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Article Evaluation
"Article Evaluation" Did not talk about government/FEMA's poor response time Strictly facts Talked about all forms of response Made a good timeline that helped follow along The cite links work

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A predominantly black community being affected by Hurricane Katrina was the reason for the poorly received disaster response. Famous musician Kanye West’s sentiment about the disaster, “George Bush does not care about black people,” sparked a lot of controversy and needed conversation on race relations. One researcher argued that Katrina was a racial event, “an occurrence whose character triggers extensive national or local public discussion of issues of race and racism in the United States.” Natural disasters often reveal hidden or ignored social inequalities and this natural disaster was no exception. “Hurricane Katrina was the biggest global news story of 2005, surpassing even the Pope’s death in media coverage (Global Language Monitor 2006).” Across the world, images displayed the demographics of Hurricane Katrina’s victims and they were disproportionately poor blacks. “Given the sustained nationwide reach of the news stories about Katrina, how the media dealt with race in its coverage has important implications for the dominant racial ideology in the United States.” Being poor and black is the worst thing you can be in the American social system and those affected felt the full ramifications of being at the bottom. Although initial hesitance, the media brought up how race played a part in the hurricane. You could not possibly look at the images and videos of all these black people and not mention it. The media tried to bring America’s racist past and present to the forefront of the conversation on Hurricane Katrina, while other American’s blamed it on their government. A media’s role is to give the people enough information to able to self-govern themselves and the only way for people to do that was to hear the truth about how race played a part in this disaster — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rickythomas39 (talk • contribs) 00:13, 19 December 2017 (UTC)