It's still broken.

And authoritative voices are going to, I think, come in and wrap everything in a narrative of recovery and wrap everything in how well we've done and how happy it is.

And look at the shiny new restaurants and like the taco trucks.

I really love tacos.

But there's more work to be done.

And if the narrative is that that work is finished, then we're fucked.

This is death, sex, and money in New Orleans.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.

I'm Anna Sale.

So let's talk reality.

Terry Coleman is talking to her students at Dillard University, a historically black college in New Orleans.

These guys are all super smart with super big brains. This is her honors writing class.

It's made up a freshman who've come to campus early to get a head start. So let's talk a little

bit about perception versus reality of the storm. We're going to do the same thing we did yesterday.

To Terry, this conversation about what's real and what's perceived about Katrina is a really

important one. I sit down with her at her perceived about Katrina is a really important one.

I sit down with her at her house, which is a couple of blocks from Dillard.

I just got back from two years in Illinois for grad school, so kind of coming home, that's where things make sense.

That's my mom. Hi, Mom.

She's going to register my nephew for school.

Terry's 29 years old.

She has three kids.

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