“Poor people don’t stand a chance down here.”
LaShandra, who did not want her last name used, was standing on her porch just off of St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans’ St. Roch neighborhood. A few blocks away, the tenth annual Katrina march and secondline, billed this year as the “biggest secondline ever,” wound its way from the site of the Ninth Ward levee breach to Hunter’s Field.
But LaShandra wanted no part of it. Sure, she’d made it back to the city, but she saw little reason to celebrate.
