dont' mind at all Merika
How does Kanye West's mum having been a professor of something negate his statement about george W hating balck people? The two things are completely unrelated.
As far as looting goes, I think they were just small groups of people. I've never been to a supermarket in the US but I have never seen a raft on any of the shelves in any of the shops near where I live (and it's a big city too), just in case there's a flood and I need to break in and take one. Maybe New Orlean's was different and local shop owners had spècial offers on rafts and floating things in the weeks before the hurricane but didn't sell enough so there were some left to be taken after the winds died down a bit.