Cornel West: Exiles from a city and from a nation

I've been waiting for this. THANK YOU DR WEST.

This from Cornel West in the Observer Exiles from a city and from a nation. West writes, "It takes something as big as Hurricane Katrina and the misery we saw among the poor black people of New Orleans to get America to focus on race and poverty. It happens about once every 30 or 40 years. What we saw unfold in the days after the hurricane was the most naked manifestation of conservative social policy towards the poor, ...."