Cyril Neville tells it like it is...

Here's a great Austin Chronicle profile and interview with Cyril Neville, now living in Austin after being forced out of New Orleans by Katrina. He's got a lot to say about what's going on in New Orleans, and it's too good to excerpt, but here's a sampling:

"What happened during Katrina was not an evacuation as much as a roundup and a forced displacement," insists Neville. "It was the height of arrogance, greed, conceit, and disdain for a people who you think are less human than you. As that wind blew through New Orleans and that forced migration took place, that was the end, or at least a lot of people want it to be the end, of African-American political power in New Orleans."

As they say, read the whole thing. (Article by way of Andy Axel, photo by R. Neal, from Neville Bros. performance in Knoxville TN, June 16, 2005.)