TRUE. About 67 percent of the city's residents were black before the hurricane Katrina, and approximately 30 percent of them were poor.
Many of New Orleans' most needy residents were made even more vulnerable as a result of Katrina, which made these situations worse. African Americans made up a disproportionately large number of the refugees, who sought safety under motorway bridges in thefor days before assistance came in the adjoining convention centre and the city's sports complex. Reporters monitoring the site compared it more to a sight from a post-tsunami Indonesia or a war-torn Somalia than to one of the richest countries in the world. The tragedy quickly became a representation of the nation's racial and economic inequality.
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