Kansan multimedia editor Caroline McCone interviews Niya McAdoo, a senior studying African and African American studies. McAdoo is also a visual artist.
an associate professor of african and american studies at princeton university and also an msnbc contributor. good to have you face-to-face. good to be here. you say that the rising mississippi river is a reminder of our interdependence and could be used as a metaphor politically. why? my family and i live in new orleans. although i m here with you in new york, we re looking at the realities of flooding. it s very personal. on the one hand i recognize that this is not a metaphor and it s about people, real people losing homes and property. on the other hand, i think that as we look at these kinds of disasters, we need to draw political lessons from them, not just the human interest stories. there s also a lesson about our need to work together in communities and as a government, frankly. you talked about being from new orleans, which obviously you re very passionate about. do you think we learned the lessons from katrina and now incorporate them to be able to roll out those les