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Ruin, Rubble & Race.(disaster relief )

Colorlines Magazine

| July 01, 2006 | Wing, Bob | COPYRIGHT 2006 Color Lines Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

IT'S AS IF THE SPOTLIGHT that Hurricane Katrina cast on the inequities of disaster relief never happened.

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San Francisco's high and mighty arc in full-throated self-celebration of the city's "rising from the ashes" of the April 18, 1906 earthquake and fire.

Forgotten are people like my great-great grandfather Lee Bo-wen, who immigrated to San Francisco's Chinatown in 1854 and reared two generations at 820 Dupont Street. His family was forcibly evacuated, never to return.

Even Dupont Street itself vanished forever. Formerly the heart of the community, it was festooned with ...

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