Screening Question

In Reading Hurricane Katrina, Giroux writes “The Hurricane Katrina disaster, like the
Emmett Till affair, revealed a vulnerable and destitute segment of the nation’s citizenry that conservatives not only refused to see but had spent the better part of two decades demonizing.” Did the destructive nature of Katrina indeed expose clearly the structural racism and systematic discrimination that already exists in society? Particularly the gap between blacks and whites— those who suffered the most and the least? In the film Trouble the Water, Kim and Scott films/narrates their experiences surviving Katrina, the rescue of their friends, and the devastations of their community in the 9th Ward. How effective is their personal footages in revealing “what really happened” during and after Hurricane Katrina? How different is it from the media footages that the public is given?