Katrina Racism, in reverse

First off ... do we see now why it is ludicrous to blame George W. Bush for what happened in New Orleans? This Nagin is not only incompetent and derelict, but reckless ... a combination that proved deadly to the weakest people of New Orleans. His actions also explain how the catastrophe happened ... he was willing to risk the lives of his constituents for God knows what reason ... he just seems to have this hang-up about putting and keeping people in a dangerous place. It took another Cat-5 roaring toward him for Nagin to finally realize that repopulating the city too soon will sink his butt for good.

Racism, however, may help to explain why so many blacks got caught up in the catastrophe once the levees broke. The liberal picture is that they were too poor to get out ... which we can easily see is a lie. How do you explain 1,000s of cars (the number I heard reported was 200,000 vehicles, but that sounded like way too big a number) that the insurance institute(s) are saying they are going to have to make good on? In just about every picture I have seen of people wading through the swill, you see a half dozen or so vehicles under water. Insurance facts say 75% of the BLACK people in New Orleans owned a car (vs. 85% of white people). There were plenty of cars to get out ... I won't bother bringing up the buses again. So why did people stay?

I believe a big reason is that this mayor obviously did not take things as seriously as he should have until it was too late. The guy never even pulled out the emergency plan, and ended up doing some things that the plan specifically said not to do ... he just did not take it seriously. I would guess that the racist thing played into it, but reverse of what liberals want you to believe ... black folks seem to inherently trust black leaders, so they watched Nagin and did not realize they were in trouble until it was too late. White folks probably realized Nagin was in over his head (maybe that's racist or maybe just practical experience with this guy) and white folks got out.

It appears the bus drivers (white or black) also realized Nagin's failings and cleared out as well (I am assuming they really did try to call in the buses, which is probably yet another CYA lie by the democrats). His police officers also bailed out ... I doubt this is race based given that many of the cops are black ... they seemed to also know the type of "leadership" Nagin was capable of.

Another reason for the large numbers of folks left behind, one which no politician will dare bring up for fear of being branded a racist, is theft. There are a lot of scumbags in New Orleans ... I have pointed out that the numbers for murder, violent crime, burglary, etc; are ridiculously high. Many of the people staying behind, and plenty that came in from other areas, were looking to cash in big on the looting going on ... there were running gunfights with automatic weapons in the streets between rival thugs. In support of this theory, all hell broke loose and the "big" targets were hit almost immediately (faster, it seems, than the cops were even thinking of it); a higher level of intelligence tells you that these scum were thinking about this ahead of time.

Anticipation of this criminal outbreak could explain some additional holdouts: people who were willing to brave the elements to try to protect their homes and businesses from scumbags, not weather.

By the way ... this discussion presumes that everybody left behind was black, while everybody that got out was white. Again, if you listen to Farakhan and Jackson (and the echoes from Clinton, Pelosi and Reid) this is what you are supposed to believe. The truth is radically different from this. Everybody suffered, whites lost as much as blacks, rich folks lost a lot more than poor folks (they had more to lose), and the suffering is universal.

Nonetheless, I do think that if "racism" was in play, it can in fact explain why blacks stayed with their mayor while whites fled the scene.

We now know, from perfect 20-20 hindsight, that we should NEVER allow democrats to be in charge of anything.