JW
12-18-2005, 08:20 PM
I had seen these stats before, but not in the major media. A 'disproportionate' number of the Katrina victims in New Orleans were white. And not poor. Bush couldn't get blowing the levees right.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bodies18dec18,0,7754290.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Excerpt:
New Orleans was the site of most of Katrina's fatalities; the state reported that 76% of storm deaths statewide occurred in the city. Of the 380 bodies from New Orleans that have been formally identified, a moderately disproportionate number are white. New Orleans' population was 28% white, yet 33% of the identified victims in the city are white and 67% black.
"The affected population is more multiracial, multiethnic and multicultural than one might discern from national media reports," said Richard Campanella, a Tulane University geographer who has studied which parts of the city were hit the worst by flooding. His research showed that predominantly white districts in the city were almost as likely to flood as predominantly black ones.
And one has to remember that 24% of the victims were outside New Orleans, mostly in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes, areas that have been forgotten by the national media, not to mention the Mississippi Gulf coast.
I wonder what Rev. Farrakhan will say about this?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bodies18dec18,0,7754290.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Excerpt:
New Orleans was the site of most of Katrina's fatalities; the state reported that 76% of storm deaths statewide occurred in the city. Of the 380 bodies from New Orleans that have been formally identified, a moderately disproportionate number are white. New Orleans' population was 28% white, yet 33% of the identified victims in the city are white and 67% black.
"The affected population is more multiracial, multiethnic and multicultural than one might discern from national media reports," said Richard Campanella, a Tulane University geographer who has studied which parts of the city were hit the worst by flooding. His research showed that predominantly white districts in the city were almost as likely to flood as predominantly black ones.
And one has to remember that 24% of the victims were outside New Orleans, mostly in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes, areas that have been forgotten by the national media, not to mention the Mississippi Gulf coast.
I wonder what Rev. Farrakhan will say about this?