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00:00The flooding in this city is leveling off, but 80% of New Orleans is still underwater.
00:09And while the mayor wants everyone to get out of the city, people here are still trying to figure out how to leave.
00:17The Superdome, which was the shelter of last resort, has become the last place anyone wants to be.
00:24No one's allowed just to walk out of here.
00:25No, no, no, no.
00:27When you say you want to just leave, what do they say?
00:29They tell us there's alligators, dead bodies, disease, and you won't make it.
00:37My cousin, that's the one I picked up from home, told me he didn't know how much he was going to be able to take.
00:42He said, I don't think I'm going to make it.
00:44He was about to break down up in there.
00:46I said, though, we're going to get out of here.
00:49Right next to the Superdome, they have a ramp.
00:53The bottom of the ramp was flooded out.
00:55And I seen, like, a group of National Guards, remember, like, they were sitting, like, on the backside by the ramp, just kicking it, relaxing, chilling.
01:03I guess they ain't thinking nobody going anywhere because of the water down there.
01:07So I was like, I'm going to try to sneak up and get my truck.
01:10We found my truck.
01:14I'm all excited.
01:15It just looked like this beautiful horse sitting on a hill.
01:20Right?
01:20I call it Pegasus.
01:21As a matter of fact, it just was the most beautiful sight I ever seen.
01:26My heart was beating.
01:27Got to the truck, put the keys in, turned up, cranked it.
01:33Thank God, it started up again.
01:38We're just driving through the water.
01:39There's waves just pushing and pushing and pushing.
01:41As we pass by the convention center, I'm looking, I'm seeing all these people just, they don't know what's about to happen next.
01:52They just want to survive.
01:54They just want to get out of here.
01:56And all them people just looking up at me like, man, you about to get out of here in this truck.
02:02I'm holding on to my crucifix.
02:07I'm praying, I'm asking God to get us through it.
02:26This is where they're picking up some of the refugees out of the Superdome.
02:29And as you can see, these people look like they've been here for quite some time.
02:34There is one scrap of good news from New Orleans.
02:38More than a hundred buses evacuated thousands of people from the hell hole that was once the Louisiana Superdome.
02:46And more will be brought out tonight.
02:48After a successful bus evacuation of the Superdome, the National Guard organized the people in front of the convention center, got them on buses, and we sent them to the airport.
03:03Buses are loading up on top two of the street.
03:05When they put us on the school buses, under the interstate bridge, they didn't tell us nothing.
03:16They didn't tell you where you were going.
03:18I was still out there by the convention center.
03:25I didn't feel like I could go no more.
03:27Like, I didn't even feel myself, you know.
03:31I was just done.
03:34And so when they say that the military is taking people to the airport and they're going different places.
03:40I said, man, I don't care where I go, I was going anywhere, the plane was going to fly me.
03:50The water had receded.
03:52So we took our mother, who was in a wheelchair, and the rest of the family, and we walked to a vacant lot where a helicopter landed.
04:02That Saturday, we had over 200 helicopters from the 82nd Airport on landing in New Orleans.
04:13The idea was to recover people and get them evacuated and take care of them at the airport.
04:20At the airport, we were met by National Guardsmen with guns who said, we must get on the plane.
04:28And we begged them to let us go to our sister, who lived in Houma, Louisiana, which is about an hour's drive away from New Orleans.
04:42We had family that was ready to receive us, but we were forced to get on the plane.
04:49We had no choice.
04:50They had guns.
04:53The first airplanes are getting loaded.
04:55Everything seemed to be going well.
04:56But then one of the senior pilots on the ground flying a civilian airplane said, well, we can't take off.
05:05We don't have a manifest.
05:08So he told my major, and my major called me up and said, hey, boss, we got a problem.
05:15They haven't taken off.
05:16The people have been sitting here for hours because we don't have a manifest.
05:20I said, well, let me talk to him.
05:21So I talked to him on the phone and said, look, a lot of these people don't even have identification.
05:27There's no computers out here.
05:29We can't create no manifest.
05:30I said, we can give you a yellow piece of paper.
05:33And when they walk on the airplane, you take their names down, and that's going to be your manifest.
05:37And I fly the fucking airplane.
05:40And the planes took off.
05:44We asked, where were we going to go?
05:48Where is this plane going to land?
05:50We don't know.
05:53I said, you don't know.
05:54I said, everybody has to know where they're going to land.
05:58Don't they have to have a flight plan and this kind of thing?
06:01They said, just get on the plane, ma'am.
06:08Nothing.
06:08We didn't know anything.
06:10We knew that we were leaving New Orleans.
06:13My mind was blank.
06:14I didn't know what was going to be next.
06:16We didn't really have control over our destiny.
06:21They tell you you're going to go to Houston.
06:23They tell you you're going to go to Atlanta, to Chicago, San Francisco.
06:27God knows where you'll end up.
06:31The New Orleans International Airport is part of the largest airlift ever on U.S. soil.
06:39More than 10,000 hurricane survivors.
06:42Help us on the way.
06:43Help us on the way.
06:45We've witnessed all day airlifting evacuees to the Louis Armstrong International Airport.
06:50Buses also arriving to take people out of the once great city.
06:57I tell you what a difference a day makes.
06:59Twenty-four hours ago, this building behind me, crowded with thousands and thousands of
07:05the most desperate refugees you can imagine, has been emptied.
07:09God bless the United States Army.
07:11God bless the United States military.
07:13They pulled this thing together from chaos, confusion, anarchy.
07:17God bless you.
07:18Oh, I tell you what, it's great.
07:19The All-Americans are here to help Americans.
07:21That's it.
07:22Is this America?
07:27Do I have freedom of movement?
07:29I thought I was still living in America.
07:32So, you know, it was like, okay, I'm going to do what they tell me to do.
07:44I'm going to cooperate.
07:45I'm not going to cause a ruckus.
07:47But I will get back to New Orleans.
07:49The first wave of hurricane refugees from Louisiana is arriving in Texas this morning.
07:56They're being bused from the New Orleans Superdome.
07:58As we were moving around the country, the news media, we're calling people from New Orleans
08:06refugees.
08:07Dallas schools are opening their doors to storm refugee kids.
08:12And Dallas is delivering truckloads of donations to refugees.
08:15How can you be a refugee in your own country?
08:19It offended not only me, but a lot of people.
08:22We are not refugees.
08:23We are American citizens that have got caught up in a bad way.
08:26And we resent that word, refugees.
08:29And they shouldn't use that anymore.
08:32We've been traveling and traveling.
08:35We've been going from one shelter to the next shelter.
08:38But that's okay because we're living.
08:42The thing that's not all right is we got family members scattered all around.
08:49Where they scattered at, we don't know.
08:51With approximately a million refugees, 30 states in all are accepting evacuees in this country's
09:00largest migration in 70 years.
09:03These were internally displaced people.
09:07This was the forced migration of people because of Katrina.
09:12And I think within modern history, that was the first time for a lot of Americans that that happened.
09:18I had never even heard Austin, Texas in my life.
09:25But Austin, they showed us love up there.
09:32But I didn't know where my life was headed from there.
09:35I currently live in Memphis, Tennessee.
09:40However, I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana.
09:43I'm here in Georgia.
09:44I have lost everything in my home.
09:47I live in Norman, Oklahoma.
09:49Houston, Texas.
09:50But I want to go back home.
09:52But now I'm in Georgia.
09:53I was born and raised there.
10:05About a month after leaving the Superdome, once the water receded, I was able to come back
10:13to check on the house in St. Bernard Parish.
10:19You can see the devastation.
10:21Coming back after the city was emptied out, it was strange, for sure.
10:32A city that is known for celebrating, known for its food, known for being loud.
10:36It was dead quiet.
10:43When I came back to New Orleans, everything looked dead.
10:48Everything smelled dead.
10:50It was just desolate.
10:53Just, oh my God.
10:55I could not believe.
10:56I was like, this is never going to be back right.
11:03The graveyard, it's the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.
11:11We have above-ground tombs, but the water saturated the earth, and it made a lot of
11:19the graves come up.
11:21We got caskets coming out, man.
11:23One of my cousins we had just buried, like, not too long ago.
11:27Her casket was actually sitting out in the open, exposed.
11:32Now my people graving.
11:33It's right on top of my people's graves.
11:35Look all around.
11:39This, this, this, this not cool, man.
11:42I don't think anybody after they buried their people, they want to see graves like this,
11:45man.
11:49I wasn't ready for this.
11:50It's one thing to think about the loss.
11:57It's another thing to see it.
12:00When you see it, it's real.
12:02When I saw my home for the first time, I was devastated.
12:10The tears just kind of rolled down my face.
12:13Mud was still inside the home.
12:16It was just a muddy mess.
12:19All of my belongings were ruined, all of my pictures, everything.
12:24I had mold that was like going up to the ceiling, almost.
12:31Birth certificates, pictures, everything was gone.
12:41When you come back to something that has been your dream, and you realize that it has been
12:51destroyed, it was like, what do I do?
13:05Oh, man.
13:09Man, look at my crib.
13:10It smashed down to the ground.
13:13My mama trailer.
13:15Look at my other crib that we just built, leaning to the side.
13:19Look at my crib.
13:21Man, this don't even feel like home, man.
13:27Hey, girl.
13:29Hey, cinema.
13:30Hey.
13:31Hey, girl.
13:32Hey, shake, missy.
13:35Shake, missy.
13:38Mother, though.
13:45She was in the...
13:46She was in this...
13:51Look at that, man.
14:01Look at my shit, man.
14:02My fish ring.
14:04Here's devastation.
14:06Martin Luther King.
14:09I got some of my old letters from the military.
14:11My military books up high, man.
14:18We got to step over stuff, walk through stuff.
14:24Get the stuff.
14:25I can't really get in here.
14:28There's so much mud and dick stuff up in here, man.
14:33It's gonna be enough.
14:34But this house is damn gutted out.
14:38Got dick to mud in here.
14:40I can't get to nothing.
14:41I really can't find what I'm looking for.
14:43But I'll say I guess whatever I got out the deal, I guess it'll be all right, but...
14:51It's gonna be like this, man.
15:06This shit is so fucked up.
15:11Everything you ever worked for, man.
15:12Again on your own.
15:16Even if you ain't had so fucking much, man.
15:18It was like this was yours, you know?
15:30It just leave you confused.
15:34What are we gonna do?
15:35How are we gonna fix this?
15:39And it just seemed like it was unfixable at the time.
15:48Louisiana today officially ended the search for bodies of people killed by Hurricane Katrina.
15:54The death toll in the state now stands at 964.
16:00Because of the heat and the lack of communication and absence of medicine,
16:05a lot of the people we found in home dead were elderly, poor, and disabled.
16:11And they were alone.
16:27My brother, the one that, when we went walking in the water,
16:31kicked the stop sign and put a big hole in his leg.
16:34And he died from an infection.
16:37And my niece that was walking with us,
16:40she had, uh, she had lupus already,
16:42but then she couldn't take her medicine,
16:45so she developed meningitis,
16:47and it moved up to her brains.
16:49So she couldn't talk.
16:51All she could do is lay that with her eyes open.
16:56And so, you know, that was one of the reasons why, uh,
17:00I didn't want to come back to New Orleans,
17:03because I didn't want to have to, like, relive that again.
17:05From the air today, we saw miles of once-flooded houses.
17:14As many as 250,000 homes may be uninhabitable.
17:18In New Orleans, there was anger and frustration today
17:21when a sweeping new blueprint to rebuild the city was unveiled.
17:24Anyone who lives in a neighborhood highlighted here in yellow,
17:28most of the city, could be forced to move.
17:30The plan calls for new parks in green that would help control flooding.
17:34Residents would be resettled in areas circled in red.
17:38This was a plan that somebody had come up with
17:42to turn different areas into, into green spaces for people
17:47that would also be able to capture water during storms.
17:52A great, great idea, except that people actually live there.
17:59When they came up with the plan about the new New Orleans,
18:02it angered me, because many of the areas
18:05where the people at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale
18:08and people who did not have a voice were being discounted.
18:14Immediately, we need to identify and begin assembling properties
18:18that can become part of the system.
18:21The Lower Knight Ward, it was supposed to be a green space.
18:25How are you going to make a green space out of my property?
18:28When the map came out,
18:31the first thing that came to my mind was,
18:33hell no, it was hell no,
18:36because it goes back to the legacy
18:38that that house that I live in provided.
18:41I'm not giving up this man's property,
18:43and even when I'm referring to my grandfather.
18:46Some worry that the black wards of the city
18:48are being intentionally neglected
18:50and may even be bulldozed,
18:52leaving residents displaced and disenfranchised.
18:55It did not go over well with me.
19:00It didn't go well with most of the citizens
19:03who wanted to come back
19:05and rebuild their homes and their life.
19:08And that's when I think folks started to think about
19:12how can we organize and fight back.
19:15Any area of the city of New Orleans
19:19that is sparsely populated,
19:22they are going to want to use the eminent domain
19:25to take over the properties.
19:27We have a resident on the phone,
19:29whoever didn't hear,
19:29we have a resident on the phone right now.
19:31She's watching them at Gavez and Renee,
19:35bulldozing a home.
19:36Give me the city attorney's number!
19:41We will move the people.
19:42Just get your doze and stop.
19:43Ain't no danger as long as they stop.
19:45These are people's homes.
19:48Billy, all right!
19:50Yeah!
19:52Now you got a whole bunch of mad citizens
19:54that's in the city
19:55and gonna get a whole lot mad.
19:58So mad they were screaming today
20:00at the commission
20:00that came up with the rebuilding plan.
20:03Don't tell me about what this public time is.
20:05This is a big, audacious plan.
20:07It was put together
20:07by obviously very brilliant people.
20:10But guess what?
20:11You missed the boat.
20:13In fairness to them,
20:14there were some areas that you knew
20:16because of the elevation
20:17and because of the amount of flooding
20:20that it may have taken on during the storm.
20:22It may have not made sense to rebuild there,
20:25but everything is personal in New Orleans.
20:27For people that grew up here,
20:29their neighborhood is everything.
20:31The high school where they went to is everything.
20:34So if the mayor says
20:35if the city says
20:36this part isn't gonna come back,
20:37we're gonna make this green space,
20:39like, it's going to cut you deep.
20:41I hate you
20:42because you've been in the background
20:44trying to scheme and get our land.
20:48It's been happening.
20:49That's not happening.
20:50We know that they have wildfires in California.
20:54They have tornadoes in the middle of America.
20:58They have flooding in Florida,
20:59but they've never told them,
21:01you can't rebuild.
21:02I don't think it's right
21:04if you try to take our property
21:05because, like I said,
21:08over my dead body.
21:10I didn't die with Katrina.
21:12Bye.
21:17The blowback of it was so bad
21:19that the mayor basically said,
21:22not only are we not doing that,
21:24we're not gonna do anything
21:25except what the localities want us to do.
21:30We as a community
21:32will have the ultimate say
21:34in how we move forward.
21:38If you don't have the resources,
21:40how can you put your life back together?
21:43The people who live
21:46in these more fluent neighborhoods,
21:48they're up here.
21:48So who's gonna need the most resources?
21:51The people who are here
21:52or the people who are down here?
21:54It shouldn't be about equal.
21:55It should be about equity.
21:59How you survive a disaster
22:01is directly proportional
22:02to how well prepared
22:05and how well you all before the disaster.
22:08The bottom line in that,
22:10the poor got poorer
22:11and the rich got richer.
22:12When the federal levees broke 10 years ago,
22:23we in the world gasped
22:24at the possibility
22:26that in the blink of an eye,
22:28New Orleans, as we know it,
22:30would be gone.
22:32But 10 years after Katrina,
22:33we're no longer recovering.
22:34We're not rebuilding.
22:36Now we're creating.
22:38We're in the midst of a retail
22:40and restaurant building boom.
22:42Can you think of any other place
22:44in the world
22:44where you can lose 100,000 people
22:45and gain 600 more restaurants
22:47than we had before Katrina?
22:48I mean, come on.
22:49You want tomatoes on that?
22:51Ladies and gentlemen,
22:52your city is changing
22:53before your eyes.
22:56I'm gonna try this alligator salsa.
22:59It was a tale of two cities.
23:02The rest of the city
23:03was pulling back together.
23:07But go ask those in the night,
23:09what?
23:12Ask them who was left behind.
23:14In some instances,
23:39the city was back,
23:40but it just wasn't back
23:42equitably for everyone.
23:50Louisiana got $10 billion
23:52in federal money
23:53to create and oversee
23:54the Road Home Program.
23:56It's the largest housing recovery effort
23:58in American history.
24:00Our plan offers a fair
24:02and practical solution
24:03to return people
24:04to their homes
24:05and their communities.
24:06This is a great victory
24:08for Louisiana.
24:12The Road Home turned out
24:14to be the road to nowhere
24:16for a lot of people.
24:18The Road Home was supposed
24:19to cover the costs
24:20that insurance
24:21and other federal aid didn't.
24:23People have waited
24:24for months
24:25for clearance of the money
24:26and everything else,
24:28strangled by all this red tape.
24:29Every time you went in there,
24:31applying to the government
24:33for Road Home assistance,
24:34it seemed like
24:35the rules changed
24:37from week to week.
24:39So now you have to expend
24:41more time and energy
24:43and you're still dealing
24:44with the mental effects
24:46of Hurricane Katrina.
24:48It's overwhelming.
24:51The Road Home
24:52had a fatal flaw.
24:53It awarded grants
24:55based on repair costs
24:56or pre-storm value,
24:58whichever was less.
25:00In the poorest neighborhoods,
25:02a home's pre-storm value
25:03tended to be less
25:04than the cost
25:05of repairing
25:06or rebuilding it.
25:07Those neighborhoods
25:08were majority black.
25:11So folks who lived
25:13in Lakeview,
25:15a predominantly white,
25:16upper, middle class
25:17to upper class area
25:19that already had
25:21the resources to rebuild,
25:23they got more money
25:25than folks that lived
25:27in, let's just say,
25:29the Lower Ninth Ward.
25:30Even though the building
25:31materials cost was the same,
25:35a two-by-four for my house
25:37cost the same as a two-by-four
25:39for another person's house.
25:41So why are you going to give me
25:42a different amount of money?
25:44It was like they were
25:46sabotaging the recovery
25:48in areas where black folk lived.
25:51Everybody wants to come home.
25:53It's just that we can't come home
25:54because the government
25:55is trying to keep us
25:56away from home.
25:59It was going to cost
26:00at least $250,000
26:02to repair my property.
26:03I was fully insured.
26:07But I had just borrowed
26:10on the building.
26:11And when I borrowed
26:12on the building,
26:13it was put for collateral.
26:15And when the storm hit
26:17and I went back,
26:19the bank took the money.
26:21They told me
26:22that they weren't giving me anything.
26:25I got zero from Road Home.
26:28Homeowners can choose
26:30repair, rebuild,
26:32accept a buyout
26:33and relocate within Louisiana,
26:35or sell and leave the state.
26:38I started looking at
26:40what they were trying to do.
26:41I'm like,
26:42you're not getting my property
26:43because I am not selling.
26:45But some folks
26:49just did give up
26:51and say,
26:52I don't want this headache.
26:53I'll take the buyout.
26:56And so what they accomplished
26:58with a lot of people
26:59was to get them out
27:01and away from the city.
27:02After like nine and a half years
27:09being in Austin,
27:10I went back to New Orleans.
27:12But when I came back,
27:13it wasn't no more
27:14affordable housing.
27:16No more houses in the hood,
27:18you know,
27:18where you can get
27:19a one-bedroom for $300
27:21and a two-bedroom for $500.
27:27Back in the day,
27:28most of the houses
27:29was doubles.
27:31You know,
27:31a family on this side
27:32and a family on that side.
27:35But after Katrina,
27:38they started making
27:39single houses
27:40out of double houses
27:41like you see here.
27:43That's two families
27:45that's out of a house.
27:47The cost of living
27:49became so high
27:50that I made a decision
27:52to leave New Orleans.
28:01after Katrina,
28:06I knew I couldn't
28:08come back home immediately
28:09since I had to go
28:10and work
28:11and make money.
28:12My dad had been
28:13a master carpenter
28:14for many years,
28:15so I just drove
28:16all the way to California
28:18to work with him.
28:19Now I just got to see
28:22the scenery,
28:23travel where God
28:24want me to travel,
28:26and go back home
28:27eventually.
28:31I just was thinking
28:32about a new beginning
28:33because I knew
28:34what I had left behind.
28:37It was a lot of devastation,
28:38a lot of pain,
28:39so I just had my moments
28:41when I'm like,
28:42you know,
28:42kind of like
28:43singing an old spiritual hymn,
28:45you know,
28:45from like my grandmother
28:47and going through
28:47the mountains.
28:50Lord, I'm climbing
28:51higher mountains
28:56trying to get home.
29:00So that was kind of like
29:01my whole thing.
29:03Like, I just was like,
29:04I'm just trying to get home
29:05and I don't even know
29:06where home is just yet.
29:08Trying to get home
29:10You know I'm climbing
29:13I'm climbing
29:17I'm climbing
29:18I'm climbing
29:22Well, the driving force
29:23behind me
29:24coming back to New Orleans
29:26was my mom's.
29:27My mom, my birthday was...
29:29November 30th.
29:30I made 50 years old,
29:32and that's a blessing.
29:33After the storm,
29:35we had FEMA trailers
29:36all over the land,
29:38and that's another trail
29:39in front of my house.
29:41And from that road home program,
29:42she did receive some money my mom bought this trailer and so with that money my mom finally
29:52bought like a big mobile trailer to make sure we had a place to stay but then maybe about
29:5820 days later my mom's passed away all I have left is these pictures
30:08I kept remodeling I kept working on that house almost complete still have somewhere to go but
30:19as the years start going on the grants start going away eventually I had to move to another
30:26location make more money to be able to come back and put in resources so every now and again I'll
30:31just come back try to touch up on some things whoa a lot of work still left to go up in here but um
30:41something that me was saying for my mom's sake and everything that she did I need to finish the house
30:50even though it was impossible to finish the house
31:00every time I come back here I got memories of my life my mom's my stepdad all my people right there
31:08my neighbor next door she's gone everybody is gone
31:13it's depressing to come here and look around and know that none of these people who know me that
31:19know my story they are no longer here it's like pictures flashing videos flashing of what it used
31:28to be but it's no longer
31:35so when I finally felt like I did all I could do now maybe I felt like um my mom's spirits was all
31:46around me saying it's time to go man you can go it's okay don't worry about it and I love
31:58chatting about what you're hoping that you might be téléphone you'd better understand yourself
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32:07ñ
32:08Hurricane Katrina laid bare the massive failures of the Corps of Engineers hurricane Protection System
32:13of levies and flood walls. Congress gave the corps $14.6 billion to make it right.
32:21all of this was done after Katrina.
32:26If you look at this, you can see the construction of it is different, it's more stable, it goes
32:34down deeper, and it's fortified much better to take stress from rising water or wind.
32:44Since Katrina, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers repaired the levees, many of the repairs are
32:49quite robust. However, the Corps of Engineers themselves recently admitted that when they
32:56determined the heights, they didn't take into account global warming.
33:03No sooner did the Corps of Engineers finish the last piece of that upgrade project than
33:08it posted a notice in the Federal Register saying subsidence and sea level rise will cause
33:13levees to require future lifts.
33:16Within 70 odd years, the water level around New Orleans is going to be four feet higher
33:25than at present. In addition, many of the wetlands are gone, there's no friction. That water can
33:33move much further and get much higher.
33:37As it relates to climate change, communities of color are the ones who are impacted the
33:45first and the worst.
33:49Many folks that live in and among these communities do not have the resources that others have,
33:56and so they are at a higher risk for what's going to happen in the future.
34:03Tonight, Maria's direct hit devastating Puerto Rico.
34:06Unfortunately, it's not going to get any better.
34:10Sweeping devastation in Lahaina.
34:12It's just going to get worse.
34:14The deadliest and most devastating storm in North Carolina history.
34:20This is home. I've been here all my life. But what really gets me, the lower night ward, really the hardest hit area.
34:27It's forgotten.
34:28It's forgotten.
34:31An entire ward of this city, the ninth ward of the city, the 9th Ward of the city, the
34:339th Ward of the city.
34:34This is home. I've been here all my life.
34:40But what really gets me, the Lower Ninth Ward, really the hardest hit area, is forgotten.
34:54An entire ward of this city, the Ninth Ward, appears to be up to its rooftops in water.
35:01I told you earlier today, I didn't think this. It turned out to be Armageddon. I was wrong.
35:06The environmental injustice that is happening in our community, this is man-made.
35:21But that means also it could be man-solved.
35:27See?
35:36I can remember as a little boy, we used to go back there into the swamp.
35:42It was our wonderland, our playground.
35:46Well, it started out small and it grew.
36:02It's a little bit like it was before.
36:17They're planted in cypress trees.
36:24There's an outdoor classroom.
36:30You can fish.
36:33I'm an ambassador to the park.
36:36I welcome people.
36:38I tell them as much as I can about when I was growing up in that same area,
36:43you know, and what we're trying to do.
36:47Because this is something that we are doing for ourselves.
36:53The start over.
36:56A new beginning.
37:00When Katrina hit and it took so many of our elders, it was like losing so much of our history.
37:13They celebrated together.
37:16They praised the Lord together.
37:21It was a true community.
37:26A lot of people couldn't come back.
37:28A lot of people didn't come back.
37:30It's heartbreaking because New Orleans lost a whole, maybe two generations of people.
37:39And that took away a lot of the culture that sits in this area.
37:53And so I wanted to come back into the community and do what I had to do.
38:00And I was not going to stop until I got back to where I intended to be back in 2005.
38:12Every penny I have made since Katrina has gone into me getting back into my salon and my property.
38:24It's mine.
38:25And like I told the people that wrote home, you will have to prime out of my wrinkled up little brown hands to get it.
38:37There's been a lot of changes in New Orleans since Katrina.
38:41You would enter by steps here and you would come into the living room.
38:51The living room ran the width of the lot.
38:56The kitchen would have been right up in here.
39:02This is where mom did all of her famous cooking.
39:05You know, I'm a New Orleans boy.
39:10There's a certain energy that comes out of that land.
39:13That house was an extension of me.
39:18And the most difficult thing was to demolish the house.
39:23I felt like I was taking a piece of me away.
39:29I really came back here because I couldn't stay away.
39:38I wanted to be home.
39:39But now it's the new New Orleans.
39:42It's totally different.
39:45You know, it's like the roots are here, but the tree's been stubbed.
39:52We still have our culture.
39:55And that's a good thing.
40:00A lot of my friends, they kept them masking and Mardi Gras going after Katrina.
40:07See, I talked to my dad.
40:08He said, son, no, I should worry.
40:10That was their life, you know.
40:12And it was my life, too.
40:13He said, Mardi Gras morning, go tell your story.
40:17I'm in a tribe that my father started, the Flamin' Arrows.
40:21We are the Flamin' Arrows.
40:23My dad, he was an Indian chief.
40:25My mom was a seamstress.
40:27We're really not Mardi Gras Indians.
40:30The correct name is just Black Mask and Indians.
40:37On carnival morning, we wear these suits and pay homage to the real native Indians who helped our people.
40:44So it's a family thing passed down through generations.
40:57It's my last time putting on a suit, but I have grandchildren and I'm going to keep the tradition going.
41:04We got to pass the torch down.
41:11One of my cousins who I'm turning my tribe over to, he was like, well, you know, we need you to come back home because we can't let you go out like that.
41:21I still take New Orleans with me wherever I go, but before Katrina I would have never thought that I would have ever left New Orleans.
41:49You know, I just thought that I was going to be a New Orleanian, like all my life.
41:56I mean, I love New Orleans, but it's not the same New Orleans.
42:0520 years later, it's totally different.
42:12The talk is different. The walk is different.
42:15The neighborhoods that we grew up in with our families, it's totally different.
42:20Katrina took a lot, but it didn't take my pride, my dignity, or my culture.
42:33That's one thing I could say about New Orleans.
42:36This is some surviving people.
42:38We are the canaries in this coal mine called America.
42:43The horrors that people went through after Katrina didn't have to happen.
42:48There's no way you could justify to me why Hurricane Katrina turned from a disaster to a tragedy.
43:00I guess the bottom line, it shows how much we cared then for the most vulnerable and how much we care right now.
43:12What would make America great is our ability to reach out and help others in time of need.
43:21But that's where the lesson is learned.
43:25It's upon us.
43:27It's upon us to wake up.
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