Is another Katrina Myth Falling?
I can't vouch for the accuracy of this information from the web source cnsnews , but it seems to me that most of the initial information about New Orleans and Katrina reported by the MSM was wrong.
"...the state's demographic information suggests that whites in New Orleans died at a higher rate than minorities. According to the 2000 census, whites make up 28 percent of the city's population, but the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals indicates that whites constitute 36.6 percent of the storm's fatalities in the city.
African-Americans make up 67.25 percent of the population and 59.1 percent of the deceased. Other minorities constitute approximately 5 percent of the population and represented 4.3 percent of the storm's fatalities.
Overall for the state, 658 bodies have been identified. Forty-seven percent were African-American and 42 percent were Caucasian. The remaining bodies were either non-black minorities or undetermined."
I guess Jesse and Kanye West won't trumpet this news, if true.
posted by RBM @ 11:23 AM
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How the hell can there be a conservative in NJ. We in the south can't stand the North, we call ya'll Yankees. To think that one of ya'll Yankees agrees with us is just astounding. The Katrina myth is correct. President Bush ordered evacuations but the mayor of New Orleans sent people to the conference center and the Superdome. He also never used the school buses to evacuate those who needed help, like the Republican led local committe had requested years before the incident. They politicized this to weaken the Republican led government... it was in bad taste.
The fact that you are just coming across this news now is indicative of my (and others') contention that MSM has been reluctant to correct these myths and half-truths. I began posting on this a while back.
You may or may not be aware that the levees themselves were constructed in such a way that their failure was inevitable.
FYI, Here is a listing of all my site's Katrina posts.
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