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Now that the help has finally arrived, the media is turning from pictures and reports of looting and other mayhem, and waving around the race card. Some members of government as well have implied that the reason why New Orleans is in it’s current condition is because the helpless are mostly black. New Orleans is 67% African-American! They’re the minority majority (ty Jem), so of course when something like this happens, those who are stranded and suffering are going to be black. I think it would be more appropriate to say that the stranded are their due to being in a lower economic class, not because of their race. For that, I do in fact blame the local government for not having the resources available for those who have to live paycheck to paycheck, and couldn’t afford to evacuate anywhere other than the Super Dome. While that’s a shame, I’d like to point out that if New Orleans were 100% white, and this same disaster took place…we’d have just as many white and poor people stranded! You cannot possibly use the race card when they’re the minority. Shame on all the politicians exploiting this tragedy to further their political and mud-slinging agendas. Some clarity from this article.

At the River Center in downtown Baton Rouge, evacuees from New Orleans sat idly on cots and folding chairs. Lakeshia Evans, 29, who is black, said race did not play a factor in the rescue effort. She was brought to the state capital on Thursday from the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.

“There were white people on their houses, too,” she said. “A lot of people pull the racist card, but I think it [the storm and the conditions] affected everyone.”