Katrina - The Race Card

Many in the media have played the race card, claiming that poor blacks were left to die in New Orleans. What they fail to tell you is that the mayor of New Orlenas, Ray Nagin, is black. It was his call as to when and how to evacuate the city and his alone. Why he failed to us the city's schools buses to evacuate those that had no means to leave, we may never know.

What we do know is the disaster changed some people thoughts on race, some for the better.

HOUSTON - In the last week, Joseph Brant lost his apartment, walked by scores of dead in the streets, traversed pools of toxic water and endured an arduous journey to escape the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in his hometown New Orleans.

On Sunday, he was praising the Lord, saying the ordeal was a test that ended up dispelling his lifelong distrust of white people and setting his life on a new course. He said he hitched a ride Friday in a van driven by a group of white folks.

“Before this whole thing I had a complex about white people; this thing changed me forever,” said Brant, 36, a truck driver who, like many of the refugees receiving public assistance in Houston, Texas, is black.
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