I'm sure though, if a white guy came out and said, "Damn, we'd be fine if there weren't so many black people down in New Orleans, we'd have less casualties!" it would be absolutely detestable.
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The majority of the people trapped in New Orleans are black. Everyone agreed on that, correct?
Duh...though there are plenty of whites as well.
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While I do believe it does have a little bit to do with racism
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However, one thing that does disgust me is this and this is why I feel there may have been some racism. Most of the people trapped in New Orleans right now are black and do live paycheck by paycheck. They could not afford to leave even if they wanted to. Why didn't the government, whether state or federal, help transport them OUT of New Orleans?
Granted, many of the people that could not evacuate were the poorest, but I fail to see how this implicates the US government of racism. It's a demographic issue, not racism. It's not like if the poor people were all white, the situation would be different.
What was the government going to do though? I mean, they had been warning people it was going to be bad, get out while you can, and whatnot? I think that this is going to end up being a model for future events (hopefully there never is a need) as to how not handle the emergency management.
