Katrina's Vanishing Victims

Who cares?

They are all poor and powerless, right, Rethugs, MSM?

This will come back to bite every last one of you in the ass, like a big Great White Shark.

Katrina's Vanishing Victims:

It happened on the afternoon of September 1, three days after Hurricane Katrina pushed a wall of water onto the city of New Orleans. CNN had been airing just-received videos of tens of thousands of people trapped at the Superdome and the New Orleans Convention Center, without food or supplies-scenes of elderly residents left to die by the roadside, of children chanting, 'We want help!' Anchor Wolf Blitzer turned to CNN commentator Jack Cafferty to ask how it could be that, with all the advance warnings of disaster bearing down on the city, so many people had still been left in harm's way.

Cafferty's reply was, to say the least, unexpected, especially coming from a man who'd once insisted (3/31/04) that the word 'liberal' was synonymous with 'communist.' 'There is a great big elephant in the living room that the media seems content to ignore,' Cafferty told Blitzer:


Slate.com's Jack Shafer wrote today in his column that television coverage has shied away from talking about race and class. . . . Almost every person we've seen, from the families stranded on their rooftops waiting to be rescued, to the looters, to the people holed up in the Superdome, are black and poor. Many of them didn't follow the evacuation orders because they didn't have the means to get out of town. They just couldn't do it. A lot of them are sick. A lot of them don't have cars. A lot of them just didn't have the means to leave the Big Easy. And they're still there.