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  "a problem for the elites"

  I think everyone here recognizes the insidious intertwining of racism and classism.  I'd like to turn the conversation if nobody minds.  This article mentions the

  "fear that the city could be rebuilt as a massive gentrification project, one with no room for Katrina's displaced. Of course, that would present a problem for the elites: in a New Orleans 'cleansed' of poor people and blacks, where would all the petrochemical waste be dumped? Who would live on top of the leaky, carcinogenic landfills? And who would bear the brunt of the next Katrina?"

  The rhetorical questions offer a neat closing for the article, but such issues have never been a problem for the elites in other gentrified areas.  There is always someplace else to despoil and someone else to dump on in the search for comfort or profit.  For some local garbage and pollution, that place will be a couple towns over.  For other fallout, environmental and economic, the world is our stage.  Or dumping ground.On Slow Katrina evacuation fits pattern of injustice during crises posted 4 years, 2 months ago 7 Responses