Destiny

Floodlines

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Politics, News, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Part VII: People try to come home. But does home want them anymore? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, just a note.
0:02.8	This episode contains the reference to suicide.
0:05.7	In some audio of violence, it might be disturbing for some folks.
0:09.6	Just wanted to give you a heads up before you listen.
0:12.6	Go!
0:13.6	Hey, hey, hey!
0:15.6	Hey!
0:16.6	Hey!
0:17.6	I greet you all in the spirit of peace this morning.
0:20.5	I greet you all in the morning.
0:21.5	In 2006, Mayor Ray Nagan gave a speech on Martin Luther King Junior Day.
0:27.3	Lots of people were still evacuated, scattered across the country.
0:30.6	Everybody in New Orleans is dispersed over 44 different states.
0:36.7	The city was still rebuilding, and Nagan knew that plenty of evacuees were worried
0:41.8	about what would happen to the neighborhoods while they were gone,
0:44.8	that people with power and money might see an empty city as an opportunity for change.
0:50.2	We're debating whether we should open this or close that.
0:54.2	We're debating probably whether property rights should trump everything or not.
0:59.6	We're debating how should we rebuild one of the greatest cultural cities the world has ever seen.
1:07.0	Nagan was trying to rally people.
1:10.0	Really try.
1:11.3	We as black people is time.
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