Holy misleading headlines, Batman.
Originally Posted by the original article
But 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 really don't know what these numbers show except that more black people were killed than white people. I'm pretty sure that can be reasonably expected after a natural disaster in an area where more black people live than white people. That doesn't tell us anything about the motivations or the failures of the people who should have responded more quickly in the aftermath.
For what its worth, I don't think it was racism that prevented Michael Brown and President Bush from acting so much as ineptitude.