The anniversary of the disaster that left 80 per cent of New Orleans under water has seen the city rebuilt and its economy revived. But shadows of old injustices remain In the old world, before Hurricane Katrina hit the news on 29 August 2005, journalist friends from foreign parts – places like New York or San Francisco – would pass through this city, and after a dreamy day wandering on colonial streets in the French Quarter, invariably ask: “So, what’s it really like, living here?”And I, a native son on a leafy street far from the old plaza where the town began in 1718, opening out like the slow unfolding of a lady’s fan as plantations became neighbourhoods, always gave the same answer: “Politically, nothing important happens; in fact, it’