricken got to share the streets with floating bodies, excrement, oil pollution. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 431

Categorization

• SEED: A possible angle: disaster evacuation as a vehicle for exposing stratified social capital — the same networks that lift the mobile condemn the rooted poor.
• XREF: connects to: Post-Katrina rebuilding prioritized wealthier whiter neighborhoods over poor black areas — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 141