Not true:
Biloxi:
White - 36177 - 71.43%
Black or African American - 9643 - 19.04%
American Indian and Alaska Native - 248 - 0.49%
Asian - 2590 - 5.11%
New Orleans:
White - 135956 - 28.05%
Black or African American - 325947 - 67.25%
American Indian and Alaska Native - 991 - 0.2%
Asian - 10972 - 2.26%
One of several questionable statements or concepts in this opinion piece, such as When Katrina hit, about 1,000 of New Orleans 1,500 police officers deserted their posts.
Welfare debilitates, no one is arguing with that, but what really motivated these looters was a sense of racial grievance, a fact that the author hints at but doesn't quite say. Such a sense of racial grievance would probably be present among blacks in any case but what really allows it break out so often and so virulently is its promotion by the liberal establishment. Black thugs and the black underclass are the physical and cultural stormtroopers of the left. Much black behavior, from the antics of so-called leaders like the Black Congressional Caucus to the baggy-pantsed-sideways-baseball-capped morons on the street should be mocked and ridiculed in the media, and would be if they were white. Had rap been non-black it would have been mocked out of existence by now. (All these things are manifestations of black separatism, BTW.) Instead this behavior prospers because it's treated with respect by the liberal establishment, and it's treated with respect not on its merits but because it is valuable to that establishment as a political, cultural and even physical weapon. That is what is important to understand.
How utterly ridiculous.
Looters are criminals who deserved to be shot on sight.
Racial grievance? Hardly. It appears that you weigh heavily in on the side of the apologist leftists.