The video clip of the African-American evacuee I linked to earlier, I should have mentioned, was not of any person. It was of Charmaine Neville. A New Orleans native emails:
I saw the clip you linked to earlier of the woman who escaped the 9th Ward. That’s not just any woman, either. In New Orleans, she’s about as big a celebrity as her uncle, Aaron Neville, the singer. To New Orleanians, it’s shocking that even she was trapped in the city.
Here’s more detail on her. One thing I keep thinking: there’s still so much we don’t know about what really went on in New Orleans. Imagine what they have kept from us on Iraq. Or do they even know?
The Dish 