Writer Anne Rice: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us

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Sun Sep 4, 7:48 PM ET
NEW YORK - Novelist Anne Rice harshly criticized the response to Hurricane Katrina's aftermath in her old hometown of New Orleans.
"Why did America ask a city cherished by millions and excoriated by some, but ignored by no one, to fight for its own life for so long? That's my question," Rice wrote in a New York Times op-ed piece published Sunday.
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"You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music," she continued. "Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us 'Sin City,' and turned your backs."

This report is based on an Op-Ed piece Anne Rice has written for the New York Times. This link will require a log-in:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04rice.html