Dauté Martin: 'The Black community of [New Orleans] are a people that has been displaced at least three times: first by slavery; again by the storm; and a third time by mostly white outsiders who love our city’s 'vibe.''
Orlando Harrington and his daughter, Deseris, 4, as they waited for buses with other displaced residents after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.How much does childhood trauma affect a person’s life? What about the life of an entire city? These are among the questions Edward Buckles Jr. leaves viewers to grapple with in his new documentary, “Katrina Babies,” which premiered on HBO on Aug. 24 to mark the 17th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
After the storm, “Katrina babies” was an expression I’d hear teachers use, often with a sad shake of the head, when kids would misbehave or a fight would break out at school. Now I hear it when the city’s gun violence claims the life of yet another person I grew up with.
It wasn’t always like this. “Katrina Babies” begins with Buckles describing New Orleans before the hurricane changed everything: how he and his cousins gathered at his Aunt Tina’s house in the 7th Ward. In beautiful animations, Buckles illustrates his memories of playing outside with his cousins until the streetlights came on.
New Orleans never really rebuilt — it gentrified. We, the Black community of our city, are a people that has been displaced at least three times: first by slavery; again by the storm; and a third time by mostly white outsiders who love our city’s “vibe” — its generosity, its free-spiritedness, its constant celebrations. They don’t understand that vibe was constructed by generations of my ancestors, some of the first Black people to live freely in North America.
The Bywater, traditionally a Black neighborhood, is filled with white hipsters and Airbnbs now. And the annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, one of our city’s greatest prides, looks more like Coachella each year.
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