Hurricane Katrina and Slavery

Discussion in 'History' started by J.B, Nov 21, 2005.

  1. Harold Godwinson Registered Member

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    The popular perception that African-Americans living in New Orleans were disproportionately victimized by the government's Hurricane Katrina rescue effort, or lack there of, turns out to be true - at least according to preliminary death statistics released by the state of Louisiana.- but opposite from what Black nationalists such as Jesse Jackson have led us to believe...

    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. Fewer than half of the victims of Hurricane Katrina were Black(despite the fact that they make up more than 2/3 of the city), and that Whites died at the highest rate of all races in New Orleans(despite the fact that they make up less than a third of the city). 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.

    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.

    Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in October said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency wasn't fit to help the storm's victims because "there are not enough blacks high up in FEMA" and added that, "certainly the Red Cross is the same."
    Hispanic.

    To view the statistics on Katrina dead released by the state of Louisiana, go to: http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/office...D Victims released_11-14-2005_publication.pdf
     
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  3. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Those are interesting statistics, but death rate alone is not a full measure of victimization.
     
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  5. J.B Banned Banned

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    Ya, we all know how well blacks can take care of one another.

    Just look at Africa
     
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    Joke
     

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