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 like 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 house, which 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 home that's where things make sense that's my mom

hi mom she's gonna register my nephew for school Terry's 29 years old she She has three kids. Today she's wearing tailored cream colored

pants with a button down tied above her naval. Her tattoos peek out. While we talk

there is a lot going on. Kids, parents, Terry's husband, all run

through the room. Gilbert's a water balloon. There's the constant hum of TV coming up from the playroom.

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