While some of my colleagues on the other side consider FEMA's equity work to be racial discrimination or take away from the culture of preparedness, those of us working and watching know that storms do not know socioeconomic status, age, race, rural, urban, et cetera.
Carter defends FEMA's equity initiatives against criticism.
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