Wil Haywood, WaPo staffer writes a piece entited "To me, It Just Seems Like Black People Are Marked."
While hundreds of thousands of people have been dislocated by Hurricane Katrina, the images that have filled the television screens have been mainly of black Americans -- grieving, suffering, in some cases looting and desperately trying to leave New Orleans. Along with the intimate tales of family drama and survival being played out Thursday, there was no escaping that race had become a subtext to the unfolding drama of the hurricane's aftermath.
"To me," said Bernadette Washington, "it just seems like black people are marked. We have so many troubles and problems.
Our hearts go out to all those innocent victims of Katrina--white Americans, black Americans, and foreigner tourists-- who were unable to flee the Big Easy. It is undeniable that whites and blacks of middle class means already fled the city in their vehicles. Those left behind were there because they lacked green (i.e., money) not because they were black. 
Wil Haywood is wrong on one point: class is the subtext to this drama, not race. Race is the subtext of the explosion of criminality in New Orleans. The media footage resembles coverage of war-torn African basketcases, not an American city. Some of the liberal-left journalists are already getting nervous that people might draw the 'wrong conclusions' and associate the hellish anarchy in New Orleans with the black people committing crimes.
Black people are marked? It's no longer possible to silence critics of the Diversity Agenda when the evidence is staring us in the face: Gangs of armed black youths are roaming the streets of Nola and are using the cessation of the rule of law as an opportunity to rape, loot, and fire upon agents of the state (ie., police & medical workers).
It is no longer possible to ignore the plight of the growing white underclass in the United States, many of whom are now unprotected targets in the midst of New Orleans zone of tribal warfare. The Government quietly released stats that show that whites are the only ethnic group in the US that has seen an increase in its poverty rate:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. poverty rate rose in 2004, driven by an increase in the number of poor non-Hispanic whites, while the median income for Americans as a whole remained stable, the government said on Tuesday. The poverty rate rose for only one group -- non-Hispanic whites -- which had an 8.6 percent poverty rate for 2004 compared with 8.2 percent in 2003. The poverty rate declined for Asians and remained unchanged for blacks and Hispanics, the report showed.
Meanwhile, it looks like anyone who is white is actually marked. This just in from The Australian, a national daily:
AUSTRALIANS trapped in flood-ravaged New Orleans are in fear of their lives as the city descends into lawlessness.
Tourists stranded in the US Gulf Coast city and sheltering in its huge Superdome sports stadium in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have told of shootings, rapes and looting, and are growing increasingly concerned for their safety.More than 50 Australians are believed to be trapped in New Orleans and surrounding areas.
Brisbane man Peter McNeil said his 22-year-old son John was stranded in New Orleans but had now moved with other foreigners out of the Superdome for their own protection.
Violence and racist behaviour had forced the group, including about 10 Australians, to take refuge in a hotel lobby after seeing people raped and murdered, he said.
Tim and Joanne Miller, from Rockhampton in Queensland, have also made contact with their family in Australia. They said they were too scared to move.
"The violence there is escalating. There are shootings – they've now got three dead bodies at the bottom of the stairwell where they are," their daughter Kelly-Rae Smith told ABC radio.
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