Katrina Death Stats Contradict Racial Complaints

Despite the acclamations of rap artists like Kayane West who argued that “Bush doesn’t care about black people” and that, according to testimony by witnesses of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina that high-numbers of blacks died because of federal incompetence, it turns out that forty-one percent of the dead collected are white, a remarkable statistic considering that white residents make up only twenty-eight percent of New Orlean’s population.