[Ayla]

Frankly it rather pisses me off that they have made a race issue out of this. If anything, it's an issue about poverty.

Someone else already mentioned this but...If the city of New Orlean is like 70% black wouldn't it make sense then that most of the people in that city that were affected were black? Have they forgotten that there ARE a whites left behind? And hispanics? and other cultures too? No, lets all focus on the black community and give the NAACP some more air time to bitch and whine.

If they want to pitch a fit over something, they need to do it over the elderly and disabled that weren't provided assistance by the mayor and the power structure of the city (who is by the way primarily black). Let's talk about the fact that the people who didn't have the means to leave the city were given very few options. I saw on CNN and old lady who died in her wheelchair near a wall at the superdome...with a note pinned to herself. That never should have happened. There were elderly left in nursing homes that flooded and they drowned. That's a crime against humanity in my opinion.

It's awful and horrible, and the residents left behind were done a dis-service by thier city and state and federal government...BUT it has NOTHING to do with the color of their skin. President Bush didn't SEND that hurricane there just to wipe some blacks out. That's where they're acting like. No wait...that must be it...Bush controls the weather. Aha...now things are coming clear... OMG!