Here are some excerpts from some dailykos bloggers who are talking about race & the abysmal seemingly uncaring & imo definitely criminal lack of preparation & totally insufficient response to this devastation that should have been forseen by "our" government:

"...Let's remember it's not just black people

In Mississippi and other parts of Louisiana there are many communities still waiting for help, some of which are mostly white.

I saw Joe Scarborough being outraged last night about the lack of response from officials and he was reporting from a town in Mississippi.

Anderson Cooper also did some good reporting from there. People of all races.

The situation in New Orleans really is mostly poor blacks that were affected but there is serious devastation all around as well.

Just pointing that out because I don't want anyone to feel left out..."
by diplomatic on Fri Sep 2nd, 2005

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"true

but not being able to get food and water to a major city for 5 days and most of the people there are black. Would that happen to Duluth Minn? I do not think so.

The people of New Orleans, the latest casualties of Iraq"
by Jlukes

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"Oh of course not

Listen, if the majority of the people in New Orleans or at the superdome where white President Bush himself would be out there handing out water like he did in Florida.

We all know it. The media seems to know it. This is America. No longer separate, but unequal..."
by diplomatic on Fri Sep 2nd, 2005

-snip-

New Orleans-Congo Square, the birthplace of jazz, zydeco, let the good times roll, that in & of itself is so increadible sad but this inhumane treatment of people...

I don't have any words to convey my feelings. Someone PMed me and asked if I was angry. My response was that I'm too frozen to be angry. As an African American this hits me hard because I feared for the worse of the natural disaster, but I expected the government to be much much better prepared-after all what good is FEMA and the Dept.of Homeland Security??? Apparently not good at all.

I actually was foolish enough to expect Bush to put on a caring facade and do a PR thing, using this tragedy to get his ratings up. But in my opinion he hasn't even tried to fake concern. His concern is what it has always been -the oil.

Bush played golf, pretended to play a guitar & took a birthday cake photo op. Black Aunt Jemima Condi played tennis, went to a Broadway play & then went shopping for shoes. And Dick Cheney- where is Dick Cheney and why is he where he is and what in the world is he doing there??

This whole thing is FUBAR.