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What we are now witnessing in the 21st century is the fracture or complete breakdown of families, societies, and governments as a result of centuries of dehumanization that have taken a toll. More natural disasters (tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, etc.) merely uncover the reality of the national disasters we have created by granting sanctuary to dehumanization via the law.

Liza Lugo , in How Do Hurricane Katrina's Winds Blow? Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans
family society discrimination government dehumanization hurricanes natural-disasters abuse-of-power national-disasters

What we are now witnessing in the 21st century is the fracture or complete breakdown of families, societies, and governments as a result of centuries of dehumanization that have taken a toll. More natural disasters (tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, etc.) merely uncover the reality of the national disasters we have created by grandting sanctuary to dehumanization via the law.

Liza Lugo , in How Do Hurricane Katrina's Winds Blow? Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans
family society discrimination dehumanization hurricanes natural-disasters abuse-of-power national-disasters