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Amid Images of Black Victims, Many Ask: Was Race a Factor?
Hurricane Katrina had no deliberate target, but in the aftermath it's clear that the victims - who are now facing a horrifying lack of rescue and care - are mostly black and mostly poor.
So many photographs from the devastation of New Orleans show the same faces: Desperate. Grief-stricken. Black.
"Love has no color," Cassandra Robinson said as she huddled with her family in a parking entrance along New Orleans' Convention Center Boulevard. "But I've seen where this is all black and everybody else who is Caucasian, they're up high in the hotels."
In fact, those in hotels complained bitterly they were neglected, too. But Robinson's comment echoes those of others who question the part race may have pl
ayed in New Orleans' crippling crisis.
Would the response have been more urgent if
the victims had been mainly white? Is economic class a factor even more than race?
In Orleans Parish, where the boundaries are the same as the city limits, 66.6 percent of the residents are black. The black population nationwide is 12.1 percent.
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It must have been the racist Bush Republican administration that was
testing out one of their secret weather control weapons on the 'Big Easy'
Black Target in a covert attempt at black genocide! h34r:
Amid Images of Black Victims, Many Ask: Was Race a Factor?
Amid images of black victims, many ask was race a factor
HURRICANE Katrina had no deliberate target, but in the aftermath it is clear that the victims, who are now facing a horrifying lack of rescue and care, are mostly black and mostly poor. So many ...
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Hurricane Katrina had no deliberate target, but in the aftermath it's clear that the victims - who are now facing a horrifying lack of rescue and care - are mostly black and mostly poor.
So many photographs from the devastation of New Orleans show the same faces: Desperate. Grief-stricken. Black.
"Love has no color," Cassandra Robinson said as she huddled with her family in a parking entrance along New Orleans' Convention Center Boulevard. "But I've seen where this is all black and everybody else who is Caucasian, they're up high in the hotels."
In fact, those in hotels complained bitterly they were neglected, too. But Robinson's comment echoes those of others who question the part race may have pl
ayed in New Orleans' crippling crisis.
Would the response have been more urgent if
the victims had been mainly white? Is economic class a factor even more than race?
In Orleans Parish, where the boundaries are the same as the city limits, 66.6 percent of the residents are black. The black population nationwide is 12.1 percent.
(more at link)
***********************************************************
It must have been the racist Bush Republican administration that was
testing out one of their secret weather control weapons on the 'Big Easy'
Black Target in a covert attempt at black genocide! h34r:
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