A University of Connecticut history professor recently gave a lecture at Colgate in which he claimed there is “no such thing as a natural disaster” — they’re actually “deeply tied to race, class and state policy.”
According to The Colgate-Maroon News, Andy Horowitz told the audience “[d]isasters are not unpredictable attacks or acts of God that arrive without precedent […] their causes and consequences reach across much longer periods of time and space than we commonly imagined.”
The Connecticut State Historian and author of “Katrina: A History, 1915-2015” said “state policies and environmental changes” were responsible for the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005.
Horowitz (pictured) said beginning in 1915 federal housing policies “pushed many African Americans into low-lying, flood-prone areas.” That demographic also suffered “disproportionately” after the storm had passed. […]
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