| As much as the storm waters have covered, they have uncovered something too. The reality that there are two Americas, or at least two: those who can escape disaster and those who can't. The people left behind in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, those stranded on their rooves, the waters have been rising around those of us who are poor, and weak, disproportionately black and treated as dispensable ? the waters have been rising around those of us for a while. FLANDERS |




