ABSTRACT
The hours and days following the biblical flood of 2005 in New Orleans are beyond the comprehension of most—except perhaps for those who are well aware of "the great still-unfolding massive crime of official and unofficial America against Africa, African slaves and their descendants in America". Amazingly, just as proponents and practitioners of enslavement considered it the will of God, some misguided people believe that Katrina was God's way of ridding New Orleans of the odious presence of all the Black vermin there prior to the flood. Stanford University sociologist Lawrence Bobo draws a strikingly on-point comparison between the discomfiting wave of post-Katrina media reports exposing the extreme race-based poverty in New Orleans and Derrick Bell's Fourth of July "racial data storms" introduced in "Racism's Secret Bonding", part of his now-classic allegorical social critique Faces at the Bottom of the Well.
