¿bl'Jílortlanh © bseruer S e p t e m b e r 14. 2 0 0 5 Page A5 Disaster Brings Outpouringof Activism Images also fan personal injustices Braxton of Metropolitan Afri can M eth o d ist E p isc o p a l Church in Washington — and it has created a rare opportu nity for people of all back grounds to make a tangible, immediate difference. (A P )— To African-Ameri Braxton spoke as his con cans, Hurricane Katrina has gregation loaded a 50-foot trac become a generation-defining tor-trailer with antacid, diapers, catastrophe — a disaster with food, water and other supplies a predom inantly black toll, destined for AME churches in tinged with racism. They’ve Jackson, M iss, and Baton rallied to the cause with an Rouge, La. outpouring o f activism and Katrina has spurred other generosity. black Americans to take cru The people touched by the cial roles in relief efforts. disaster are not only donating Billionaire Mississippi na money but gathering supplies, tive O prah W infrey is bring taking in friends and relatives, Three days after the hurricane hit, ing her top-rated show to the even heading south to help Milvertha Hendricks, 84, waited in the K atrina zone, famed defense shoulder the burden of their rain outside the convention center in attorney W illie Gary is plan New Orleans for help to arrive. people. ning to transport victim s in ‘You’d have to go back to sla- ing neglected, unimportant, over his 737 jet. Tavis Smiley has de very, or the burning of black towns, looked, thought o f as ‘less than. voted much of his television talk to find a comparable event that has T hat’s a very common experience show to Katrina. affected black people this way,” for black people.” said Darnell M. Hunt, a sociologist Some 71 percent of blacks say and head of the African American the response to the disaster shows studies department at UCLA. that racial inequality remains a ma If the rescue effort had not been jo r problem in America, according so mishandled, and if those who to a survey by the Pew Research suffered so needlessly had not been Center for the People & the Press, so black and so poor, perhaps Hur conducted Sept. 6-7 among 1,000 ricane Katrina would have been Americans; 56 percent of whites ju st another destructive storm, feel this was not a particularly im R A N C H E R 'S alongside the likes of Charley and portant lesson. Andrew and Hugo. (There is no And while 66 percent o f blacks --- - TENDER ANGUS - KeishaorK w am e.) think the governm ent's response But Katrina’s searing images — would have been faster if most of linking nature’s wrath and the the victims had been white, 77 per nation’s wrongs — have fanned cent of whites disagreed. the smoldering resentments of the M any events have transfixed civil rights, Reaganomics and hip- A frican-A m ericans: the Rodney hop eras all at once. King and O J . Sim pson cases, the “Something about this is making killings o f icons from M artin people remember their own personal L uther King Jr. to Tupac Shakur, injustices,” said author damali ayo, the crack cocaine epidem ic, the whose book “How to Rent a Ne C larence Thom as confirm ation Rancher’s Reserve gro” takes a satirical look at race hearings. Angus Beef relations. But Katrina is different. It has New York Steak “Y oudon’tlookat Rodney King opened people’s eyes— “The face, Bone-in. 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