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Disturbing, you know, he gets excited when there are disasters, because he gets restless if everything is just quiet. but we under -- under his leadership, we've revamped fema into a stronger, more efficient agency. in fact the whole federal government has gotten smarter at preventing and recovering from disasters. we have data that shows before the storm, the high school graduation rate was 54%. today it's up to 73%. [ applause ] before the storm, college enrollment was 37%. today it's almost 60%. we still have a long way to go, but that is real progress. new orleans is coming back better and...

Buses to get out. your website says that your department assumes primary responsibility for a national disaster. if you knew a hurricane 3 storm was coming, why weren't buses, trains, planes, cruise ships, trucks, provided on friday, saturday, sunday to evacuate people before the storm? >> tim russert, september 4th, 2005. so basically a week into the rolling american disaster that was hurricane katrina a decade ago. now, that government official who he put on the spit and roasted there, that was george w. bush's homeland security secretary, michael chertoff. he was responsible for governmenta...

Didn't fully understand i think before seeing it put in those terms, the main thesis was that a lot of what explains some of the -- a lot of what explains the racial disparity in the recovery, particularly some things about political representation and whether or not people are governing themselves and people are being governed according to a fair demographic sense, a lot of that is because the poorest neighborhoods and the blackest neighborhoods are neighborhoods that people were less able to come back to, less able to move back into new orleans back into than other neighborhoods that tended ...

There was a public uprising against that plan, but the effect it had is that it delayed, if you will, the comeback of a whole host of neighborhoods, both african-american middle class, working class and even some neighborhoods that were mixed and not necessarily african-american. secondly, the state's primary compensation program, the road home program, in fact was a program that was not evenly, fairly or equitably administered. it was the target of a successful civil rights racial discrimination lawsuit. so the point is even after the immediate, if you will, stumbling and fumbling, there were...

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