Hurricane Katrina: The impact of

sive damage to New Orleans and surrounding areas. After the hurricane hit, a man-made disas-ter also occurred; the government’s response was slow, poorly executed, and woefully inadequate. Now, years after the hurricane, the recovery and restoration efforts have made far less progress than expected. The disastrous situation in New Orleans may have been “created by lousy engineering, mis-placed priorities, and pork-barrel politics” (Grunwald, 2007). But from the early days after the hurricane, racism was an explanation that was offered and discussed by many. The Reverend Jesse Jackson suggested that the tragic response was due to “a historical indifference to the pain Shifts in justice beliefs induced b