Below is the essay by Baba Leon Waters, Curator of the Louisiana Museum of African American History, titled State Terror and White Supremacy Triumph “Temporarily” in New Orleans, written on July 3, 2015, just under ten years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Louisiana.  Baba Leon Waters had ridden out the hurricane when it struck in 2005, and this essay comes from his experiences in the ten days of the immediate crisis, his forced removal from the city by armed police afterward, and what he found upon his return five weeks later.