You must remember that the Mayor of New Orleans is also a Black person and he had no plan to get those poor folk out of the City did he?I do not for one minute believe that racism is or was the problem.Classism yes but not racism.The poor have no real voice.But again let us not forget that the approach of throwing money at this kind of problem is not the answer either.Oprah Winfrey tried it and it failed miserably.This is a very complicated problem and will take some very deep objective thinking and dialogue to fix.It is hard for me to see why if all it takes is money to fix things did welfare fail so miserably.People have to want to do better first and welfare is nothing but a trap.We have people of all different nationalities and colors come to this country with almost nothing and work very hard and do very well for themselves.The answer has to be in a hand up not a hand out.Feed a man fish and you will feed him forever.Teach a man to fish and he will feed himself and be a much happier productive person.Dialouge like this is part of the solution but it must be objective and honest and not about throwing stones.Let he who has done everything they can to try to solve problems like this be the first to throw the stones.mississippitom