NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Subrina McCrary believes President Obama can support New Orleans’ recovery from Hurricane Katrina by creating more jobs and helping build better schools. What she doesn’t want is Obama using her Lower 9th Ward neighborhood as just another photo op.On Thursday, Obama makes his first visit to the city since becoming president, and McCrary’s community will be one of the stops.She lives on Flood Street, in a neighborhood at the epicenter of Katrina’s devastation. The area was inundated by the torrent of water that poured through levees when the hurricane struck in August 2005.”We need a lot of stuff around here,” McCrary, 43, said from her largely desolate street near the Dr. King Charter School the president will visit.
A weary, hopeful New Orleans awaits Obama’s visit
October 14, 2009