“The combination of institutionalized injustices, real bad luck, and stunningly incompetent disaster relief heaped relentless hardships on a fragile disapora of households too used to how stress and hardships beget the same. Then they were called out for their names, accused in the press of shooting at their own rescuers, looting their own survival, defamed for rapes that never occurred, ignored for the rapes that did, and in a mythologizing process that is still unfolding, blamed for their own need.” — David Dante Troutt, from his essay “Many Thousands Gone Again,” published in “After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Katrina.”