The people who were left behind in New Orleans are the people who are always left: the poor, the people without power, the people that our society doesn’t care about.

Through a gift of marketing, he has promoted the cause of watching hate groups. He has very successfully gained the assets to place the Southern Poverty Law Center on solid financial ground

a model for what others might do. He is in a position to do even more and I suspect that he will.

The disaster that we are observing lays bare the tremendous class stratification of our society,

It reveals the overlap between poverty and race in the U.S.. It also points out the deep poverty that exists in this country. We have a tremendous divide.