New Orleans' Katrina

Author: Beverly Kimble Davis. Published Book 2021. 243 Premium glossy pages 8.5'x11'

NEW ORLEANS' KATRINA: History and Law of Yesteryear In Force Today, is a compelling expose’ of the holocaust which took place in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. It highlights many of the atrocities, injustices, and unreported events inflicted on predominantly Black and poor White people.

New Orleans’ flood victims were treated inhumanely. The survivors were considered, and referred to, as ‘insurgents’, enemies of the state’, ‘detainees’, ‘criminals’, ‘game’, ‘thugs’, and as ‘animals’. Regarded ‘as expendable,’ they were sacrificed, abandoned, and discarded. They were subjected to an aggressive white supremacy agenda which could be traced back to the Popes, Kings, and Queens of the First Century, A.D. Persecution, domestic terrorism, and vigilantism was carried out on many levels by those who had no concern for accountability.

There were New Orleanians and others who were moved to their core. Among them was Beverly Kimble Davis who was compelled to become a truth seeker, and recorder of facts. Angered, stunned, and shaken by the cruelty she witnessed, she made it her mission to ensure the world learns of and remembers what happened. Armed with paint and canvas, she committed to recording as many of the unreported assaults as she could. Consequently, Beverly amassed an amazing visual body of work as testimony. Her series of 13 paintings is entitled, ’ The New Orleans Katrina Holocaust.’ Beverly is determined that this tragic historical event be documented and preserved for future historians and social anthropologists.

Despite critical acclaim and global recognition, Beverly felt that her paintings alone did not give enough insight into what happened after the flood. In her desire to develop a greater understanding, she began in-depth research of history to complement her paintings. Her research led Beverly as far back as the papal bulls, ancient texts, and long-forgotten laws codified into our National Constitution, and those of the states. Beverly discovered a correlation between the way the people were treated after the flood, and the global systems of racism woven into the very fabric of Western Civilization. What she learned was far more sinister than what she thought she had already known about the Black experience.

Why is it that the U.S., which has a history of rescuing and aiding victims of tragedies in other countries, failed to do the same for the citizens of New Orleans?

The horrific flood that followed Katrina did not rid New Orleans of those deemed ‘expendable’. Power men stepped in. Members of New Orleans’ elite insisted that the new city must have fewer Black and poor people - something very different. Ethnic Cleansing on steroids.

New Orleans Katrina: History and Law of Yesteryear in Force Today has a plethora of references enabling a thorough, well researched scholarly investigation of what transpired. It will be viewed as invaluable and essential to educators, readers, students, historians, and social anthropologists.