Katrina Facts. Not Racism
Here are a few factual statistics that shed light on the lies told to the congressional committe:
Hat tip to Newsmax, which notes:
...preliminary figures compiled by the morgue in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, which is the primary facility handling the bodies of Katrina deceased, show that a majority of the dead in New Orleans and surrounding parishes were actually not black.
Of the 883 bodies processed so far by medical examiners at St. Gabriel, 562 have been identified by race. Slightly less than half that number - 48 percent - are African-American.
Forty-one percent are white, 8 percent unknown and 2 percent Hispanic.
The remarkable numbers, which undermine claims that Katrina rescue efforts were somehow infused by racism, have been completely ignored by the national media, with only the Lousiana-based news web site, The Bayou Buzz, devoting any coverage at all to the story.
The surprisingly low death rate for black Katrina victims comes despite the fact that New Orleans itself was more than two-thirds black [67 percent] when the storm hit. White residents made up less than a third [28 percent] of the city's population, according to U.S. Census bureau numbers.
DEATHS % BY RACE NUMBER %
UNKNOWN 48 8%
AFRICAN AMERICAN 267 48%
ASIAN PACIFIC 0 0
CAUCASION 230 41%
HISPANIC 13 2%
NATIVE AMERICAN 3 1%
OTHER 1 0
Wow it sure was a genocidal attempt on Blacks living in the New Orleans area.
“We were abandoned. City officials did nothing to protect us,” Patricia Thompson, a New Orleans evacuee said.
“We saw buses, helicopters and FEMA trucks, but no one stopped to help us. We never felt so cut off in all our lives. "No one is going to tell me it wasn't a race issue," she told Congress.
Community activist Leah Hodges said, with tears in her eyes, that Black residents “died from neglect.”
At times during the hearing, the survivors even compared themselves to victims of genocide and the Holocaust.
There are the statments made by the poor racial victems of Katrina made to Congress, and there are the official states up to date of processed dead ( not a polite way to say it but accurate) It looks to me like there were a lot of victems that were not black. But then agaian when you listan to these people (not being a racial, I am refering to these activists), the whole world has been against them.
When will these poor proffesional victems stop their lieing and when will the MSM tell the whole truth?
Hat tip to Newsmax, which notes:
...preliminary figures compiled by the morgue in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, which is the primary facility handling the bodies of Katrina deceased, show that a majority of the dead in New Orleans and surrounding parishes were actually not black.
Of the 883 bodies processed so far by medical examiners at St. Gabriel, 562 have been identified by race. Slightly less than half that number - 48 percent - are African-American.
Forty-one percent are white, 8 percent unknown and 2 percent Hispanic.
The remarkable numbers, which undermine claims that Katrina rescue efforts were somehow infused by racism, have been completely ignored by the national media, with only the Lousiana-based news web site, The Bayou Buzz, devoting any coverage at all to the story.
The surprisingly low death rate for black Katrina victims comes despite the fact that New Orleans itself was more than two-thirds black [67 percent] when the storm hit. White residents made up less than a third [28 percent] of the city's population, according to U.S. Census bureau numbers.
DEATHS % BY RACE NUMBER %
UNKNOWN 48 8%
AFRICAN AMERICAN 267 48%
ASIAN PACIFIC 0 0
CAUCASION 230 41%
HISPANIC 13 2%
NATIVE AMERICAN 3 1%
OTHER 1 0
Wow it sure was a genocidal attempt on Blacks living in the New Orleans area.
“We were abandoned. City officials did nothing to protect us,” Patricia Thompson, a New Orleans evacuee said.
“We saw buses, helicopters and FEMA trucks, but no one stopped to help us. We never felt so cut off in all our lives. "No one is going to tell me it wasn't a race issue," she told Congress.
Community activist Leah Hodges said, with tears in her eyes, that Black residents “died from neglect.”
At times during the hearing, the survivors even compared themselves to victims of genocide and the Holocaust.
There are the statments made by the poor racial victems of Katrina made to Congress, and there are the official states up to date of processed dead ( not a polite way to say it but accurate) It looks to me like there were a lot of victems that were not black. But then agaian when you listan to these people (not being a racial, I am refering to these activists), the whole world has been against them.
When will these poor proffesional victems stop their lieing and when will the MSM tell the whole truth?
Chris,
Thankyou for replying and reading my blog. I like the fact you link examples for your argument. Thankyou. However i think you failed to see my point. Admitedly sometimes I do not make myself clear. What I was saying is that despite the claims it was genocide the evidance shows it was not a government conspirocy to kill African Americans. Katrina hit Mississippi harder then New Orleans, and that there was alot of non leadership on local and state authorities side before FEMA ever got involved.
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