Controversial question
I was discussing Hurricane Katrina with my mum and the apparent fuck up that has left thousands of people dead or stranded without food or clean water in NO. And she made the point that NO is a city with a very large non white population and implied that, had it been a rich exclusively white city, the government would have got its finger out a lot quicker to ensure that a) it wasn't so bad in the first place and b) noone was left for days without supplies.
That's a fairly big charge to make so I certainly DON'T make it ..I'd like to think that for once, race simply isn't an issue in this situation. Nonetheless, all of the pictures that I have seen of people on the streets, people queuing for food, sleeping in the superbowl, being airlifted to safety have been black people. WOULD it have been the same if NO had been an uppermiddle class white city? I hope so.
Anyway I am not trying to inflame controversy, just to get some opinions.
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