Katrina victims testify on racism's role

AP/mlive.com ^ | 12/6/2005, 5:58 p.m. ET | LARA JAKES JORDAN

[dancusa]

The MSM has not publizied this:

The facts, though, indicate that Katrina was an equal-opportunity drowner. Of the identified victims released to families from a makeshift New Orleans morgue, 44 percent were African-American, 47 percent Caucasian, 3 percent Hispanic and 8 percent unknown. Nor were blacks the only ones to see their homes destroyed. Katrina's storm surge demolished 95 percent of the homes in 95 percent white St. Bernard parish.

[Smokin' Joe]

I was done with the ARC in '79.

I sent my money to the Salvation Army.

It has been my experience that they do well with disaster aid, take care of everyone who needs it that they can.

Also they spend very little on overhead and salaries. Most of the money goes where you send it.

Like you, I didn't even think of race as an issue until others made an issue out of it.