Anaology Check 2 Cities 2Stadiums
The housing of 10,000 fire evacuees at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium drew comparisons with New Orleans’s post-Katrina chaos. The Superdome had death and mayhem; Qualcomm had Starbucks and free massages. The unspoken (and bogus) insinuation: affluent, white San Diego behaved better than poor, black New Orleans. New Orleans tragically assumed citizens would flee the area altogether rather than stay in the stadium, even though 100,000 residents didn’t have cars or any transport out....