++ [ originally posted by Chxta ] ++
Tell that to Bush. I am watching the BBC right now, and aid is getting to Biloxi, Missisippi (white dominated) faster than to New Orleans (black dominated). Even the white BBC correspondent said so. His words: It is appaling.
That is absolutely untrue. Don't believe everything you read and hear (esp on the BBC).
Blacks voted for Bush in the highest percentage ever for a Republican and for his re-election, too.
My father, a pharmacist, too, puts it best:
"When the media report on something I do know about (pharmacy), they're wrong over 50% of the time. Why should I believe that it's any different for matters I don't know about".
Louisiana blacks (and southern blacks in general) vote disproportinately for Bush/Republicans. Why would they risk alienating them?