When the water is drained and the bodies are counted, the vast majority of the dead will most likely be poor and black. Most agree that the time for a response commensurate to the scale of the tragedy was a travesty. In the end, race and class may prove to have been a significant factor.

While I wasn't there to hear her performance, I can't fault Carla based on the words you quoted. Her anger is understandable, and shared by many. I thought all lefties were rage-impaired in your book. Get mad about senseless loss of life? You're shrill.

Time to retire that adjective from the blogosphere. Bury it next to "bloviate."

"When the water is drained and the bodies are counted, the vast majority of the dead will most likely be poor and black."

Since New Orleans is 70% Afro-American, it'd be very unusual if they weren't.

" Most agree that the time for a response commensurate to the scale of the tragedy was a travesty."

Most shriekingly uninformed people do indeed believe exactly that.

" In the end, race and class may prove to have been a significant factor."

Poverty, disconnectedness and excessive dependence on government certainly will.

"While I wasn't there to hear her performance, I can't fault Carla based on the words you quoted."

That's just shocking.

" Her anger is understandable, and shared by many."

Most of them less than four years old.

" I thought all lefties were rage-impaired in your book. Get mad about senseless loss of life? You're shrill."

Nah. Not at all. I'm not digging for villains before we've found all the survivors.

"Time to retire that adjective from the blogosphere. Bury it next to "bloviate."

We'll bury what I say, when I say to bury it.

She's right though! I mean, look at the rescue operations in NO where white Coast Guardsmen are taunting and shooting at all the black people on roofs across the city!

Check out the charnel houses known as "shelters" in racist, backwards, unenlightened Texas!

I mean, look at all the pictures of white people helping black people, black people helping Vietnamese, Hispanic people helping white people, etc.

It's all about race and class!

Mitch, Micth, Mitch. You just don't get it, do you? Marx showed that the only meaningfull measure of Man is economic.. Everything has to do with race and class. The tragedy of NO is that the suffering was felt most intensely by the poor. If the hurricane had affected all people equally it wouldn't be a problem at all.
OK, I'm kidding. But that reasoning is behind a lot of left & liberal positions, even if they won't admit it.

Mayor Nagin had over 400 buses available which were supposed to be used to evacuate those without transportation, per NO's published disaster preparedness plan.

There were 145 buses were located about a mile away from the Superdome.

http://utools.com/DomeBuses.jpg

They are now under 4-10 feet of water.

Come on Gideon, you’re not fooling anyone. Everybody knows that the Bush administration ordered all of New Orleans’ buses to be deployed in Iraq months ago.