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...access to open water also means easy access for seawater. The MRGO and two other deepwater channels carved out of the bayou meet at the Industrial Canal just east of New Orleans to form a superchannel that points like a shotgun at the city's low-income, low-elevation Ninth Ward. Hurricanes merely pull the trigger. Both Katrina and Rita brought storm surges from the Gulf and Lake Pontchartrain that crashed unimpeded, blasted past the levee and sank the district...
...point here is not that gay kids don't have to cope with bigotry and bleakness. A Point scholar who asked not to be identified told me he swallowed 17 Tylenols one summer night just before ninth grade--and when that didn't kill him, 30 more the following night. (He merely felt sick the next day; today he is a thriving college student.) He attempted suicide for various reasons--he says his parents ridiculed his desire to pursue acting instead of football--but being gay didn't help. And while Marcel-Keyes says many of her problems have "nothing...
...said, "Joe, if you were black, you'd be in the streets with a machine gun." And so I can sympathize with Rangel and Belafonte-to a point. White racism is the original American sin; it helped create the culture of poverty that exists in places like New Orleans' Ninth Ward. And George W. Bush's dominant Republican Party was reborn in racism, having sided with Southern segregationists in the 1960s. But the tendency of some black baby boomers-the civil rights generation-to attempt to make gains by browbeating white people and ignoring the responsibility of the "victims" themselves...
Seniors skipper Jessica Baker and crew Ruth Schlitz hit a spot of trouble in the C-division, finishing ninth...
Roberta Steele skippered the A-division with junior Kristen Lynch at crew, and the two got off to a rough start, with two 15th-place finishes, but improved over the course of the day. Megan Watson teamed up with junior crew Sam Fink for ninth in the B-division. Neither skipper had sailed in an intercollegiate regatta before...