https://contemporaryracism.org/3054/predisposed-to-disaster-institutional-racism-and-hurricane-katrina/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/3054/predisposed-to-disaster-institutional-racism-and-hurricane-katrina/comment-page-1/#comment-687 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:39:52 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=3054#comment-687 I see the difficulty you see in this situation, and in some ways it reminds me of the complications of bringing up Michael Brown and Ferguson. Whenever I am talking about issues of institutional racism with other people who I am trying to convince or change their opinions I find that incidence particularly difficult because at the time Brown was robbing a store. Does that justify in any shape or form him being killed? Absolutely not. But it gives people arguing room. Because of this I usually avoid this situation even though I see it as an incident in a great patter, Katrina is an even bigger example and it seems problematic to avoid it but it also is one of the more difficult instances to talk about. Do you try to use the more complicated examples? Or is it strategically better to use more clear cut instances.

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