1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:26,234 --> 00:00:31,531 (HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING) 4 00:00:31,614 --> 00:00:34,117 TED KOPPEL: Yesterday, it was a disaster. 5 00:00:35,994 --> 00:00:37,954 Today, catastrophe. 6 00:00:40,331 --> 00:00:44,335 Our beloved New Orleans, where Katrina hit hardest. 7 00:00:47,714 --> 00:00:49,424 Two of the levees that held back 8 00:00:49,507 --> 00:00:51,926 the waters of Lake Pontchartrain have cracked. 9 00:00:53,553 --> 00:00:55,305 And as the water rises in the city, 10 00:00:55,388 --> 00:00:56,890 there are no immediate answers 11 00:00:56,973 --> 00:00:59,851 as to how and when it will be pumped out again, 12 00:00:59,934 --> 00:01:01,853 or what will remain. 13 00:01:03,772 --> 00:01:06,065 Everything that New Orleans ever was, 14 00:01:06,149 --> 00:01:08,526 in danger of drowning tonight. 15 00:01:10,695 --> 00:01:16,284 (HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING) 16 00:02:39,617 --> 00:02:46,165 ♪ (INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 17 00:03:12,233 --> 00:03:19,240 ♪ ("NOBODY KNOWS" BY PASTOR T.L. 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PLAYING) ♪ 37 00:05:00,341 --> 00:05:03,511 Congratulations, Naquanta. 38 00:05:03,594 --> 00:05:05,096 EDWARD BUCKLES: (CHUCKLES) That's me. 39 00:05:05,179 --> 00:05:07,724 ♪ (R&B MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 40 00:05:07,807 --> 00:05:09,392 EDWARD: Before the storm, 41 00:05:09,475 --> 00:05:11,936 there was nothing like being around my family. 42 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:18,568 Especially my cousins. 43 00:05:25,283 --> 00:05:27,076 I still remember the last time. 44 00:05:29,495 --> 00:05:33,374 It's August 2005, and summer was coming to an end, 45 00:05:33,458 --> 00:05:35,585 -so that meant one thing. -(DOORBELL RINGING) 46 00:05:35,668 --> 00:05:36,836 EDWARD: A back-to-school celebration 47 00:05:36,919 --> 00:05:39,297 at Tina's with all of my cousins. 48 00:05:40,923 --> 00:05:43,801 You see, Tina's house was the hangout spot 49 00:05:43,885 --> 00:05:46,054 for all of the children in my family, 50 00:05:46,137 --> 00:05:48,431 mainly because she had four kids herself 51 00:05:48,514 --> 00:05:49,891 who all were my best friends. 52 00:05:49,974 --> 00:05:51,559 (BICYCLE BELL RINGS) 53 00:05:51,642 --> 00:05:54,187 EDWARD: I still remember that weekend like yesterday, 54 00:05:54,270 --> 00:05:57,231 me and all my cousins just outside, playing, 55 00:05:57,774 --> 00:05:59,484 joking, 56 00:05:59,567 --> 00:06:01,569 and laughing without a care in the world. 57 00:06:06,199 --> 00:06:09,285 Tina made her signature meal, gravy and rice. 58 00:06:12,663 --> 00:06:14,791 I can still remember what it smelled like. 59 00:06:16,918 --> 00:06:19,462 (SNIFFS, SIGHS) 60 00:06:23,091 --> 00:06:24,342 EDWARD: We must have played outside 61 00:06:24,425 --> 00:06:26,886 for hours until the streetlights came on. 62 00:06:27,762 --> 00:06:29,931 (CHILDREN CLAMOR) 63 00:06:30,890 --> 00:06:33,184 (METAL CLANGS) 64 00:06:33,267 --> 00:06:35,103 EDWARD: Once we got inside and ate, 65 00:06:35,186 --> 00:06:37,313 we just all piled up in one room 66 00:06:37,396 --> 00:06:38,981 to enjoy each other's presence 67 00:06:39,065 --> 00:06:41,025 before our parents came to pick us up. 68 00:06:41,109 --> 00:06:42,610 SPEAKER: (OVER TV) It's your boy! 69 00:06:42,693 --> 00:06:43,820 (INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER TV) 70 00:06:43,903 --> 00:06:45,655 TINA: All right now, I'mma see y'all later. 71 00:06:45,738 --> 00:06:46,781 EDWARD: I never would've thought 72 00:06:46,864 --> 00:06:48,157 that would be our last time together 73 00:06:48,241 --> 00:06:49,826 -in that house. -(ENGINE STARTS) 74 00:06:56,624 --> 00:07:02,296 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 75 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:23,568 EDWARD: All right. 76 00:07:25,903 --> 00:07:28,322 Since the storm... 77 00:07:28,406 --> 00:07:31,826 it seems like everybody just moved on. 78 00:07:35,746 --> 00:07:39,750 In America, especially during disaster, 79 00:07:39,834 --> 00:07:41,919 Black children are not even a thought. 80 00:07:44,088 --> 00:07:46,090 Hurricane Katrina was no different. 81 00:07:46,174 --> 00:07:48,384 -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING) 82 00:07:48,467 --> 00:07:49,844 SURVIVOR: See, it's already got a call... 83 00:07:49,927 --> 00:07:51,387 EDWARD: After losing so much, 84 00:07:51,470 --> 00:07:54,974 why wouldn't anyone ask if we were okay? 85 00:07:55,057 --> 00:07:57,643 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 86 00:07:58,978 --> 00:08:00,771 (SINGER HUMMING) 87 00:08:00,855 --> 00:08:02,481 EDWARD: Nobody ever asked the children 88 00:08:02,565 --> 00:08:03,858 how they were doing. 89 00:08:04,775 --> 00:08:10,573 (SINGER HUMMING) 90 00:08:17,371 --> 00:08:18,414 EDWARD: So, I am. 91 00:08:22,001 --> 00:08:26,172 (SINGER HUMMING) 92 00:08:32,178 --> 00:08:33,763 EDWARD: All right? Cierra, 93 00:08:33,846 --> 00:08:35,640 Katrina Babies, take one. 94 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:43,773 EDWARD: Rally, Katrina Babies, interview, take one. 95 00:08:43,856 --> 00:08:45,608 I was 11 years old, 96 00:08:45,691 --> 00:08:47,568 and, uh, the first thing I can remember, 97 00:08:47,652 --> 00:08:50,404 I was knocked out of sleep, man. The first thing I could remember 98 00:08:50,488 --> 00:08:52,156 was just feet running down the hallway. 99 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:53,824 (IMITATES FOOTSTEPS) 100 00:08:53,908 --> 00:08:55,993 And my mama was like, "Get up, get up, get up." 101 00:08:56,077 --> 00:08:58,704 "We got to go, we got to go, we got to go" 102 00:08:58,788 --> 00:09:00,623 Something like that, it's really hard 103 00:09:00,706 --> 00:09:01,791 for you to forget. 104 00:09:01,874 --> 00:09:03,167 Friday, I was at school, 105 00:09:03,251 --> 00:09:04,710 walking the hallways with my friends. 106 00:09:04,794 --> 00:09:07,046 By Monday, I was on top of the fucking roof. 107 00:09:07,129 --> 00:09:10,007 My mom's home crying. My grandmother's home crying. 108 00:09:10,091 --> 00:09:11,550 Our house is destroyed. 109 00:09:11,634 --> 00:09:13,678 Like, it was just too much. Even though I'm young 110 00:09:14,136 --> 00:09:15,346 and, you know, 111 00:09:15,429 --> 00:09:17,431 it's not like I'm stressing how my parents were stressing, 112 00:09:17,515 --> 00:09:18,516 but... 113 00:09:19,475 --> 00:09:20,977 I just was-- I just wasn't comfortable. 114 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:24,814 I couldn't... I couldn't... I couldn't think properly. 115 00:09:25,314 --> 00:09:28,901 EDWARD: 116 00:09:29,193 --> 00:09:30,278 No. 117 00:09:30,361 --> 00:09:31,988 EDWARD: I started interviewing people, 118 00:09:32,071 --> 00:09:33,906 and I didn't know what I was doing, 119 00:09:33,990 --> 00:09:35,533 but I was just like, 120 00:09:35,616 --> 00:09:37,827 "This is a story that needs to be told." 121 00:09:38,619 --> 00:09:39,745 All right. We rolling? 122 00:09:39,829 --> 00:09:41,455 -SPEAKER 1: Yeah. -SPEAKER 2: Mm-hmm. 123 00:09:41,539 --> 00:09:43,916 EDWARD: All right. Katrina Babies, 124 00:09:44,709 --> 00:09:45,876 Betty Buckles, 125 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,838 Betty "Stay Ready" Buckles, take one. 126 00:09:48,921 --> 00:09:51,173 (CHUCKLES) Why you look so scared and serious? 127 00:09:51,257 --> 00:09:52,466 I don't know. I mean, I'm just-- 128 00:09:52,550 --> 00:09:53,884 EDWARD: It don't got to be scary. 129 00:09:53,968 --> 00:09:55,261 I ain't scared. 130 00:09:55,344 --> 00:09:59,181 EDWARD: All right. So, just... just introduce yourself, um... 131 00:09:59,265 --> 00:10:01,100 your-- your name, 132 00:10:01,183 --> 00:10:04,395 uh, your name and who you are. 133 00:10:06,230 --> 00:10:07,815 Oh, okay. 134 00:10:07,898 --> 00:10:09,233 -What you mean who I am? -EDWARD: Yeah. 135 00:10:09,317 --> 00:10:11,652 -Like your... your mama? -EDWARD: Yeah. 136 00:10:11,736 --> 00:10:13,571 (BOTH LAUGHING) 137 00:10:17,408 --> 00:10:20,536 EDWARD: Dad, as a parent, what you remember going through 138 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:22,830 as Hurricane Katrina was approaching, 139 00:10:22,913 --> 00:10:24,790 just like the whole process of Hurricane Katrina? 140 00:10:24,874 --> 00:10:26,250 EDWARD BUCKLES SR: Good question, good question. 141 00:10:26,334 --> 00:10:28,085 'Cause, like, me and my wife and family, 142 00:10:28,169 --> 00:10:31,756 we had decided at first that we was gonna all stay. 143 00:10:31,839 --> 00:10:33,049 You know, we're-- we're just gonna 144 00:10:33,132 --> 00:10:34,508 ride this out. 145 00:10:34,592 --> 00:10:37,345 But that morning, the last day of, 146 00:10:37,428 --> 00:10:39,889 our last day to get out, 147 00:10:39,972 --> 00:10:42,725 my wife had a change of mind, and she said, 148 00:10:42,808 --> 00:10:46,145 "I think we better leave." So, I wasn't in no... 149 00:10:46,228 --> 00:10:48,522 argument mood. I say, "Well, okay. Let's pack up, 150 00:10:48,606 --> 00:10:49,815 and-- and let's leave." 151 00:10:50,775 --> 00:10:51,984 BETTY BUCKLES: Oh, I had been hearing 152 00:10:52,068 --> 00:10:54,695 about the storm for, like, about a whole week or two. 153 00:10:54,779 --> 00:10:59,033 Then, Ray Nagin came on, and Ray Nagin say 154 00:10:59,116 --> 00:11:00,826 to don't play with the storm, 155 00:11:00,910 --> 00:11:04,580 to please get your family and get out of here. 156 00:11:05,623 --> 00:11:07,041 So, I told your daddy, 157 00:11:07,124 --> 00:11:09,210 "We got to leave. We got to leave." 158 00:11:09,293 --> 00:11:12,088 Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you 159 00:11:12,171 --> 00:11:16,759 but we are facing a storm, uh, that most of us have feared. 160 00:11:16,842 --> 00:11:18,719 I do not want to create panic, 161 00:11:18,803 --> 00:11:21,347 but I do want the citizens to understand 162 00:11:21,430 --> 00:11:25,476 that this is very serious, and it's of the highest nature, 163 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:27,395 and it's-- that's why we've taken 164 00:11:27,478 --> 00:11:28,938 this unprecedented move. 165 00:11:34,276 --> 00:11:36,028 SURVIVOR: We're not able to get up and just go. 166 00:11:36,112 --> 00:11:37,905 We don't have transportation. 167 00:11:37,988 --> 00:11:39,573 I mean, we living paycheck to paycheck. 168 00:11:39,657 --> 00:11:41,075 I mean, it ain't like we're just able to 169 00:11:41,158 --> 00:11:42,493 get up or just leave. 170 00:11:44,495 --> 00:11:46,455 SPEAKER: Waiting on the storm, huh? 171 00:11:48,582 --> 00:11:50,668 You going to set up for the storm? 172 00:11:50,751 --> 00:11:51,627 Hurricane. 173 00:11:51,710 --> 00:11:52,837 CHILD: What's up? People getting ready 174 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:54,964 for the hurricane like it's nothing. 175 00:11:55,047 --> 00:11:57,967 (ALL LAUGHING) 176 00:11:58,050 --> 00:12:01,137 My mindset on hurricanes, my thoughts toward them 177 00:12:01,220 --> 00:12:04,056 were they were always gonna come. 178 00:12:04,140 --> 00:12:05,516 Like, seemed like they were gonna come 179 00:12:05,599 --> 00:12:07,935 for New Orleans, and then turn at the last second. 180 00:12:08,018 --> 00:12:09,228 Well, my grandma always say, 181 00:12:09,311 --> 00:12:12,898 like, the Lower Ninth Ward is, like, below sea level. 182 00:12:12,982 --> 00:12:15,276 Like, we can't stay here. 183 00:12:15,359 --> 00:12:18,612 We-- we packed, and I just remember 184 00:12:18,696 --> 00:12:22,533 there was, like, something different, 185 00:12:22,616 --> 00:12:24,201 even though we didn't know it then. 186 00:12:24,285 --> 00:12:26,787 I remember packing my bag 187 00:12:26,871 --> 00:12:29,206 and putting in some, like, pictures 188 00:12:29,290 --> 00:12:31,333 that I had hanging up in my bedroom, 189 00:12:31,417 --> 00:12:35,004 which is not something that you would normally do 190 00:12:35,087 --> 00:12:36,422 when you think you're coming right back. 191 00:12:36,505 --> 00:12:37,923 You know, we didn't even take them serious. 192 00:12:38,007 --> 00:12:39,008 I remember one time, 193 00:12:39,091 --> 00:12:41,886 I was in the Lafitte Projects for a hurricane, 194 00:12:41,969 --> 00:12:43,721 and they had a hurricane block party. 195 00:12:43,804 --> 00:12:46,140 Like, they really had a DJ. Everybody in the project 196 00:12:46,223 --> 00:12:47,975 was right there, dancing and whatnot, eating. 197 00:12:48,058 --> 00:12:49,685 And, like, yeah, the hurricane come tomorrow, 198 00:12:49,768 --> 00:12:51,729 so, we gonna, you know... we're gonna cut up right now, 199 00:12:51,812 --> 00:12:53,063 you know, just in case something happened. 200 00:12:53,147 --> 00:12:55,483 But we always knew it wasn't gonna happen. 201 00:12:55,566 --> 00:12:56,734 Nothing was gonna happen at all. 202 00:12:56,817 --> 00:13:00,070 -We was gonna be good. -You know, my grandma was like, 203 00:13:00,154 --> 00:13:03,199 "Pack up some clothes. Just pack up some clothes. 204 00:13:03,282 --> 00:13:06,160 Get everything you need, pack up some clothes." 205 00:13:06,243 --> 00:13:11,999 I definitely think that me and, like, my friends, 206 00:13:12,082 --> 00:13:13,834 we were just, again, 207 00:13:13,918 --> 00:13:16,962 thinking that this was like a quick one-two, 208 00:13:17,046 --> 00:13:19,507 gone for two or three days, and you come right back. 209 00:13:19,590 --> 00:13:22,092 So, it was still that-- that innocence there 210 00:13:22,176 --> 00:13:23,636 and that sense of, like, 211 00:13:24,637 --> 00:13:25,763 not really thinking 212 00:13:25,846 --> 00:13:27,556 that this was gonna be a big deal. 213 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:30,851 We was, um, in the Lafitte Projects, 214 00:13:30,935 --> 00:13:34,480 and me and my brothers was playing outside 215 00:13:34,563 --> 00:13:36,357 with the other kids. 216 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,528 And all I could feel was, like, this real cold wind. 217 00:13:40,611 --> 00:13:43,072 It was so windy. So, so windy. 218 00:13:43,155 --> 00:13:44,698 And it was, like, real, real cold. 219 00:13:44,782 --> 00:13:46,408 I went to church that Sunday, 220 00:13:46,492 --> 00:13:48,369 the day before the storm, you know? 221 00:13:48,452 --> 00:13:50,621 And the priest was like, uh, I'll never forget this. 222 00:13:50,704 --> 00:13:51,956 The priest looked my dad in the eye. 223 00:13:52,039 --> 00:13:53,958 He was like, "Yeah, y'all evacuating today, huh?" 224 00:13:54,041 --> 00:13:56,085 He said, "Nah." And the priest just looked. 225 00:13:56,168 --> 00:13:57,503 He just had this look in his eye, 226 00:13:57,586 --> 00:13:59,296 and we was walking off. I looked back, 227 00:13:59,380 --> 00:14:00,756 and the priest was just looking like, 228 00:14:00,839 --> 00:14:02,091 you know, like he was confused. 229 00:14:02,174 --> 00:14:04,635 And I will never forget that day in my life, dude. 230 00:14:05,803 --> 00:14:07,805 That Sunday, we woke up, 231 00:14:07,888 --> 00:14:10,057 and my mama was all over the place, 232 00:14:10,140 --> 00:14:11,392 like, "Yo, we leaving." 233 00:14:11,475 --> 00:14:13,561 Like, "Yo, like, I'm not asking you. 234 00:14:13,644 --> 00:14:15,062 I'm telling you. We're leaving. 235 00:14:15,145 --> 00:14:16,438 We're getting the fuck out of here, 236 00:14:16,522 --> 00:14:20,150 and we're going somewhere." My mom is that person that, 237 00:14:21,110 --> 00:14:22,278 like, she has dreams, 238 00:14:22,361 --> 00:14:24,947 and then sometimes those dreams, like, 239 00:14:25,030 --> 00:14:26,865 manifest into something 240 00:14:26,949 --> 00:14:28,409 like, you know, within the family. 241 00:14:28,492 --> 00:14:29,618 Like, she's real spiritual. 242 00:14:29,702 --> 00:14:32,371 So, when she said that, 243 00:14:32,454 --> 00:14:36,333 when-- when like she's like, "God is telling us to leave," 244 00:14:36,417 --> 00:14:39,086 nobody questioned it. It's like, "Yo, we got to go." 245 00:14:40,254 --> 00:14:41,422 "We getting out of here. 246 00:14:41,505 --> 00:14:43,465 Y'all start getting ready. We got to go." 247 00:14:43,549 --> 00:14:45,759 And then everybody just started getting up. 248 00:14:45,843 --> 00:14:48,178 The children didn't seem to be worried about the storm 249 00:14:48,262 --> 00:14:50,264 'cause I guess they didn't really realize 250 00:14:50,347 --> 00:14:52,766 how serious the storm was. 251 00:14:52,850 --> 00:14:54,184 EDWARD: We got rushed into the car, 252 00:14:54,268 --> 00:14:57,730 and we only took like a weekend's worth of clothes. 253 00:14:57,813 --> 00:14:59,106 (INSECTS CHIRPING) 254 00:14:59,189 --> 00:15:00,482 EDWARD: We had evacuated before, 255 00:15:00,566 --> 00:15:03,235 but there was something surreal about this time. 256 00:15:05,446 --> 00:15:06,864 REPORTER: The city of New Orleans needs 257 00:15:06,947 --> 00:15:09,283 to be prepared for what could be as high 258 00:15:09,366 --> 00:15:14,371 and is right now as high as a 175-mile-an-hour hurricane. 259 00:15:14,455 --> 00:15:18,250 There can be no doubt now that we're talking about... 260 00:15:19,209 --> 00:15:21,587 -levees that will overflow. -Right. 261 00:15:24,048 --> 00:15:27,426 EDWARD: The city seemed to be in, like, a frantic state. 262 00:15:27,509 --> 00:15:30,137 People at the gas station for hours. 263 00:15:30,220 --> 00:15:31,513 The gas stations are jam-packed. 264 00:15:31,597 --> 00:15:33,682 People are cursing, people are yelling, 265 00:15:33,766 --> 00:15:37,686 and everybody just has a look of uncertainty 266 00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:39,521 and fear on their faces. 267 00:15:43,233 --> 00:15:47,488 (RAIN TRICKLING) 268 00:15:53,452 --> 00:15:59,291 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 269 00:16:07,383 --> 00:16:10,010 MIDCITY AB : You know, it sounded like the apocalypse was outside, 270 00:16:10,094 --> 00:16:11,303 but I still was ignoring it. 271 00:16:11,387 --> 00:16:13,639 And then the electricity went out. 272 00:16:13,722 --> 00:16:15,974 So, I'm just sitting there, listening to all this rain. 273 00:16:16,058 --> 00:16:17,434 I hear, like, um, 274 00:16:17,518 --> 00:16:19,770 all type of animals outside, crying, too. 275 00:16:19,853 --> 00:16:21,230 Rain, wind, and all that. 276 00:16:21,313 --> 00:16:24,316 So, I go into bed with my dad 'cause, you know, I'm scared. 277 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,069 But I remember you can see out... 278 00:16:27,945 --> 00:16:29,363 see out the house 279 00:16:29,446 --> 00:16:32,408 'cause we had a-- a screen door on the side of the house. 280 00:16:32,491 --> 00:16:35,119 And I'm just looking at all these things fly by, 281 00:16:35,202 --> 00:16:37,037 and, uh, trees looking like 282 00:16:37,121 --> 00:16:38,914 they about to come out of the ground. 283 00:16:38,997 --> 00:16:40,207 And that's when I really realized, 284 00:16:40,290 --> 00:16:42,376 "Oh, this ain't a game," you know? 285 00:16:42,459 --> 00:16:44,086 I remember it was real, real late. 286 00:16:44,169 --> 00:16:47,005 Like, it had to be, like, almost midnight. 287 00:16:47,089 --> 00:16:51,844 And I was up with my mom and, like, my brothers, 288 00:16:52,302 --> 00:16:54,054 and we heard 289 00:16:54,138 --> 00:16:56,807 a loud, loud noise, like a boom, 290 00:16:56,890 --> 00:16:58,434 like a bang, something like that. 291 00:16:58,517 --> 00:17:00,602 -It was loud. -EDWARD: What was it? 292 00:17:00,686 --> 00:17:03,647 Um. It was the levees. They broke. 293 00:17:03,981 --> 00:17:05,190 And... 294 00:17:06,483 --> 00:17:10,237 I don't know. Like, then it just got all calm, 295 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:15,075 and like, I just went to sleep. And then, I woke up 296 00:17:15,159 --> 00:17:21,457 to one of my uncle's friends banging on my mom's door. 297 00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:24,710 And like she walked outside, and it was like... 298 00:17:25,586 --> 00:17:27,129 -flooded. -(THUNDER RUMBLES) 299 00:17:27,629 --> 00:17:29,298 (WIND GUSHING) 300 00:17:29,381 --> 00:17:31,884 EDWARD: As the storm was approaching New Orleans... 301 00:17:33,552 --> 00:17:36,430 my family and I were on the road. 302 00:17:36,513 --> 00:17:39,183 What should have been a two-hour drive 303 00:17:39,266 --> 00:17:40,684 turned into 13 hours... 304 00:17:41,685 --> 00:17:43,562 because of the insane traffic. 305 00:17:43,645 --> 00:17:46,690 My parents were just so anxious and tense. 306 00:17:50,235 --> 00:17:52,988 We were hot, and it was dark as hell. 307 00:17:53,781 --> 00:17:57,868 (RAIN TRICKLING) 308 00:18:04,124 --> 00:18:07,461 I remember us stopping in this really, really rural, 309 00:18:07,544 --> 00:18:09,922 creepy southern Louisiana town. 310 00:18:11,757 --> 00:18:14,343 They had opened up the flea market to be shelter 311 00:18:14,426 --> 00:18:17,137 for people that were coming from New Orleans. 312 00:18:20,098 --> 00:18:23,101 I don't know if it was because of how exhausted I was 313 00:18:23,185 --> 00:18:26,688 or maybe I was a little bit scared-- scared at the time. 314 00:18:26,772 --> 00:18:28,607 I don't know, but it's like a blur. 315 00:18:29,775 --> 00:18:32,277 I just remember us going to a corner, 316 00:18:32,361 --> 00:18:36,657 and all the kids laid down on this hard-ass floor. 317 00:18:37,241 --> 00:18:38,283 And the whole time, 318 00:18:38,367 --> 00:18:40,661 I was thinking about Tina and my cousins. 319 00:18:42,412 --> 00:18:43,914 They had stayed in New Orleans. 320 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,336 (WIND WHOOSHING) 321 00:18:50,963 --> 00:18:53,257 EDWARD: My dreams must have been so crazy that night. 322 00:18:55,300 --> 00:18:58,804 (WATER BURBLING) 323 00:18:58,887 --> 00:19:02,933 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 324 00:19:03,809 --> 00:19:08,522 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 325 00:19:08,605 --> 00:19:12,901 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 326 00:19:12,985 --> 00:19:15,696 I remember we woke up... 327 00:19:17,281 --> 00:19:18,699 and like the press was there. 328 00:19:18,782 --> 00:19:20,868 Like, you know, the local news station was there. 329 00:19:22,286 --> 00:19:26,206 And I remember they pulled out 330 00:19:26,290 --> 00:19:29,042 a television, almost like, you know like, 331 00:19:29,126 --> 00:19:30,294 almost like in like the '90s, 332 00:19:30,377 --> 00:19:32,588 when you were in school and, like, it was a free day, 333 00:19:32,671 --> 00:19:34,840 you know, and the teacher rolled the television out. 334 00:19:34,923 --> 00:19:36,717 They, like, rolled the television out 335 00:19:37,509 --> 00:19:39,094 for us to see, like the news. 336 00:19:39,177 --> 00:19:40,929 And I remember 337 00:19:41,930 --> 00:19:42,931 seeing... 338 00:19:43,849 --> 00:19:46,768 like, New Orleans underwater. 339 00:19:46,852 --> 00:19:54,276 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 340 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:57,279 EDWARD: And... and then I saw 341 00:19:57,362 --> 00:19:59,489 that Circle Food Store was underwater. 342 00:20:01,158 --> 00:20:02,659 That was Tina's neighborhood. 343 00:20:02,743 --> 00:20:04,286 That was my cousin's neighborhood. 344 00:20:06,622 --> 00:20:08,457 As a child, I'm just like, 345 00:20:08,540 --> 00:20:10,459 "This neighborhood is underwater, 346 00:20:10,542 --> 00:20:11,919 so are my cousins." 347 00:20:13,587 --> 00:20:16,256 (BIRDS CHIRPING) 348 00:20:19,343 --> 00:20:25,557 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 349 00:20:34,024 --> 00:20:37,027 I remember, I asked one of the adults, 350 00:20:37,110 --> 00:20:39,905 "Wait. Like, if all of this is underwater, 351 00:20:39,988 --> 00:20:41,782 what happened to the people who stayed behind? 352 00:20:41,865 --> 00:20:43,617 Like... like where are they?" 353 00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:46,119 And, like, you know, she was like... (CHUCKLES) 354 00:20:46,203 --> 00:20:49,247 ...like, looked me dead in my eye as a kid and said, 355 00:20:49,331 --> 00:20:52,125 "Everybody who stayed in New Orleans is dead!" 356 00:20:52,209 --> 00:20:53,418 And, like I just started crying, 357 00:20:53,502 --> 00:20:56,380 like instantly. I just started crying. 358 00:20:56,463 --> 00:20:59,299 Looking at the TV screen and her saying that, 359 00:20:59,383 --> 00:21:00,509 it seemed like it was true. 360 00:21:04,596 --> 00:21:05,555 (PHONE RINGING) 361 00:21:05,639 --> 00:21:07,683 POLICE OPERATOR: Police operator, one-six... 362 00:21:07,766 --> 00:21:09,518 SURVIVOR 1: I need someone out here, ma'am. 363 00:21:09,601 --> 00:21:11,103 I'm gonna die in this attic. 364 00:21:14,439 --> 00:21:17,401 The water's started rising in the attic, ma'am, 365 00:21:18,568 --> 00:21:20,362 and I'mma drown in the attic. 366 00:21:23,073 --> 00:21:24,533 POLICE OPERATOR: Is there any way you can get 367 00:21:24,616 --> 00:21:25,867 to the roof if need be? 368 00:21:25,951 --> 00:21:27,119 SURVIVOR 2: I'm stuck in the attic, 369 00:21:27,202 --> 00:21:29,413 me and my little sister here, and my mama, 370 00:21:29,496 --> 00:21:31,248 and we got water in our whole house. 371 00:21:35,585 --> 00:21:37,462 SURVIVOR 3: We're, like, under nine feet of water here, 372 00:21:37,546 --> 00:21:38,755 and we're trying to get out. 373 00:21:38,839 --> 00:21:42,843 We have a baby. There's five of us. We're very frightened. 374 00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:47,472 We opened the attic. We punched a hole in the attic. 375 00:21:47,556 --> 00:21:50,475 But the helicopter keeps passing us. 376 00:21:50,559 --> 00:21:52,519 SURVIVOR 4: The helicopters, they'll pass over us, 377 00:21:52,602 --> 00:21:53,854 but they won't stop. 378 00:21:58,608 --> 00:21:59,818 SURVIVOR 5: We sitting on the porch, 379 00:21:59,901 --> 00:22:01,987 looking at the water rising up, 380 00:22:02,070 --> 00:22:03,780 and we don't have no way to get out 381 00:22:03,864 --> 00:22:05,532 or nothing. It's just coming up. 382 00:22:05,615 --> 00:22:12,039 ♪ (INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 383 00:22:17,627 --> 00:22:18,879 EDWARD: In New Orleans, 384 00:22:19,963 --> 00:22:21,840 I think that one thing that we had 385 00:22:21,923 --> 00:22:23,383 to our advantage 386 00:22:24,217 --> 00:22:26,428 is family... 387 00:22:26,511 --> 00:22:31,433 and the warmth of like, you know, like, of like a home. 388 00:22:31,516 --> 00:22:35,103 Our houses are very cozy. Our hospitality is very good. 389 00:22:35,187 --> 00:22:37,064 The houses smell like good food. 390 00:22:41,026 --> 00:22:43,653 I know what Tina's house was for me. 391 00:22:43,737 --> 00:22:46,114 Um... and like, I knew how comfortable 392 00:22:46,198 --> 00:22:48,742 and like how warm it was. You know what I'm saying? 393 00:22:54,331 --> 00:22:56,083 This is one of my favorite ones. 394 00:22:59,711 --> 00:23:03,673 And that's me, Quentin, Kiyara, 395 00:23:03,757 --> 00:23:06,635 Shirley, and that's my mom in the back. 396 00:23:06,718 --> 00:23:08,553 And this is at the house. 397 00:23:08,637 --> 00:23:10,514 Uh... this is at one of the houses 398 00:23:10,597 --> 00:23:12,307 that Tina stayed in before Katrina. 399 00:23:13,850 --> 00:23:16,103 Like as you can see, they got the wood panels, 400 00:23:16,186 --> 00:23:19,189 -like, just... (CHUCKLES) -(PHONE RINGING) 401 00:23:19,272 --> 00:23:20,607 (CAMERA CLICKS) 402 00:23:20,690 --> 00:23:22,317 -TINA: Hello? -EDWARD: What's up, Tina? 403 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:23,693 -(CAMERA CLICKS) -TINA: Hey, man. 404 00:23:23,777 --> 00:23:25,362 What's going on? 405 00:23:25,445 --> 00:23:28,281 EDWARD: I hadn't seen Tina and my cousins in years. 406 00:23:31,368 --> 00:23:38,083 ♪ (INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 407 00:23:40,585 --> 00:23:42,587 EDWARD: I could smell Tina's gravy and rice 408 00:23:42,671 --> 00:23:44,089 all the way to Shreveport. 409 00:23:59,020 --> 00:24:01,022 -What's happening? -TINA: Hey, baby. 410 00:24:01,106 --> 00:24:02,524 -What's up? -TINA: I said, Lord, 411 00:24:02,607 --> 00:24:03,900 I hope-- I sure hope... 412 00:24:03,984 --> 00:24:05,485 Boy, I ain't camera ready. 413 00:24:05,569 --> 00:24:07,362 -You got me on the camera. -(CHUCKLES) 414 00:24:07,445 --> 00:24:09,614 -New Orleans classic. Big Shots. -Oh, my God. 415 00:24:09,698 --> 00:24:10,991 -You know what I'm saying? -Yes. Check it. 416 00:24:11,074 --> 00:24:12,868 Come on, now. Come on with it. 417 00:24:12,951 --> 00:24:14,995 -Y'all didn't know. (CHUCKLES) -I'll drink it hot. 418 00:24:15,078 --> 00:24:19,332 It don't even have to be cold. I'll drink it hot, I swear. 419 00:24:19,416 --> 00:24:21,835 TINA: So, yeah, like I was saying, it was, um... 420 00:24:22,878 --> 00:24:25,839 it was part of my depression, where I 421 00:24:25,922 --> 00:24:28,091 was so lonesome and homesick, 422 00:24:29,134 --> 00:24:30,886 I stopped combing my hair, 423 00:24:31,803 --> 00:24:35,348 like, literally. And, uh... 424 00:24:35,432 --> 00:24:38,226 it had got so thick and full, and, 425 00:24:39,102 --> 00:24:40,478 so, I said, "Well... 426 00:24:41,563 --> 00:24:42,981 I don't know nobody up here. 427 00:24:43,607 --> 00:24:45,358 I don't need to 428 00:24:45,442 --> 00:24:48,612 put all that maintenance and stuff like that in my hair." 429 00:24:50,155 --> 00:24:53,116 Just kind of became a hermit in the house. 430 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:54,534 You know what I'm saying? 431 00:24:54,618 --> 00:24:58,955 I said, "Well, I'mma just wear my hair natural." 432 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:00,332 EDWARD: It looks good. 433 00:25:04,085 --> 00:25:10,884 (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) 434 00:25:13,553 --> 00:25:15,639 TINA: When the storm actually hit 435 00:25:15,722 --> 00:25:18,516 everybody I think was still kind of asleep 436 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:19,935 or just waking up. 437 00:25:20,018 --> 00:25:23,563 But all of a sudden, we felt the house just... 438 00:25:24,814 --> 00:25:26,191 it almost sounded like a train. 439 00:25:26,274 --> 00:25:28,944 It was shaking, wobbling, you know? 440 00:25:31,279 --> 00:25:34,074 My husband told me to look out of the window. 441 00:25:34,157 --> 00:25:40,080 The water was at the window, so we were surrounded by water. 442 00:25:40,163 --> 00:25:42,040 We-- we were surrounded by water. 443 00:25:45,043 --> 00:25:46,211 SHIRLEY: When the water was rushing in, 444 00:25:46,294 --> 00:25:48,380 I think the only thing I was thinking 445 00:25:48,463 --> 00:25:52,884 was, like, I was like in a-- mesmerized by, I guess, 446 00:25:52,968 --> 00:25:54,844 kind of, by how it was like... 447 00:25:54,928 --> 00:25:57,472 you know, that-- that shit was like a movie, like... 448 00:25:57,555 --> 00:25:59,057 it was like rushing in, 449 00:25:59,140 --> 00:26:00,558 and then we was trying to get off. 450 00:26:00,642 --> 00:26:01,643 We ran to the back. 451 00:26:01,726 --> 00:26:03,478 But literally, we sitting on the bed, 452 00:26:03,561 --> 00:26:05,772 literally, and the water just like this, 453 00:26:05,855 --> 00:26:07,274 -as we're sitting on the bed. -EDWARD: Damn. 454 00:26:07,357 --> 00:26:09,109 The people's dog and this dude was floating. 455 00:26:09,192 --> 00:26:11,820 Their dog was dead, just floating on the water. 456 00:26:11,903 --> 00:26:12,988 -EDWARD: Damn. -Floating about 457 00:26:13,071 --> 00:26:14,781 like around our house, or whatever. 458 00:26:17,284 --> 00:26:19,327 TINA: I think everybody was just trying to find 459 00:26:19,411 --> 00:26:20,787 their mental comfort 460 00:26:20,870 --> 00:26:24,291 of how to handle what was going on. 461 00:26:24,374 --> 00:26:27,043 -EDWARD: Right. -And, uh, so I had said, 462 00:26:27,127 --> 00:26:29,170 "Well, okay. Let's sing." 463 00:26:29,254 --> 00:26:32,090 And that's what we did. We-- we sung hymns. 464 00:26:32,173 --> 00:26:33,341 We sung, 465 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,260 you know, R&B. 466 00:26:35,343 --> 00:26:38,179 Like, we just formed our own little choir, 467 00:26:38,263 --> 00:26:39,806 so we was just in there singing. 468 00:26:39,889 --> 00:26:43,435 And for two days when the world was thinking 469 00:26:43,518 --> 00:26:46,980 that no one was left in New Orleans or in Katrina, 470 00:26:47,063 --> 00:26:49,357 we were still in our attic. 471 00:26:50,608 --> 00:26:53,486 TINA: The boat pulled up into the living room... 472 00:26:55,030 --> 00:26:58,033 because the whole front of the house, 473 00:26:58,116 --> 00:27:00,285 the water had collapsed it, or whatever. 474 00:27:00,368 --> 00:27:03,496 -(BABY CRYING) -TINA: And we got out of there. 475 00:27:06,041 --> 00:27:08,668 There was really a eerie silence... 476 00:27:08,752 --> 00:27:12,255 (BOAT ENGINE WHIRRING) 477 00:27:12,339 --> 00:27:13,715 TINA: ...and I think everybody 478 00:27:13,798 --> 00:27:16,801 was so overwhelmed and taken by 479 00:27:16,885 --> 00:27:20,347 how the city, their neighborhoods, 480 00:27:20,430 --> 00:27:21,848 was underwater. 481 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:23,892 The water was so deep, 482 00:27:23,975 --> 00:27:27,520 you saw just that very low point of the stop sign. 483 00:27:30,023 --> 00:27:33,485 It was just-- just like a dead calm. 484 00:27:33,568 --> 00:27:38,823 You didn't even hear birds or anything. 485 00:27:38,907 --> 00:27:41,201 It's almost like what you read in the Bible 486 00:27:41,284 --> 00:27:44,871 about the great flood, and it was just... 487 00:27:44,954 --> 00:27:48,166 water. You're surrounded by water, 488 00:27:48,249 --> 00:27:51,920 you know? And you're looking for that dove 489 00:27:52,003 --> 00:27:55,215 to come back and say it's dry land, 490 00:27:55,298 --> 00:27:57,384 but there was no bird in sight. 491 00:28:03,348 --> 00:28:10,146 ♪ (SOMBER GOSPEL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 492 00:28:13,691 --> 00:28:16,778 TINA: And I looked back, and I saw 493 00:28:16,861 --> 00:28:19,364 that my house was the only house 494 00:28:19,447 --> 00:28:20,865 still standing. 495 00:28:29,249 --> 00:28:30,917 Me personally, I thought we was gonna die. 496 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,461 Like, you know, 497 00:28:33,545 --> 00:28:34,921 the furniture is floating in here. 498 00:28:35,004 --> 00:28:36,506 Like, you know, if you look outside, 499 00:28:36,589 --> 00:28:37,590 you don't see nothing. 500 00:28:37,674 --> 00:28:40,343 Like, we finna die. Like, we gonna die here. 501 00:28:40,427 --> 00:28:42,846 Like, that's just what it is, you know? So... 502 00:28:43,555 --> 00:28:44,639 and we stranded. 503 00:28:44,722 --> 00:28:46,724 We aint-- This not-- We wasn't here for one day, 504 00:28:46,808 --> 00:28:48,184 or we wasn't in here for 12 hours. 505 00:28:48,268 --> 00:28:50,979 We was in here three days. We were up here three days. 506 00:28:51,062 --> 00:28:52,689 Then we go... 507 00:28:52,772 --> 00:28:54,816 to, uh, we go... from here, we get rescued 508 00:28:54,899 --> 00:28:58,278 and go get shipped into a concentration-camp structure. 509 00:28:58,361 --> 00:28:59,571 Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, 510 00:28:59,654 --> 00:29:00,738 I'd never fight for this country. 511 00:29:00,822 --> 00:29:02,949 I don't depend on it. I can't depend on it. 512 00:29:03,032 --> 00:29:04,242 Like, I'd never fight for it, 513 00:29:04,325 --> 00:29:06,119 just on the strength of Hurricane Katrina. 514 00:29:06,202 --> 00:29:08,455 And I was 11 years old when I made that decision. 515 00:29:08,538 --> 00:29:12,292 (BOAT ENGINE WHIRRING) 516 00:29:18,047 --> 00:29:21,593 (SIGHS) With the water, like, it's like the water's there. 517 00:29:21,676 --> 00:29:25,180 And I go outside, and I'm just like, "What?" 518 00:29:25,263 --> 00:29:27,474 I'm just looking around, like, "What?" 519 00:29:28,099 --> 00:29:29,809 I hear a lot of screams. 520 00:29:30,768 --> 00:29:34,772 And the guy next door, he had a boat. 521 00:29:34,856 --> 00:29:36,483 I don't know where this boat came from, 522 00:29:36,566 --> 00:29:38,443 but he had a boat, and he was like, 523 00:29:38,526 --> 00:29:39,819 "I'm bringing y'all-- I'm bringing y'all 524 00:29:39,903 --> 00:29:41,070 to the bridge." 525 00:29:41,154 --> 00:29:42,530 "I'm bringing y'all to the bridge. 526 00:29:45,158 --> 00:29:46,784 ♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 527 00:29:52,749 --> 00:29:56,669 (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) 528 00:29:58,087 --> 00:29:59,172 (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) 529 00:30:00,924 --> 00:30:02,217 (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) 530 00:30:04,260 --> 00:30:05,220 (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) 531 00:30:18,399 --> 00:30:24,030 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 532 00:30:26,908 --> 00:30:31,621 (HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING) 533 00:30:34,666 --> 00:30:36,501 MIESHA WILLIAMS: We went to the convention center... 534 00:30:37,877 --> 00:30:38,920 and... 535 00:30:39,629 --> 00:30:41,881 it was-- it was weird. 536 00:30:46,511 --> 00:30:48,054 I saw a dead man on the street. 537 00:30:49,180 --> 00:30:50,598 It was scary. 538 00:30:50,682 --> 00:30:53,017 Like, "What?" Like, "Am I gonna die?" 539 00:30:53,101 --> 00:30:55,311 Like, I started questioning things now. 540 00:30:57,146 --> 00:31:01,901 I-- I just smell like-- like feces, 541 00:31:01,985 --> 00:31:04,404 just lingering from the bathroom, 542 00:31:04,487 --> 00:31:06,739 and just people just looked like... 543 00:31:07,991 --> 00:31:11,202 just-- just sad, just real sad. 544 00:31:13,496 --> 00:31:16,207 I don't know. I just was like, "I'm not supposed to be here." 545 00:31:16,291 --> 00:31:17,458 That's how I felt. 546 00:31:17,542 --> 00:31:20,670 Like, "What? Like, this is not real." 547 00:31:23,881 --> 00:31:27,927 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 548 00:31:43,526 --> 00:31:45,653 I don't want to cry. (SOBS) 549 00:31:47,614 --> 00:31:49,949 -(SOBS) Sorry. -EDWARD: It's okay. 550 00:31:52,327 --> 00:31:53,578 Just take your time. 551 00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:57,290 It's okay. Like, wait. So, um, wait. 552 00:31:57,373 --> 00:31:59,417 So, like, have you ever talked about this before? 553 00:32:01,085 --> 00:32:03,171 No, I haven't. 554 00:32:03,254 --> 00:32:04,464 EDWARD: Why is that? 555 00:32:05,506 --> 00:32:07,842 I don't know. Nobody never asked me. 556 00:32:16,934 --> 00:32:18,019 EDWARD: Can we take five? 557 00:32:23,941 --> 00:32:25,568 SPEAKER: Hey, buddy, are you good? 558 00:32:25,652 --> 00:32:26,903 Hey, I'm tired, man. 559 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,701 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 560 00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:36,996 Hey, put me on here. They got us living up in here, 561 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:41,834 bad! They got babies up in here, and it's unsanitized up in here! 562 00:32:41,918 --> 00:32:43,419 It is bad up in here! 563 00:32:43,503 --> 00:32:45,296 Children burning up and everything! 564 00:32:45,380 --> 00:32:47,799 Get us out of this place! 565 00:32:47,882 --> 00:32:50,718 We had several people died out here 566 00:32:50,802 --> 00:32:54,555 and, you know, I don't want to become one of them. 567 00:32:54,639 --> 00:32:57,225 They say what they're gonna do, 568 00:32:57,308 --> 00:32:59,936 but they're not doing anything for us 569 00:33:00,019 --> 00:33:02,438 to try to help us survive and live, you know? 570 00:33:02,522 --> 00:33:05,441 (VIDEO REWINDING) 571 00:33:05,525 --> 00:33:09,237 We just need some help out here. It is so pitiful. 572 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,825 Pitiful and shame that all these people out here, 573 00:33:13,908 --> 00:33:16,035 they have over 3,000 people out here 574 00:33:16,119 --> 00:33:17,787 with no home, no shelter. 575 00:33:17,870 --> 00:33:19,414 -What are they gonna do? -ARIANNA: I don't even think I honestly thought... 576 00:33:19,497 --> 00:33:20,957 -What are we gonna do? -...twice about it. 577 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,166 I saw a camera guy, 578 00:33:22,250 --> 00:33:25,253 and I just walked up to them, and I basically just... 579 00:33:25,336 --> 00:33:26,462 kind of pulled my face 580 00:33:26,546 --> 00:33:28,256 really closely towards the camera, 581 00:33:28,339 --> 00:33:31,676 and I spoke eloquently. Like, I spoke. 582 00:33:31,759 --> 00:33:33,594 Um. And I was basically, back then, 583 00:33:33,678 --> 00:33:37,390 I was the voice for many people that couldn't actually, 584 00:33:37,473 --> 00:33:39,851 couldn't or wouldn't speak for themselves. 585 00:33:39,934 --> 00:33:43,771 I felt that there were certain circumstances 586 00:33:43,855 --> 00:33:48,025 that were totally unacceptable, that were not cool. Um... 587 00:33:48,109 --> 00:33:50,570 My grandmother had like, actually, literally, 588 00:33:50,653 --> 00:33:51,696 ran out of her insulin, 589 00:33:51,779 --> 00:33:53,072 and my grandmother was a diabetic. 590 00:33:53,156 --> 00:33:55,116 But I didn't realize that, that was something 591 00:33:55,199 --> 00:33:57,076 that she could go without. 592 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:58,870 I felt as though during that time 593 00:33:58,953 --> 00:34:00,121 that it was a necessity, 594 00:34:00,204 --> 00:34:01,789 that this was something that she needed. 595 00:34:01,873 --> 00:34:02,915 And during that time, 596 00:34:02,999 --> 00:34:04,667 my grandmother was everything to me, 597 00:34:04,751 --> 00:34:07,795 and I was really afraid, um, and petrified, 598 00:34:07,879 --> 00:34:12,508 and really afraid the most that I would possibly lose her. 599 00:34:12,592 --> 00:34:15,636 My grandmother is a diabetic. She's 76 years old. 600 00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:18,181 She's out of her insulin. What's she gonna do? 601 00:34:18,264 --> 00:34:20,266 She don't know if she gonna live or die. 602 00:34:20,349 --> 00:34:22,769 We all don't know what we gonna do. 603 00:34:22,852 --> 00:34:25,980 So, we just need some help and support. 604 00:34:29,025 --> 00:34:34,739 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 605 00:34:34,822 --> 00:34:40,578 (CROWD CLAMORING) 606 00:34:46,584 --> 00:34:48,211 EDWARD: People lost their homes. 607 00:34:50,213 --> 00:34:54,091 People didn't have food, water. It was hot as hell out there. 608 00:34:55,176 --> 00:34:58,262 People were doing what they had to do. 609 00:34:58,346 --> 00:35:02,642 KANYE WEST: I hate the way they portray us in the media. 610 00:35:02,725 --> 00:35:06,145 If we see a Black family, it says they're looting. 611 00:35:06,229 --> 00:35:07,271 If you see a White family, 612 00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:08,981 it says they're looking for food. 613 00:35:09,065 --> 00:35:10,733 REPORTER: The things that I witnessed today, 614 00:35:10,817 --> 00:35:13,945 Ted, I-- I-- I will never forget. 615 00:35:14,028 --> 00:35:16,322 Looting on a scale 616 00:35:16,405 --> 00:35:19,158 that was just so staggering, so overwhelming. 617 00:35:19,242 --> 00:35:21,702 The city has been ravaged by the hurricane. 618 00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:24,413 And now, it's being ravaged by some of its citizens. 619 00:35:24,497 --> 00:35:29,502 CROWD: We want help! We want help! We want help! 620 00:35:33,756 --> 00:35:37,885 We can't make it. You said if we need You, to call You. 621 00:35:37,969 --> 00:35:41,305 And we are asking You in the mighty name of Jesus, 622 00:35:41,389 --> 00:35:42,974 there is none like You. 623 00:35:43,057 --> 00:35:45,726 KANYE: And you know it's been five days 624 00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:48,646 because most of the people are Black, 625 00:35:48,729 --> 00:35:52,191 and the way America is set up to help the poor, 626 00:35:52,275 --> 00:35:53,526 the-- the Black people, 627 00:35:53,609 --> 00:35:56,237 the less well-off as slow as possible. 628 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,782 Praise the Lord! Merciful and strong you are, Lord. 629 00:35:59,866 --> 00:36:01,868 Lord, we know you're gonna make a way, Lord. 630 00:36:01,951 --> 00:36:07,290 (MONITOR STATIC) 631 00:36:15,172 --> 00:36:17,508 SURVIVOR: Power belongs to God. 632 00:36:19,176 --> 00:36:20,261 It's just racist. 633 00:36:25,683 --> 00:36:28,269 George Bush doesn't care about Black people. 634 00:36:46,287 --> 00:36:53,127 ♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 635 00:36:57,715 --> 00:36:59,091 EDWARD: You don't know where you're going. 636 00:36:59,175 --> 00:37:00,426 You don't know what's next. 637 00:37:02,303 --> 00:37:04,513 Kids were separated from their families. 638 00:37:04,597 --> 00:37:08,476 Families were separated, just sent into random places. 639 00:37:10,394 --> 00:37:12,313 (HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING) 640 00:37:12,396 --> 00:37:13,940 EDWARD: My cousins were displaced 641 00:37:14,023 --> 00:37:15,900 because their home was destroyed. 642 00:37:18,653 --> 00:37:23,240 Hurricane Katrina caused one of the biggest dispersements 643 00:37:23,324 --> 00:37:25,451 of Black people in history. 644 00:37:32,083 --> 00:37:34,126 You know, that shit happened during slavery, and, like, 645 00:37:34,210 --> 00:37:35,920 it also happened in 2005. 646 00:37:43,511 --> 00:37:46,597 I remember sitting in a room with my mom 647 00:37:46,681 --> 00:37:49,183 and my dad in an open motel and just wondering 648 00:37:49,266 --> 00:37:51,185 when I was gonna go back home and... 649 00:37:51,268 --> 00:37:52,478 and it turned into one week 650 00:37:52,561 --> 00:37:54,313 to two weeks to three weeks to a month. 651 00:37:54,397 --> 00:37:55,815 And next thing you know, 652 00:37:55,898 --> 00:37:58,109 we-- I was living in Mississippi. 653 00:37:58,192 --> 00:38:00,319 DANIEL: I ended up going to Houston. 654 00:38:00,403 --> 00:38:02,571 Um, we was in a hotel. 655 00:38:02,655 --> 00:38:04,490 We can't stay in this expensive-ass hotel anymore, 656 00:38:04,573 --> 00:38:05,741 so what's gonna have to happen? 657 00:38:05,825 --> 00:38:07,827 Where are we gonna go? We can't go back to the city. 658 00:38:07,910 --> 00:38:09,370 A lot of people, for Katrina, 659 00:38:09,453 --> 00:38:11,956 that was their first time ever leaving New Orleans. 660 00:38:12,039 --> 00:38:13,165 Like, people never left. 661 00:38:13,249 --> 00:38:14,583 I was a senior in high school 662 00:38:14,667 --> 00:38:16,168 and once we came to the realization 663 00:38:16,252 --> 00:38:17,878 that we couldn't go back home, 664 00:38:18,504 --> 00:38:19,672 we moved to Dallas. 665 00:38:19,755 --> 00:38:22,425 DAMARIS CALLIET: We were there ultimately for a year 666 00:38:22,508 --> 00:38:25,219 because we ended up just relocating, 667 00:38:25,302 --> 00:38:27,972 not really by choice, but we didn't really have-- 668 00:38:28,055 --> 00:38:29,807 like, we lost everything in Katrina. 669 00:38:29,890 --> 00:38:32,268 That was the first time I ever got called a refugee. 670 00:38:33,644 --> 00:38:35,563 I'm from America. You know what I mean? 671 00:38:35,646 --> 00:38:39,066 I'm from-- this is my land, but I'm being called a refugee. 672 00:38:39,150 --> 00:38:40,484 Kids at the schools would be like, 673 00:38:40,568 --> 00:38:42,194 "Uh, he's a refugee. That's what they're--" 674 00:38:42,278 --> 00:38:44,196 "Yeah? What you loot? Did you loot? 675 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,198 Did you..." (CHUCKLES) "...did you loots?" 676 00:38:46,282 --> 00:38:47,283 The principal was like, 677 00:38:47,366 --> 00:38:48,826 "Do you think you'll fit in here?" 678 00:38:48,909 --> 00:38:50,286 What kind of question is that to ask 679 00:38:50,369 --> 00:38:52,455 a girl that just, like, just came from, 680 00:38:52,538 --> 00:38:55,124 you know, her house being under eight feet of water? 681 00:38:55,207 --> 00:38:56,709 "Do you think you'll fit in here?" 682 00:38:56,792 --> 00:38:58,919 Hell the fuck no, I'm not gonna fit in here. 683 00:38:59,003 --> 00:39:00,212 I don't want to fit in here. 684 00:39:00,296 --> 00:39:02,548 REPORTER: The tension has been slowly escalating here. 685 00:39:02,631 --> 00:39:04,592 Fights have broken out in schools between 686 00:39:04,675 --> 00:39:07,011 New Orleans evacuees and Houston students. 687 00:39:07,094 --> 00:39:08,596 And now, Houston police say 688 00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:10,848 Katrina evacuees have been the victims 689 00:39:10,931 --> 00:39:14,727 or suspects in about 20 percent of the city's homicides, 690 00:39:14,810 --> 00:39:16,103 more than double their percentage 691 00:39:16,187 --> 00:39:17,271 in the population. 692 00:39:18,606 --> 00:39:20,566 EDWARD: It was two weeks after we had evacuated 693 00:39:20,649 --> 00:39:23,194 to Lafayette, and it was not easy 694 00:39:23,277 --> 00:39:24,779 to adjust to this new place. 695 00:39:27,323 --> 00:39:28,866 I think that, like, you know... 696 00:39:30,451 --> 00:39:31,535 Like, I don't know. Like, 697 00:39:31,619 --> 00:39:33,704 we definitely went to school too soon. 698 00:39:34,747 --> 00:39:36,457 EDWARD: I didn't retain anything 699 00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:37,917 that they were teaching us. 700 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,045 We stayed in Lafayette for about eight months, 701 00:39:41,879 --> 00:39:43,172 and it felt like two years. 702 00:39:45,966 --> 00:39:51,305 (SIZZLING) 703 00:39:51,388 --> 00:39:52,598 EDWARD SR: The people in Lafayette 704 00:39:52,681 --> 00:39:54,558 knew we couldn't go back to New Orleans, 705 00:39:54,642 --> 00:39:58,020 so they tried to make it as easy as possible 706 00:39:58,104 --> 00:40:01,273 for us to make that transition with the kids. 707 00:40:03,859 --> 00:40:05,945 As far as you were concerned, 708 00:40:06,028 --> 00:40:08,447 when you started playing football 709 00:40:08,531 --> 00:40:10,199 and getting into activities 710 00:40:10,282 --> 00:40:12,284 in-- in the school that you was in, 711 00:40:12,368 --> 00:40:14,495 you-- you were fine then. Matter of fact, 712 00:40:14,578 --> 00:40:16,122 you didn't even want to leave there. 713 00:40:16,205 --> 00:40:17,915 The people that we were staying with 714 00:40:17,998 --> 00:40:19,542 didn't want you to leave there. 715 00:40:19,625 --> 00:40:21,669 Your coach didn't want you to leave there. 716 00:40:21,752 --> 00:40:24,171 He wanted you to continue playing ball there. 717 00:40:24,255 --> 00:40:26,298 So, that was good therapy for you. 718 00:40:26,382 --> 00:40:27,675 My kids... 719 00:40:27,758 --> 00:40:30,344 they-- they came out of it pretty good, I think. 720 00:40:30,427 --> 00:40:34,515 Um. How do you think overall, Hurricane Katrina impacted, 721 00:40:34,598 --> 00:40:37,476 like, you know, like the family or, like-- like-- like the kids? 722 00:40:38,561 --> 00:40:41,063 Oh, how do I think they were impacted? 723 00:40:41,689 --> 00:40:42,898 Um... 724 00:40:44,733 --> 00:40:46,944 I really don't know how it impacted the kids, 725 00:40:47,027 --> 00:40:49,321 'cause the kids wasn't saying anything. 726 00:40:49,405 --> 00:40:51,532 They wasn't telling us nothing. 727 00:40:51,615 --> 00:40:55,494 So, it was like a normal, everyday life. 728 00:40:55,578 --> 00:40:56,871 So, that's how I looked at it, 729 00:40:56,954 --> 00:40:59,748 as normal, everyday life. I mean... 730 00:40:59,832 --> 00:41:01,500 we actually-- I used to constantly ask you 731 00:41:01,584 --> 00:41:03,794 how you were doing and how Kiyara and them, 732 00:41:03,878 --> 00:41:06,881 how they doing, and y'all just say, "We okay." 733 00:41:06,964 --> 00:41:09,175 And especially you, 'cause you used to go in a room 734 00:41:09,258 --> 00:41:10,384 and lock up in a room, 735 00:41:10,467 --> 00:41:12,761 and I used to say, "You all right, you all right?" 736 00:41:12,845 --> 00:41:15,639 But didn't seem like nothing was wrong with you. 737 00:41:15,723 --> 00:41:17,850 If it was, you didn't say anything. 738 00:41:25,691 --> 00:41:31,655 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 739 00:41:31,739 --> 00:41:35,326 It was a big day in New Orleans. A month after Hurricane Katrina, 740 00:41:35,409 --> 00:41:37,036 officials began letting people back 741 00:41:37,119 --> 00:41:39,038 into three large neighborhoods. 742 00:41:39,121 --> 00:41:40,498 It's been clear for some time 743 00:41:40,581 --> 00:41:42,166 that the city would never be the same 744 00:41:42,249 --> 00:41:46,378 but just how it could change is just now becoming clear. 745 00:41:46,462 --> 00:41:48,756 ♪ (JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 746 00:41:48,839 --> 00:41:50,758 New Orleans and the French Quarter... 747 00:41:51,717 --> 00:41:53,093 will continue on, no matter what. 748 00:41:53,177 --> 00:41:54,595 I mean, it's gonna be a different city, 749 00:41:54,678 --> 00:41:56,764 but there's gonna be a lot of things that ain't gonna change. 750 00:41:56,847 --> 00:41:59,099 And I think the things that don't change will be... 751 00:41:59,183 --> 00:42:01,352 for the better, places like Cafe Du Monde 752 00:42:01,435 --> 00:42:02,937 and Jackson Square. And... 753 00:42:03,020 --> 00:42:05,731 I mean, it's just a whole list of institutions 754 00:42:05,814 --> 00:42:07,524 that have been here forever. 755 00:42:07,608 --> 00:42:09,735 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 756 00:42:09,818 --> 00:42:11,111 EDWARD: The city was not ready 757 00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:13,322 to receive all of us. 758 00:42:13,405 --> 00:42:15,866 But of course, they needed their workers to come back, 759 00:42:15,950 --> 00:42:17,660 you know, to get that tourism industry 760 00:42:17,743 --> 00:42:18,827 pumping again. 761 00:42:32,258 --> 00:42:34,134 SURVIVOR: This is Granny's house. 762 00:42:54,405 --> 00:42:59,994 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 763 00:43:06,083 --> 00:43:07,334 SURVIVOR 1: Being honest with y'all, 764 00:43:07,418 --> 00:43:10,504 I would rather... the whole house. 765 00:43:10,587 --> 00:43:11,755 It got-- it got to everything. 766 00:43:11,839 --> 00:43:13,966 SURVIVOR 2: How long all this gonna be? 767 00:43:14,049 --> 00:43:16,760 Lord have mercy, Jesus Christ. 768 00:43:20,222 --> 00:43:22,266 (SIGHS) Oh, God. 769 00:43:25,644 --> 00:43:28,397 EDWARD: When did you get back to New Orleans? 770 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,024 When did I get back to New Orleans? 771 00:43:30,107 --> 00:43:32,109 As soon as they opened the state back up, 772 00:43:32,192 --> 00:43:33,444 my great-grandmother was like, 773 00:43:33,527 --> 00:43:36,071 "Okay, it's time to go home. I want to go back to my house." 774 00:43:36,155 --> 00:43:37,156 You know what I mean? 775 00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:39,033 And so, we packed up, and we went back home. 776 00:43:39,116 --> 00:43:40,826 -EDWARD: What did you see? -Ghosts. 777 00:43:42,494 --> 00:43:43,829 Nobody around here, 778 00:43:43,912 --> 00:43:46,999 it was just a ghost town. Debris everywhere. 779 00:43:47,082 --> 00:43:49,209 Dead animals. I actually came back 780 00:43:49,293 --> 00:43:51,211 and saw my dog because I couldn't take him. 781 00:43:51,295 --> 00:43:53,505 You know what I mean? It was just a whole lot of-- 782 00:43:53,589 --> 00:43:54,965 a whole lot of hurt. 783 00:43:55,049 --> 00:43:56,550 I seen people that was just hurting, 784 00:43:56,634 --> 00:43:58,886 head down. Didn't know what they was gonna do. 785 00:43:58,969 --> 00:44:01,388 Didn't know if a better day was gonna come. 786 00:44:01,472 --> 00:44:02,681 It was just gloom everywhere. 787 00:44:02,765 --> 00:44:04,141 And, uh, as far as I can remember, 788 00:44:04,224 --> 00:44:07,436 that's-- that's what it was every day for a long time. 789 00:44:13,942 --> 00:44:15,361 DAMARIS: I was ready to get back to school, 790 00:44:15,444 --> 00:44:19,031 so we ended up coming back down to New Orleans. 791 00:44:19,114 --> 00:44:21,200 And I stayed in a FEMA trailer 792 00:44:21,283 --> 00:44:25,412 that I later found out was filled with formaldehyde. 793 00:44:26,205 --> 00:44:31,126 EDWARD: Okay, so... 794 00:44:31,210 --> 00:44:33,420 Yeah, basically, because they were-- 795 00:44:33,921 --> 00:44:35,130 they were cheap. 796 00:44:35,214 --> 00:44:37,424 So, they bought all these trailers 797 00:44:37,508 --> 00:44:39,760 that were actually not in use 798 00:44:39,843 --> 00:44:43,389 because they were filled with formaldehyde. 799 00:44:43,472 --> 00:44:44,932 REPORTER: It's another blow for victims 800 00:44:45,015 --> 00:44:46,100 of Hurricane Katrina. 801 00:44:46,183 --> 00:44:49,144 Tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde fumes. 802 00:44:49,228 --> 00:44:52,231 More than 500 trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi, 803 00:44:52,314 --> 00:44:55,984 some had 40 times the fumes found in most modern homes. 804 00:44:56,527 --> 00:44:58,112 Two years later, 805 00:44:58,195 --> 00:45:01,657 when I would actually lay on my back, I would notice 806 00:45:01,740 --> 00:45:03,951 a ball sticking out of my stomach 807 00:45:04,034 --> 00:45:05,828 that just came from nowhere. 808 00:45:05,911 --> 00:45:08,872 So, I kind of ignored it for a while 809 00:45:08,956 --> 00:45:11,417 until I started having, like, all kind of issues, 810 00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:15,421 health issues. So, then I went to the doctor to find out 811 00:45:15,504 --> 00:45:17,840 that it was a tumor that had grown 812 00:45:17,923 --> 00:45:20,300 because of staying in the trailer. 813 00:45:25,139 --> 00:45:27,307 CHASE N. DASHE: You could smell death. 814 00:45:27,391 --> 00:45:29,601 You had bodies laying on the side of the road still, 815 00:45:29,685 --> 00:45:33,355 lifting-up trees, and dead dogs, and dead birds underneath, 816 00:45:33,439 --> 00:45:35,941 maggots everywhere, all type in the garbage everywhere. 817 00:45:36,024 --> 00:45:37,568 So, you know, it was just a smell 818 00:45:37,651 --> 00:45:39,778 that I'll never forget. 819 00:45:39,862 --> 00:45:41,947 CIERRA CHENIER: My people went to go check on the house, 820 00:45:42,030 --> 00:45:44,950 and I still just remember being, like, giddy, like, 821 00:45:45,033 --> 00:45:47,953 "Cool. My-- my toy that I left on my dresser," like 822 00:45:48,036 --> 00:45:49,705 "They bringing all of that," type of thing. 823 00:45:49,788 --> 00:45:53,333 And I just remember, like, when they got out the car, 824 00:45:53,417 --> 00:45:57,421 and it was just a trash bag that wasn't even filled, 825 00:45:57,504 --> 00:45:59,923 and it was like, "This is it from the whole house." 826 00:46:00,007 --> 00:46:01,550 I'm thinking that's just my room. 827 00:46:01,633 --> 00:46:04,803 So that, I think, was the first time 828 00:46:04,887 --> 00:46:06,638 it actually hit of, like... 829 00:46:07,806 --> 00:46:11,768 what we knew to be true is gone. (SNIFFLES) 830 00:46:14,938 --> 00:46:16,899 This is what it means when they say nobody asked you. 831 00:46:16,982 --> 00:46:18,233 (LAUGHS) 'Cause it's the first time 832 00:46:18,317 --> 00:46:19,818 I said that out loud. 833 00:46:21,278 --> 00:46:24,323 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 834 00:46:24,406 --> 00:46:26,283 CIERRA: Everything you consider 835 00:46:26,366 --> 00:46:28,202 as part of who you are 836 00:46:28,285 --> 00:46:30,746 was reduced to a trash bag, you know? 837 00:46:32,581 --> 00:46:33,916 But the magnitude of that 838 00:46:33,999 --> 00:46:37,002 just became so much worse when you start to realize, 839 00:46:37,085 --> 00:46:39,379 "Oh, not just the house, the whole neighborhood." 840 00:46:39,463 --> 00:46:41,965 Like, "Ms. So-and-So doesn't live here anymore." 841 00:46:42,049 --> 00:46:45,844 Or when you start to really see the loss of life, 842 00:46:45,928 --> 00:46:48,055 that's-- that's on a completely different level. 843 00:46:48,138 --> 00:46:51,058 And when so much of your identity 844 00:46:51,141 --> 00:46:52,684 is where you're from, 845 00:46:52,768 --> 00:46:54,520 specifically what neighborhood you're from, 846 00:46:54,603 --> 00:46:56,230 and that neighborhood isn't the same anymore, 847 00:46:56,313 --> 00:46:58,065 that house isn't there anymore, 848 00:46:58,148 --> 00:47:00,526 what does that do to your identity? 849 00:47:00,609 --> 00:47:02,319 Like, sometimes, after the storm, 850 00:47:02,402 --> 00:47:04,112 I'd just go back to my old neighborhood 851 00:47:04,196 --> 00:47:05,322 and just sit on a porch. 852 00:47:07,282 --> 00:47:08,867 Like, the house was all boarded up and stuff, 853 00:47:08,951 --> 00:47:11,286 but I still just wanted to be there, you know? 854 00:47:11,370 --> 00:47:14,706 Like, I'd just sit there for hours, you know? 855 00:47:14,790 --> 00:47:21,255 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 856 00:47:36,228 --> 00:47:37,896 EDWARD: My parents had finally decided 857 00:47:37,980 --> 00:47:39,648 that it was time to go back home... 858 00:47:41,316 --> 00:47:42,818 so we got on the road. 859 00:47:47,114 --> 00:47:48,740 (INSECTS CHIRPING) 860 00:47:48,824 --> 00:47:52,244 BETTY: This is the shed, everything that was in it, 861 00:47:52,327 --> 00:47:54,496 the bicycles and... 862 00:47:54,580 --> 00:47:57,165 EDWARD: Although my house was still standing, 863 00:47:57,249 --> 00:47:59,960 the New Orleans that we knew was gone. 864 00:48:00,043 --> 00:48:02,421 Boy, what a thing to lose. 865 00:48:02,504 --> 00:48:04,339 ♪ ("3RD WARD SOLJA" BY JUVENILE PLAYING) ♪ 866 00:48:04,423 --> 00:48:08,010 ♪ ...And Holly Grove can't fuck With the Melph and the Calio ♪ 867 00:48:08,093 --> 00:48:10,220 ♪ I told ya, I told ya ♪ 868 00:48:10,304 --> 00:48:12,598 ♪ Them boys don't want beef With the Nolia ♪ 869 00:48:12,681 --> 00:48:15,309 ♪ And I warned ya And I warned ya ♪ 870 00:48:15,392 --> 00:48:17,144 ♪ Can't fuck With that 10th Ward ♪ 871 00:48:17,227 --> 00:48:20,230 ♪ St. Thomas And on the V.L, and on the V.L ♪ 872 00:48:20,314 --> 00:48:23,191 ♪ Can't fuck with them boys On V.L ♪ 873 00:48:23,275 --> 00:48:24,568 MIESHA: Before Katrina, 874 00:48:24,651 --> 00:48:27,237 I remember everybody in the neighborhood, 875 00:48:27,321 --> 00:48:28,989 all of us together. 876 00:48:29,072 --> 00:48:30,949 CIERRA: Your neighborhood was crucial 877 00:48:31,033 --> 00:48:31,992 to who you were. 878 00:48:32,075 --> 00:48:34,828 At the least, you had your-- your family. 879 00:48:34,911 --> 00:48:36,747 You had your community. You had your-- your people, 880 00:48:36,830 --> 00:48:38,790 -so to speak. -Everybody on the block 881 00:48:38,874 --> 00:48:40,125 watched out for my kids. 882 00:48:40,208 --> 00:48:42,377 We watched out for each other's kids. 883 00:48:42,461 --> 00:48:45,005 Before Katrina, like, you had no reason to leave your hood 884 00:48:45,088 --> 00:48:46,798 because your hood had everything in it. 885 00:48:46,882 --> 00:48:49,801 Kids was outside, playing in the street. 886 00:48:49,885 --> 00:48:51,094 You know, it was amazing. 887 00:48:51,178 --> 00:48:52,679 Like, thinking about it, it really was-- 888 00:48:52,763 --> 00:48:55,682 it was African in the essence. It was just Black people. 889 00:48:55,766 --> 00:48:56,767 That's all you saw, 890 00:48:56,850 --> 00:48:58,352 and that's all you really thought about. 891 00:48:58,435 --> 00:49:00,437 EDWARD: It was really the Big Easy. Like, 892 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:04,024 generation after generation, we lived the same way. 893 00:49:04,107 --> 00:49:05,776 Nothing ever changed. 894 00:49:05,859 --> 00:49:07,819 (RAPPING INDISTINCTLY) 895 00:49:07,903 --> 00:49:09,071 EDWARD: But after Katrina... 896 00:49:11,698 --> 00:49:14,701 CIERRA: The displacing of Black communities 897 00:49:14,785 --> 00:49:16,370 all over the city 898 00:49:16,453 --> 00:49:17,788 started to cause, like, 899 00:49:17,871 --> 00:49:20,248 this trickle-down effect of, you know, 900 00:49:20,332 --> 00:49:22,542 you are no longer in the community 901 00:49:22,626 --> 00:49:24,044 you came up in. 902 00:49:24,127 --> 00:49:29,216 You are now being put in, like, concentrated areas or, like, 903 00:49:29,299 --> 00:49:30,759 pockets to where... 904 00:49:31,802 --> 00:49:33,553 people that are territorial 905 00:49:33,637 --> 00:49:37,224 and are super, you know, hard up about where they're from 906 00:49:37,307 --> 00:49:40,519 now being placed in certain parts of the city 907 00:49:40,602 --> 00:49:43,230 because they were displaced or they lost their homes. 908 00:49:43,313 --> 00:49:46,066 And, you know, now, the rent for the whole street 909 00:49:46,149 --> 00:49:48,860 has gone up and new people have moved in. 910 00:49:48,944 --> 00:49:53,699 Think about what that does to, um, a community. 911 00:49:53,782 --> 00:49:54,950 It destabilizes it. 912 00:49:55,033 --> 00:50:00,914 ♪ (HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 913 00:50:00,997 --> 00:50:04,209 RADIO ANNOUNCER: Q93, WQUE-FM New Orleans. 914 00:50:04,292 --> 00:50:06,420 Less talk, more jams. 915 00:50:06,503 --> 00:50:07,754 Q93. 916 00:50:07,838 --> 00:50:10,674 MIESHA: I just remember going, um, like, back. 917 00:50:14,302 --> 00:50:16,805 And they had the weird houses. 918 00:50:17,931 --> 00:50:19,599 I thought it was so weird. 919 00:50:19,683 --> 00:50:21,977 And they had, like, solar panels on them, 920 00:50:22,060 --> 00:50:23,937 and I did not know what that was... 921 00:50:24,020 --> 00:50:25,397 (LAUGHS) ...at that time. 922 00:50:27,023 --> 00:50:29,192 I just feel like they're trying to make it into, like, 923 00:50:29,276 --> 00:50:31,862 a new community, like, full of White people. 924 00:50:32,738 --> 00:50:34,406 (LAUGHS) 925 00:50:34,489 --> 00:50:36,575 We see all these White people coming out of houses 926 00:50:36,658 --> 00:50:37,993 across the street from the projects, 927 00:50:38,076 --> 00:50:40,829 and we're just looking like, "What is going on," you know? 928 00:50:40,912 --> 00:50:42,581 The White people and stuff taking over 929 00:50:42,664 --> 00:50:44,082 'cause the rent getting high and stuff, 930 00:50:44,166 --> 00:50:46,877 so the neighborhoods is totally different now. 931 00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:48,295 MIDCITY AB: I think gentrification 932 00:50:48,378 --> 00:50:51,590 was happening before the storm, but Katrina sped it up. 933 00:50:51,673 --> 00:50:54,926 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 934 00:50:58,346 --> 00:51:01,683 The feel of community in New Orleans is different now, 935 00:51:01,767 --> 00:51:04,102 'cause people are moving around so much, you know? 936 00:51:04,186 --> 00:51:07,189 Like I was saying, you can live in the 8th Ward one year, 937 00:51:07,272 --> 00:51:09,608 then move uptown to the 13th the next year. 938 00:51:09,691 --> 00:51:11,443 And, so, you don't really get to know nobody. 939 00:51:11,526 --> 00:51:12,611 You might speak to your neighbor, 940 00:51:12,694 --> 00:51:14,279 but it's not like it used to be. 941 00:51:14,362 --> 00:51:15,447 You're not rooted. 942 00:51:15,530 --> 00:51:17,282 The children aren't as rooted as they used to be 943 00:51:17,365 --> 00:51:18,575 before the storm, you know? 944 00:51:25,081 --> 00:51:26,541 (EDWARD SIGHS) 945 00:51:28,418 --> 00:51:30,378 When I got back after Katrina, 946 00:51:30,462 --> 00:51:32,005 I naively thought that everything 947 00:51:32,088 --> 00:51:33,548 was gonna be normal again. 948 00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:42,015 But in actuality... 949 00:51:42,098 --> 00:51:44,267 with my cousins not being able to come back... 950 00:51:46,436 --> 00:51:48,271 I felt alone and bored. 951 00:51:50,649 --> 00:51:53,902 (PROJECTOR CLICKS) 952 00:51:53,985 --> 00:51:56,363 EDWARD: I would just roam around New Orleans, going to places 953 00:51:56,446 --> 00:51:59,616 that my parents had sheltered me from as a child. 954 00:52:02,244 --> 00:52:04,830 My mama disliked a lot of the neighborhood kids 955 00:52:04,913 --> 00:52:06,581 that I started to hang out with. 956 00:52:09,417 --> 00:52:12,128 But then I met this one kid, Jacquez. 957 00:52:14,464 --> 00:52:16,550 We called him Jac for short. 958 00:52:16,633 --> 00:52:18,718 (CHUCKLES) I remember one day, 959 00:52:18,802 --> 00:52:19,803 me and this other kid 960 00:52:19,886 --> 00:52:21,888 were gonna fight at the bus stop. 961 00:52:21,972 --> 00:52:25,350 I guarantee you that it was for no good reason. 962 00:52:25,433 --> 00:52:27,769 And right when we were about to go at it, 963 00:52:29,396 --> 00:52:32,941 Jacquez, simply 'cause I was from his hood 964 00:52:33,024 --> 00:52:34,317 and he knew my parents... 965 00:52:36,236 --> 00:52:37,863 stepped right in front of me, 966 00:52:37,946 --> 00:52:40,198 and he defused the whole situation. 967 00:52:40,949 --> 00:52:42,784 (BIRDS CHIRPING) 968 00:52:48,623 --> 00:52:51,459 EDWARD: Afterwards, he became like a big bro. 969 00:52:54,045 --> 00:52:56,006 He was one of the only kids I ever heard 970 00:52:56,089 --> 00:52:58,383 talk about the future or going to college. 971 00:53:12,314 --> 00:53:15,483 My mama always had this Hi8 camera in the house, 972 00:53:15,567 --> 00:53:17,235 so I picked that up one day 973 00:53:17,319 --> 00:53:19,112 and started filming things in my neighborhood. 974 00:53:21,489 --> 00:53:24,200 -YOUNG EDWARD: Ma, I love you. -I love you, too. 975 00:53:24,284 --> 00:53:27,412 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 976 00:53:27,495 --> 00:53:28,955 YOUNG EDWARD: That shit's crazy, man. 977 00:53:30,624 --> 00:53:33,460 That be nice. That be just icy. 978 00:53:33,543 --> 00:53:35,503 Yes, sir, what's happening with it? 979 00:53:40,717 --> 00:53:43,428 -What is it? -BETTY: Crawfish, crabs, and shrimp. 980 00:53:43,511 --> 00:53:45,221 EDWARD: Jac always made me feel like 981 00:53:45,305 --> 00:53:47,724 I could do anything I put my heart into. 982 00:53:50,226 --> 00:53:51,561 When I graduated college... 983 00:53:52,938 --> 00:53:54,481 Jacquez was so proud. 984 00:53:54,564 --> 00:53:55,857 ANNOUNCER: Which is... 985 00:53:55,941 --> 00:53:58,818 (CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS) 986 00:53:58,902 --> 00:54:01,363 SPEAKER: Look, everyone's just graduated. 987 00:54:01,446 --> 00:54:04,783 Wayne, Tom, Clack, all the family. Shaq. 988 00:54:04,866 --> 00:54:08,620 He and Tom brought a leotard one time. And Jac! 989 00:54:11,873 --> 00:54:13,333 (PROJECTOR ROLLS) 990 00:54:13,416 --> 00:54:14,876 EDWARD: The violence in New Orleans... 991 00:54:15,961 --> 00:54:17,921 still touched everything. 992 00:54:18,004 --> 00:54:20,799 You had people from different neighborhoods 993 00:54:20,882 --> 00:54:22,342 just all combined together, 994 00:54:22,425 --> 00:54:24,803 which means that you got new people back there 995 00:54:24,886 --> 00:54:26,680 trying to make a name for theyself, 996 00:54:26,763 --> 00:54:29,516 trying to claim territory, but then you got the people 997 00:54:29,599 --> 00:54:31,518 that already had that territory, like, 998 00:54:31,601 --> 00:54:33,395 "Nah, bro. This is my shit." 999 00:54:33,478 --> 00:54:35,522 So, it was just, like, a lot of gunplay. 1000 00:54:35,605 --> 00:54:36,856 It was, like, a lot of gun violence, 1001 00:54:36,940 --> 00:54:37,983 a lot of fights. 1002 00:54:38,066 --> 00:54:39,567 Little kids, they want to be killers 1003 00:54:39,651 --> 00:54:40,944 when they grow up. Like, they see 1004 00:54:41,027 --> 00:54:42,612 their little partners with a gun, "Oh, yeah." 1005 00:54:42,696 --> 00:54:44,239 Like, little kids now, 1006 00:54:44,322 --> 00:54:45,782 they really just want to be real. 1007 00:54:45,865 --> 00:54:48,868 Like, that's what it really is. Like, they want to be gangster. 1008 00:54:48,952 --> 00:54:49,869 They ain't really like, 1009 00:54:49,953 --> 00:54:51,454 "Oh, I want to be this when I grow up." 1010 00:54:51,538 --> 00:54:53,832 It's really like, "Oh, yeah. I'm about that life, yeah. 1011 00:54:53,915 --> 00:54:56,334 Let me put on my Dickie fit. Yeah, I'm hood now." 1012 00:54:56,418 --> 00:54:59,045 But now, after the storm, it's like, uh, 1013 00:54:59,129 --> 00:55:02,048 you don't even have to be living that life in that world. 1014 00:55:02,132 --> 00:55:04,759 You don't have to be living in the "hood," per se. 1015 00:55:04,843 --> 00:55:06,928 But you could be affected by violence in New Orleans, 1016 00:55:07,012 --> 00:55:09,431 'cause it's so scattered. It's so random, you know? 1017 00:55:09,514 --> 00:55:12,475 It could pop off at any time of the day, anywhere. 1018 00:55:16,813 --> 00:55:23,737 (PRINTER WHIRRING) 1019 00:55:39,335 --> 00:55:40,837 EDWARD: Mm-mm-mm. 1020 00:55:53,767 --> 00:55:56,144 REPORTER: Deputies were called to the corner of Whitney Avenue 1021 00:55:56,227 --> 00:55:58,897 and Landry Street around noon yesterday. 1022 00:55:58,980 --> 00:56:02,275 There they found 23-year-old Jacquez Young 1023 00:56:02,358 --> 00:56:04,027 dead inside of a car. 1024 00:56:04,110 --> 00:56:06,696 Another 20-year-old man was taken to the hospital. 1025 00:56:06,780 --> 00:56:09,657 Both of them had been shot several times. 1026 00:56:09,741 --> 00:56:12,494 Witnesses told investigators they saw several people 1027 00:56:12,577 --> 00:56:15,622 inside of a white, four-door F-150 pull up 1028 00:56:15,705 --> 00:56:17,916 to the car and open fire. 1029 00:56:19,667 --> 00:56:24,756 -♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ -(EDWARD SIGHS) 1030 00:56:25,632 --> 00:56:27,258 And that fucked me up, like, bad. 1031 00:56:28,384 --> 00:56:29,511 Really, really bad. 1032 00:56:32,388 --> 00:56:33,431 Like... 1033 00:56:39,854 --> 00:56:42,148 Yeah, like, I don't know. Um, I think that... 1034 00:56:44,901 --> 00:56:47,737 you know, like, where I'm from, we know. 1035 00:56:47,821 --> 00:56:51,199 Like, we know that somebody isn't gonna grow old with us. 1036 00:56:51,282 --> 00:56:54,327 We know that somebody is gonna either be a victim of, 1037 00:56:54,869 --> 00:56:55,912 you know, 1038 00:56:55,995 --> 00:56:59,958 the mass-incarceration system or violence, 1039 00:57:00,041 --> 00:57:04,129 you know, um, or drugs. We know it. 1040 00:57:04,212 --> 00:57:07,298 But I didn't think that it would be Jacquez... 1041 00:57:08,758 --> 00:57:09,759 you know? 1042 00:57:11,010 --> 00:57:12,428 Uh... 1043 00:57:12,512 --> 00:57:14,347 It was just like, "Man, if that can happen 1044 00:57:14,430 --> 00:57:16,516 to, like, Jacquez, that shit can happen to me," 1045 00:57:17,267 --> 00:57:19,352 you know? And, like, 1046 00:57:19,435 --> 00:57:22,355 I was sad, but I was more pissed than anything 1047 00:57:22,438 --> 00:57:24,899 that we had, like, allowed that to happen to him. 1048 00:57:24,983 --> 00:57:27,610 And, like, when I say we, I mean, like, my neighborhood. 1049 00:57:27,694 --> 00:57:31,948 I mean, like, you know, society, like, America. It's just like... 1050 00:57:32,031 --> 00:57:33,491 It just, like, really pissed me off 1051 00:57:33,575 --> 00:57:35,827 and, like, made me angry, you know? 1052 00:57:35,910 --> 00:57:38,371 Like, these are the conditions that we live in. 1053 00:57:38,454 --> 00:57:41,457 And, like, we live in the conditions where 1054 00:57:41,541 --> 00:57:44,210 somebody as good as Jac, 1055 00:57:45,253 --> 00:57:47,881 you know, can be shot dead in the street. 1056 00:58:05,064 --> 00:58:06,274 Buckles! 1057 00:58:07,775 --> 00:58:09,402 -What's up, Buckles? -Hey, Snapchat! 1058 00:58:09,485 --> 00:58:11,487 -YOUNG EDWARD: It's not Snapchat here. -Buckles! 1059 00:58:12,697 --> 00:58:15,116 You look tired behind the camera, dawg. 1060 00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,368 Put the camera on y'all. Let me see it? 1061 00:58:17,452 --> 00:58:18,536 I'm gonna put the camera on y'all 1062 00:58:18,620 --> 00:58:20,038 because y'all look tired, son. 1063 00:58:20,121 --> 00:58:22,248 EDWARD: Three months after Jacquez passed... 1064 00:58:24,375 --> 00:58:27,128 I was offered a job as a high school media teacher. 1065 00:58:27,212 --> 00:58:28,838 What's up, students? 1066 00:58:28,922 --> 00:58:30,465 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1067 00:58:30,548 --> 00:58:33,718 EDWARD: Being around those kids was therapeutic. 1068 00:58:33,801 --> 00:58:35,011 They were so energetic, 1069 00:58:35,094 --> 00:58:37,138 and I just saw so much hope in them. 1070 00:58:37,222 --> 00:58:38,556 Intro videos, take one. 1071 00:58:40,016 --> 00:58:42,310 STUDENT 1: Wait, wait, wait. You l'il player. 1072 00:58:42,393 --> 00:58:43,436 EDWARD: Uh, not yet. 1073 00:58:45,521 --> 00:58:47,732 As soon as they started filming each other, 1074 00:58:47,815 --> 00:58:49,150 they went deep real fast. 1075 00:58:49,234 --> 00:58:51,736 -Let's do a session. -STUDENT 2: Quiet on the set. 1076 00:58:51,819 --> 00:58:52,987 INTERVIEWER: What's the worst thing 1077 00:58:53,071 --> 00:58:54,405 you experienced in life? 1078 00:58:57,575 --> 00:58:59,327 I guess... 1079 00:58:59,410 --> 00:59:02,497 I don't know. I guess, it was, like, Katrina. 1080 00:59:02,580 --> 00:59:04,666 I guess that would be the worst, I guess. 1081 00:59:04,749 --> 00:59:06,793 I was scared a little 'cause, like, 1082 00:59:06,876 --> 00:59:09,254 'cause I ain't know that we was gonna make it or not. 1083 00:59:09,337 --> 00:59:13,383 I get nervous and scared and paranoid. 1084 00:59:14,342 --> 00:59:15,760 (EXHALES) 1085 00:59:17,220 --> 00:59:18,721 All right. Now it is rolling. 1086 00:59:19,931 --> 00:59:24,269 -Who's that, now? Tell me when. -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1087 00:59:24,352 --> 00:59:26,271 EDWARD: It was so clear that these students 1088 00:59:26,354 --> 00:59:30,108 were dealing with a lot, especially outside of school. 1089 00:59:30,191 --> 00:59:32,151 EDWARD: World Issue, Calvin, take one. 1090 00:59:33,736 --> 00:59:34,779 EDWARD: Action. 1091 00:59:34,862 --> 00:59:36,656 Hi. My name's Calvin Baxter, 1092 00:59:36,739 --> 00:59:38,700 and I attend Edna Karr High School. 1093 00:59:39,951 --> 00:59:42,787 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1094 00:59:45,248 --> 00:59:46,457 EDWARD: Take me back to that night. 1095 00:59:46,541 --> 00:59:48,876 Like, like, like, you know, what was going on? 1096 00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:50,503 What was happening? 1097 00:59:50,586 --> 00:59:54,299 I went to the store. I had bought me some gauze. 1098 00:59:54,382 --> 00:59:58,303 And fuck, I'm walking out. I'm on the avenue, and, fuck, 1099 00:59:58,386 --> 01:00:02,682 a cop... just started shooting at me. 1100 01:00:02,765 --> 01:00:04,517 You see my heart right here, 1101 01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:06,561 you know, in that area right there. 1102 01:00:06,644 --> 01:00:09,230 That's about three inches away, you know? 1103 01:00:09,314 --> 01:00:11,024 I could have got hit in the heart. 1104 01:00:12,734 --> 01:00:16,821 And, fuck, I had-- I had made it to the hospital on my own. 1105 01:00:17,655 --> 01:00:18,990 EDWARD: How many times they shot? 1106 01:00:19,073 --> 01:00:21,284 They shot at me about 17 times. 1107 01:00:21,367 --> 01:00:23,953 EDWARD: And they hit you how many times? 1108 01:00:24,037 --> 01:00:25,997 -One time. -EDWARD: You blessed. 1109 01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:28,041 Oh, yeah. It made me carry a gun 1110 01:00:28,124 --> 01:00:31,711 because I feel like I've got to protect myself. 1111 01:00:31,794 --> 01:00:34,547 Like, I'm-- shit, I don't know when something gonna happen, 1112 01:00:34,630 --> 01:00:36,215 so I got to keep it on me. 1113 01:00:36,299 --> 01:00:38,509 -EDWARD: Even at 15? -Even at 15. 1114 01:00:39,302 --> 01:00:41,137 Mm-mm, it don't matter. 1115 01:00:42,096 --> 01:00:44,432 All the shit you've been through, 1116 01:00:44,515 --> 01:00:47,352 like, you numb to the pain. Really, like, it's numb to you. 1117 01:00:47,435 --> 01:00:48,853 Like, you're so used to it happening, 1118 01:00:48,936 --> 01:00:51,481 you're like, "Fuck it." Like, so, 1119 01:00:51,564 --> 01:00:52,648 you're numb to the feeling. 1120 01:00:52,732 --> 01:00:54,400 You're coldhearted. You don't give a fuck. 1121 01:00:54,484 --> 01:00:56,152 EDWARD: What does that do to a kid? 1122 01:00:56,235 --> 01:00:57,862 That make them traumatized. Like... 1123 01:00:58,613 --> 01:01:01,491 like... like coldhearted. 1124 01:01:01,574 --> 01:01:05,536 I feel like everything changed after Katrina. 1125 01:01:05,620 --> 01:01:08,164 Like, you know, they had to rebuild everything. 1126 01:01:08,247 --> 01:01:09,707 And a lot of buildings, 1127 01:01:09,791 --> 01:01:12,085 like, you know, they had a lot of youth centers 1128 01:01:12,168 --> 01:01:13,795 before Katrina and all that. 1129 01:01:13,878 --> 01:01:16,047 They don't got a lot of them now. 1130 01:01:16,130 --> 01:01:18,091 EDWARD: Okay, and what does that mean? 1131 01:01:18,174 --> 01:01:19,258 CALVIN BAXTER: A lot of children, 1132 01:01:19,342 --> 01:01:21,094 they don't really got no guidance out here. 1133 01:01:21,177 --> 01:01:23,930 They don't got no place where they can go after school 1134 01:01:24,013 --> 01:01:25,723 to keep their mind occupied. 1135 01:01:25,807 --> 01:01:29,811 The high school dropout rate, the jail rate increasing. 1136 01:01:29,894 --> 01:01:31,896 They'd just build a whole new jail. 1137 01:01:32,563 --> 01:01:33,731 Kids gangbanging. 1138 01:01:33,815 --> 01:01:36,859 Man, I seen a nine-year-old smoking weed. Like... 1139 01:01:38,277 --> 01:01:39,654 they need more jobs, 1140 01:01:39,737 --> 01:01:42,323 more youth programs, more mentors, 1141 01:01:42,407 --> 01:01:45,368 more counseling, more guidance period. 1142 01:01:45,993 --> 01:01:47,787 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1143 01:01:47,870 --> 01:01:49,038 STUDENT: Cut. 1144 01:01:55,211 --> 01:01:56,838 EDWARD: Okay. Um... 1145 01:01:59,507 --> 01:02:00,800 You know, um, what is-- 1146 01:02:00,883 --> 01:02:02,343 OFFICER OVER RADIO: Calling Officer Blaine, 1147 01:02:02,427 --> 01:02:03,553 come in, Tyson. 1148 01:02:08,724 --> 01:02:09,725 Go ahead. 1149 01:02:09,809 --> 01:02:12,103 OFFICER OVER RADIO: Come outside the back. 1150 01:02:12,186 --> 01:02:14,188 -There's something going on. -EDWARD: Let's cut, let's cut. 1151 01:02:18,234 --> 01:02:19,986 Come on, Rodney. Let's go, let's go. 1152 01:02:23,865 --> 01:02:25,324 TEACHER: I just went and stopped them two 1153 01:02:25,408 --> 01:02:26,534 just fighting out here. 1154 01:02:26,617 --> 01:02:29,245 STUDENT: Move! Move! Leave me the fuck alone! Move! 1155 01:02:29,328 --> 01:02:30,872 -Come over here. -No! Leave me alone! 1156 01:02:30,955 --> 01:02:32,457 EDWARD: I didn't recognize my trauma 1157 01:02:32,540 --> 01:02:34,542 and my peers' trauma when I was in school. 1158 01:02:34,625 --> 01:02:37,837 When I saw it as a teacher, it was obvious that these kids 1159 01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:40,214 are experiencing some of the same things that me 1160 01:02:40,298 --> 01:02:43,009 and my peers experienced when we were in school. 1161 01:02:46,429 --> 01:02:50,057 These kids' realities was only getting worse, 1162 01:02:50,141 --> 01:02:53,186 and it blew my mind that nothing was in place to help them. 1163 01:02:58,483 --> 01:03:01,819 Carol Carter, Katrina Babies, take one. 1164 01:03:01,903 --> 01:03:04,489 We always have the perspective, 1165 01:03:04,572 --> 01:03:06,824 which is very annoying to me... (CHUCKLES) 1166 01:03:06,908 --> 01:03:10,828 ...is that somehow, we need to fix the children. 1167 01:03:12,246 --> 01:03:14,290 We don't need to fix the children. 1168 01:03:14,373 --> 01:03:17,710 There is nothing wrong with the children. 1169 01:03:17,793 --> 01:03:18,878 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1170 01:03:18,961 --> 01:03:20,213 CAROLYN WAITERS CARTER: How do you make someone 1171 01:03:20,296 --> 01:03:23,966 feel safe? To feel safe is fundamental. 1172 01:03:24,050 --> 01:03:27,553 They're in home environments where they don't feel safe. 1173 01:03:27,637 --> 01:03:30,223 They go to school, and they don't feel safe. 1174 01:03:32,099 --> 01:03:33,893 What does that do to our children? 1175 01:03:33,976 --> 01:03:36,354 It wreaks havoc on their mental health, 1176 01:03:36,437 --> 01:03:39,357 their physical health, their well-being. 1177 01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:40,858 And, so, they're, you know, 1178 01:03:40,942 --> 01:03:44,237 how do you... how do you learn when you're in trauma state, 1179 01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:46,197 when you're in fight-and-flight state? 1180 01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:47,406 Your body is producing 1181 01:03:47,490 --> 01:03:49,033 all of these chemicals constantly. 1182 01:03:49,116 --> 01:03:50,409 That's your stasis mode. 1183 01:03:50,493 --> 01:03:56,582 Your homeostasis is that trauma, is that fight-or-flight mode. 1184 01:03:56,666 --> 01:04:00,586 Your... your limbic system is there, 1185 01:04:00,670 --> 01:04:04,131 which is what causes diabetes, which causes heart disease, 1186 01:04:04,215 --> 01:04:06,425 which causes high blood pressure and kidney failure, 1187 01:04:06,509 --> 01:04:08,511 and all kinds of other issues 1188 01:04:08,594 --> 01:04:10,805 that our children are dealing with. 1189 01:04:10,888 --> 01:04:15,393 And, so, when we talk about their-- their behavior, 1190 01:04:15,476 --> 01:04:19,522 their behavior is attributed to that state. 1191 01:04:21,983 --> 01:04:24,360 Anybody in that state 1192 01:04:24,443 --> 01:04:28,114 for as long as our children have been in that state 1193 01:04:28,197 --> 01:04:31,242 would be angry, would have behavioral problems, 1194 01:04:31,325 --> 01:04:34,370 would be responding exactly the same way 1195 01:04:34,453 --> 01:04:37,582 that they are responding. They're not different. 1196 01:04:37,665 --> 01:04:39,917 There's not something wrong with them. 1197 01:04:40,001 --> 01:04:42,461 They're doing what their bodies 1198 01:04:42,545 --> 01:04:44,297 are telling them to do 1199 01:04:44,380 --> 01:04:46,841 because that's what trauma does to people. 1200 01:04:54,348 --> 01:04:55,516 EDWARD: I feel like that. 1201 01:04:56,892 --> 01:04:58,269 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDING) ♪ 1202 01:04:58,978 --> 01:05:00,479 EDWARD: That's... like, 1203 01:05:00,563 --> 01:05:02,273 I can't never really put it... put it into words, 1204 01:05:02,356 --> 01:05:05,067 but like, that's... that's exactly how I feel. 1205 01:05:13,868 --> 01:05:14,952 This is my fourth period. 1206 01:05:15,036 --> 01:05:16,287 They're doing it, you know, right now. 1207 01:05:16,370 --> 01:05:18,748 This is Kwani. Say hey, Kwani. 1208 01:05:18,831 --> 01:05:20,291 -Hey. -STUDENT: Hey. 1209 01:05:21,459 --> 01:05:23,753 EDWARD: This is my class. This is Kayla. 1210 01:05:23,836 --> 01:05:27,340 Everybody's doing their work. Kayla, what are you doing? 1211 01:05:27,423 --> 01:05:30,176 EDWARD: In order just to get through my days, 1212 01:05:30,259 --> 01:05:31,636 I've, um... 1213 01:05:31,719 --> 01:05:33,304 I've been pushing that--- 1214 01:05:33,387 --> 01:05:35,723 that stuff down, though, you know? 1215 01:05:35,806 --> 01:05:37,266 (SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) 1216 01:05:40,394 --> 01:05:42,146 EDWARD: And it's taken, you know, 1217 01:05:42,229 --> 01:05:44,106 seeing my students deal with this 1218 01:05:44,190 --> 01:05:45,608 for me to even realize it. 1219 01:05:48,736 --> 01:05:51,072 When I look at them, and... 1220 01:05:52,448 --> 01:05:53,908 what they're up against... 1221 01:05:55,618 --> 01:05:57,912 -it just breaks my heart. -(LAUGHS) 1222 01:06:02,041 --> 01:06:05,753 My name is Shantrell Parker, and I'm 16, 1223 01:06:05,836 --> 01:06:08,464 and I'm from the Fischer Projects. 1224 01:06:13,844 --> 01:06:16,222 REPORTER 1: Barely out of their teens, 1225 01:06:16,305 --> 01:06:18,349 the family of 20-year-old Shantrell Parker 1226 01:06:18,432 --> 01:06:20,267 and 20-year-old Gavonte Lampkin 1227 01:06:20,351 --> 01:06:22,395 are trying to come to terms with their deaths, 1228 01:06:22,478 --> 01:06:24,397 both of them shot and killed, 1229 01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:27,650 their bodies burned beyond recognition in Algiers. 1230 01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:30,611 KEWONE CARTO: So, I'm still thinking 1231 01:06:30,695 --> 01:06:31,696 it was a dream, like, 1232 01:06:31,779 --> 01:06:33,155 we're gonna wake up from it or something. 1233 01:06:33,239 --> 01:06:35,116 REPORTER 2: Kewone Carto says she grew up 1234 01:06:35,199 --> 01:06:37,118 with 18-year-old Shantrell Parker, 1235 01:06:37,201 --> 01:06:39,370 who was killed alongside 20-year-old 1236 01:06:39,453 --> 01:06:41,706 Gavonte Lampkin, July 29th. 1237 01:06:41,789 --> 01:06:45,543 She says Lampkin was the father of Parker's two children. 1238 01:06:45,626 --> 01:06:48,129 STUDENT: What is it like being an only child? 1239 01:06:48,212 --> 01:06:50,172 What it's like being an only child is 1240 01:06:50,256 --> 01:06:54,677 I get anything I want, and I sleep peacefully. 1241 01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:57,430 I want to go to school to major in counseling. 1242 01:06:57,513 --> 01:07:01,976 STUDENT: Why do you want to go to school to be a counselor? 1243 01:07:02,059 --> 01:07:03,728 I want to go to school and be a counselor 1244 01:07:03,811 --> 01:07:05,896 because I want to help people 1245 01:07:05,980 --> 01:07:08,274 'cause I have been through a lot in my life, 1246 01:07:08,357 --> 01:07:11,235 and I know what it feels like to not have, 1247 01:07:11,318 --> 01:07:13,946 and I know what it feels like to feel 1248 01:07:14,029 --> 01:07:15,448 that no one is here for you. 1249 01:07:15,531 --> 01:07:18,492 STUDENT: What does it feel like to have no one here for you? 1250 01:07:19,201 --> 01:07:21,078 It feels like, 1251 01:07:21,162 --> 01:07:23,414 you won't, like-- no one's here for you. 1252 01:07:23,497 --> 01:07:27,334 Like, it's no love. Like, nobody don't love you, 1253 01:07:27,418 --> 01:07:30,004 and you always need that extra shoulder 1254 01:07:30,087 --> 01:07:31,505 to lean on when you're down. 1255 01:07:38,012 --> 01:07:39,054 Yeah. 1256 01:07:40,806 --> 01:07:45,561 Like, the anxi-- the anxiety in New Orleans 1257 01:07:45,644 --> 01:07:48,647 of just simply walking to your car, 1258 01:07:49,690 --> 01:07:51,525 you know, like, the anxiety in New Orleans 1259 01:07:51,609 --> 01:07:53,986 of just simply riding in the car, 1260 01:07:54,069 --> 01:07:56,447 just sleeping by a window or, like, you know, like... 1261 01:07:56,530 --> 01:08:00,409 like just... existing, just living... 1262 01:08:00,493 --> 01:08:04,622 you know? That shit is like-- That shit'll drive you crazy. 1263 01:08:04,705 --> 01:08:06,916 And then, you know, I go other places, and like, 1264 01:08:06,999 --> 01:08:09,835 I feel totally free of that, you know? 1265 01:08:09,919 --> 01:08:12,838 And like, I love my city, but I'm just saying that, like, 1266 01:08:14,048 --> 01:08:18,302 my anxiety is at the highest when I'm home. 1267 01:08:18,385 --> 01:08:25,226 ♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1268 01:08:33,067 --> 01:08:34,360 EDWARD: There's nothing that calms me 1269 01:08:34,443 --> 01:08:35,903 like being around my family. 1270 01:08:37,404 --> 01:08:39,365 GPS: The destination is on your right. 1271 01:08:39,448 --> 01:08:41,075 EDWARD: Tina told me that she missed everyone 1272 01:08:41,158 --> 01:08:42,827 on my last trip there. 1273 01:08:42,910 --> 01:08:44,078 GPS: Arrived. 1274 01:08:45,412 --> 01:08:46,497 We're back. 1275 01:08:46,580 --> 01:08:47,998 So, I decided to gather 1276 01:08:48,082 --> 01:08:50,084 all of my cousins together for a reunion. 1277 01:08:50,626 --> 01:08:51,669 Hey. 1278 01:08:56,841 --> 01:09:00,344 What's up, little one? We got everybody with us. 1279 01:09:01,428 --> 01:09:02,888 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1280 01:09:04,557 --> 01:09:06,433 Yeah. (CHUCKLES) 1281 01:09:07,726 --> 01:09:09,520 EDWARD: I figured we could use that. 1282 01:09:09,603 --> 01:09:11,397 (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) 1283 01:09:13,107 --> 01:09:14,859 EDWARD: Tina gonna be happy to see everybody. 1284 01:09:14,942 --> 01:09:16,402 -I know. -Erica. 1285 01:09:18,070 --> 01:09:21,198 -So, what's everybody name? -(ALL LAUGH) 1286 01:09:21,282 --> 01:09:22,366 I never met-- 1287 01:09:22,449 --> 01:09:24,326 EDWARD: She said, "What's everybody name?" 1288 01:09:24,410 --> 01:09:26,036 Oh, yeah. There you are. 1289 01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:28,998 -RyRy, Kai. -SHIRLEY: Araya, and Kai. 1290 01:09:31,750 --> 01:09:32,877 What you sayin', boy? 1291 01:09:34,170 --> 01:09:35,254 What's up? 1292 01:09:35,337 --> 01:09:38,215 -(ALL LAUGH) -(SMOOCHES) 1293 01:09:39,383 --> 01:09:40,634 EDWARD: What's up? 1294 01:09:41,093 --> 01:09:42,428 (SMOOCHES) 1295 01:09:42,511 --> 01:09:44,763 TINA: Come on, boy. This party getting big. 1296 01:09:44,847 --> 01:09:51,145 ♪ (INSPIRING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1297 01:10:08,495 --> 01:10:11,457 (BIRDS CHIRPING) 1298 01:10:29,350 --> 01:10:31,268 (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) 1299 01:10:37,399 --> 01:10:39,360 CIERRA: I think it's hard to talk about Katrina, 1300 01:10:39,443 --> 01:10:43,822 because it takes having some form of vulnerability. 1301 01:10:44,907 --> 01:10:46,450 (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) 1302 01:10:46,951 --> 01:10:47,952 CIERRA: You know 1303 01:10:48,035 --> 01:10:51,789 acknowledging that something happened to you 1304 01:10:51,872 --> 01:10:53,415 and that it wasn't okay. 1305 01:10:59,421 --> 01:11:01,256 If you're not able to be vulnerable, 1306 01:11:02,174 --> 01:11:03,342 how do you heal? 1307 01:11:08,555 --> 01:11:11,058 It's decades after Katrina hit. 1308 01:11:12,309 --> 01:11:14,186 So much becomes built up 1309 01:11:14,269 --> 01:11:17,398 in those decades where it was not talked about. 1310 01:11:21,110 --> 01:11:23,570 Being able to tell my Katrina story 1311 01:11:23,654 --> 01:11:27,491 has been, you know, part of my healing process, 1312 01:11:27,574 --> 01:11:29,159 healing something that you didn't even know 1313 01:11:29,243 --> 01:11:30,995 needed to be healed to begin with. 1314 01:11:36,917 --> 01:11:38,919 MIDCITY AB: New Orleans is an African city. 1315 01:11:40,421 --> 01:11:41,463 We're oral people... 1316 01:11:42,589 --> 01:11:44,466 sitting around a fire, 1317 01:11:44,550 --> 01:11:47,720 telling stories passed down through generations. 1318 01:11:55,644 --> 01:11:57,187 It's been therapeutic. 1319 01:11:59,690 --> 01:12:01,775 Katrina is becoming a folktale... 1320 01:12:04,945 --> 01:12:06,572 and we're the storytellers. 1321 01:12:10,534 --> 01:12:12,536 CALVIN: Telling my story, 1322 01:12:12,619 --> 01:12:14,705 it inspired, you know, a lot of others 1323 01:12:14,788 --> 01:12:16,790 that's going through the same thing. 1324 01:12:16,874 --> 01:12:18,500 It makes them just want to speak up more 1325 01:12:18,584 --> 01:12:20,294 'cause they know they're not by theyself. 1326 01:12:21,211 --> 01:12:22,296 (BELL CHIMING) 1327 01:12:22,379 --> 01:12:24,423 CALVIN: I feel like nobody should be that young 1328 01:12:24,506 --> 01:12:26,133 going through shit like that. 1329 01:12:30,095 --> 01:12:33,515 Really, I want-- I'm... I'm trying to change myself. 1330 01:12:36,143 --> 01:12:40,022 I want better in life than this. I want to raise a family. 1331 01:12:41,732 --> 01:12:43,067 SPEAKER: When I look at the videos... 1332 01:12:43,150 --> 01:12:44,860 CALVIN: Oh, no, man. 1333 01:12:44,943 --> 01:12:46,570 (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) 1334 01:12:53,577 --> 01:12:55,162 MIESHA: You gonna get through it, 1335 01:12:55,245 --> 01:12:57,164 but you have to have faith that you would. 1336 01:12:59,166 --> 01:13:03,712 My journey right now is really to be the best that I can be. 1337 01:13:05,214 --> 01:13:07,674 I want to learn new things, 1338 01:13:07,758 --> 01:13:10,803 and that just, like, drives me to keep going. 1339 01:13:12,304 --> 01:13:14,765 I got things that I want to accomplish... 1340 01:13:16,225 --> 01:13:20,813 got places I want to go. I'm older now, and... 1341 01:13:20,896 --> 01:13:24,024 look at me. I made it. I made it out. (CHUCKLES) 1342 01:13:33,408 --> 01:13:34,660 DAMARIS: Every time they give me 1343 01:13:34,743 --> 01:13:39,414 a new health diagnosis, like diabetes formed after, 1344 01:13:39,498 --> 01:13:41,458 like, all these different things, 1345 01:13:41,542 --> 01:13:42,793 and I try not to think about it. 1346 01:13:42,876 --> 01:13:47,214 But it's like how would my life be now 1347 01:13:47,297 --> 01:13:49,424 if I'd never stayed in that trailer? 1348 01:13:51,718 --> 01:13:54,388 I really don't tell my story 1349 01:13:54,471 --> 01:13:57,307 because I don't want you to feel sorry for me. 1350 01:13:57,391 --> 01:14:01,270 I never wanted to be the so-called cancer patient. 1351 01:14:01,353 --> 01:14:03,021 Like, I want you to look at me, 1352 01:14:03,105 --> 01:14:05,816 and I want you to see the person that I am, 1353 01:14:05,899 --> 01:14:09,278 the person that I was before I even got sick. 1354 01:14:09,361 --> 01:14:11,280 Like, I just want to be me. 1355 01:14:12,406 --> 01:14:18,120 ♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1356 01:14:41,476 --> 01:14:43,729 EDWARD: When everything around you is set up 1357 01:14:43,812 --> 01:14:47,316 in a way that it's not meant for you to survive, 1358 01:14:47,399 --> 01:14:49,776 resilience is when you still find a way 1359 01:14:49,860 --> 01:14:52,237 to have your head up and help yourself. 1360 01:14:55,073 --> 01:14:58,493 But sometimes I feel like resilience is used as a tool 1361 01:14:58,577 --> 01:15:00,996 because they want people to think, 1362 01:15:01,079 --> 01:15:02,080 "Oh, no. Everything is okay. 1363 01:15:02,164 --> 01:15:03,874 These people are good, like, they're strong. 1364 01:15:03,957 --> 01:15:06,084 Look at how much they've overcome." 1365 01:15:09,671 --> 01:15:10,756 So, like, I feel like 1366 01:15:10,839 --> 01:15:12,716 it's for me to say when I'm resilient. 1367 01:15:12,799 --> 01:15:14,843 It's for me to say what is resilient. 1368 01:15:14,927 --> 01:15:16,094 It's not for you. 1369 01:15:36,657 --> 01:15:39,409 ♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC CONCLUDING) ♪ 1370 01:15:39,493 --> 01:15:41,495 EDWARD: You know, it's the whole idea of saying 1371 01:15:41,578 --> 01:15:43,914 that New Orleans is rebuilt. 1372 01:15:45,123 --> 01:15:46,166 It's not. 1373 01:15:55,509 --> 01:15:57,052 Even though we are resilient, 1374 01:15:58,053 --> 01:15:59,846 we can never get back what was lost. 1375 01:16:06,603 --> 01:16:08,230 ♪ ("RUSHES TO" BY FRANK OCEAN PLAYING) ♪ 1376 01:16:08,313 --> 01:16:13,151 ♪ Saturdays involved Making our entrances ♪ 1377 01:16:13,235 --> 01:16:19,283 ♪ Into life outside, we've been In this room too long ♪ 1378 01:16:19,366 --> 01:16:24,788 ♪ Recreation is keeping us Self-contained and aware ♪ 1379 01:16:24,871 --> 01:16:26,957 ♪ Of each other's forms ♪ 1380 01:16:27,040 --> 01:16:31,003 ♪ Still and in Full strides just the same ♪ 1381 01:16:31,086 --> 01:16:35,424 ♪ Keeping us warm Walking in straight lines ♪ 1382 01:16:35,507 --> 01:16:39,803 ♪ Talking to sleep at night Coddled and pacified ♪ 1383 01:16:39,886 --> 01:16:45,017 ♪ By versions of mothers It's all new to me ♪ 1384 01:16:45,100 --> 01:16:49,938 ♪ It's all new to me Having you around ♪ 1385 01:16:51,565 --> 01:16:55,652 ♪ It's all new to me It's all new to me ♪ 1386 01:16:55,736 --> 01:16:58,363 ♪ Having you around the Higgs ♪ 1387 01:16:58,447 --> 01:17:02,492 ♪ What if we decide To live by choice? ♪ 1388 01:17:02,576 --> 01:17:06,705 ♪ All this time I knew That average was ♪ 1389 01:17:06,788 --> 01:17:11,293 ♪ Something to fall back on After genius ends ♪ 1390 01:17:11,376 --> 01:17:15,380 ♪ I watch video Only difference is ♪ 1391 01:17:15,464 --> 01:17:17,174 ♪ It's flattened and remiss ♪ 1392 01:17:17,257 --> 01:17:21,094 ♪ Sparks of lightning Storm behind wet faces ♪ 1393 01:17:21,178 --> 01:17:26,224 ♪ Slipped my pants back on And rewind it backward more ♪ 1394 01:17:26,308 --> 01:17:30,520 ♪ The tape stopped before I was back alone ♪ 1395 01:17:31,646 --> 01:17:37,611 ♪ I'll be back before The streetlight's on ♪ 1396 01:17:37,694 --> 01:17:40,405 ♪ Before the daylight's gone ♪ 1397 01:17:40,489 --> 01:17:46,370 ♪ I was spoiled By lavish thoughts ♪ 1398 01:17:46,453 --> 01:17:52,334 ♪ They don't compare, no Not at all ♪ 1399 01:17:52,417 --> 01:17:56,254 ♪ And had this been the past I might not know... ♪ 1400 01:17:56,338 --> 01:17:57,839 TINA: Morning, Quentin. 1401 01:17:57,923 --> 01:17:59,341 -TINA: Y'all having fun? -Yeah. 1402 01:17:59,424 --> 01:18:01,343 Excuse me, but I'm too hot for TV. 1403 01:18:01,426 --> 01:18:03,595 TINA: Okay, baby. (LAUGHS) 1404 01:18:03,679 --> 01:18:09,184 ♪ What you give My words can't hold ♪ 1405 01:18:09,267 --> 01:18:16,233 ♪ And if acts of God Breaks us apart ♪ 1406 01:18:17,734 --> 01:18:23,156 ♪ Least we did ours, turn back ♪ 1407 01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:29,454 ♪ Turn back, turn Back, turn back ♪ 1408 01:18:30,372 --> 01:18:35,210 ♪ Back, back, back, back ♪ 1409 01:18:36,545 --> 01:18:41,299 ♪ If you've never ♪ 1410 01:18:42,050 --> 01:18:46,138 ♪ Been in love ♪ 1411 01:19:06,032 --> 01:19:09,828 ♪ ("RUSHES TO" BY FRANK OCEAN CONCLUDING) ♪ 1412 01:19:24,759 --> 01:19:30,807 ♪ One can't explain Nor it can contain ♪ 1413 01:19:30,891 --> 01:19:36,688 ♪ The pouring rain The swarming pain ♪ 1414 01:19:36,771 --> 01:19:42,027 ♪ Try to escape. Damn Here it comes again ♪ 1415 01:19:49,075 --> 01:19:54,873 ♪ Old photos Of the kind of love ♪ 1416 01:19:54,956 --> 01:20:01,004 ♪ That just because The soul it was ♪ 1417 01:20:01,087 --> 01:20:06,301 ♪ Some light decay Like falling dust ♪ 1418 01:20:12,933 --> 01:20:17,229 ♪ And though I feel Like I'm broken ♪ 1419 01:20:19,105 --> 01:20:23,235 ♪ Silent sounds have me open ♪ 1420 01:20:25,195 --> 01:20:31,952 ♪ I can't breathe But I won't leave ♪ 1421 01:20:37,290 --> 01:20:41,586 ♪ Can't you feel the day? ♪ 1422 01:20:43,171 --> 01:20:48,009 ♪ Can you hear What I'm saying? ♪ 1423 01:20:49,427 --> 01:20:55,976 ♪ I can't breathe But I won't leave ♪