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Barack Obama: “This disaster was a powerful metaphor for what's gone on for generations.”

On the recordJune 4, 2007
This disaster was a powerful metaphor for what's gone on for generations.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama using the response to Hurricane Katrina as a metaphor for the longstanding neglect of impoverished communities.

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