Apparently wall st. journal had a picture of one of the NOLA power Elite lounding on his high and dry driveway, next to his hired security guard. Meanwhile president bush says that the hurricane was equal opportunity, didn’t discriminate. He also seems to think that his response is fair since black people waiting on their roofs for five days in the flooded lower ninth ward had an equal opportunity to be picked up by helicopters. Unless Katrina forces us to see the structural discrimination, the passive discrimination as Sen. Obama says, then we will not make real progress toward an equal opportunity future.


Katrina Pushes Issues of Race and Poverty at Bush: "'What we've been trying to do is what we believe will help us close the gap we see in America in terms of education, health care, home ownership and wealth,' said Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee. 'We have policies that will actually achieve those goals.'"