Next on CNN - Was race a factor?

[kliljedahl]

DUH, you think?

[MichiganVote]

1. Was water a factor? How about wind? Skin color? Economic class?

[hiley]

6. class-ism and racism

There would not be so many deaths since the hurricane ended if our lovely government was not so vile.

[MichiganVote]

8. Agreed. The tragic, toxic, combination

[hiley]

9. ..

so true.

[mattclearing]

2. Time for people in this country to take a long, hard look in the mirror.

Racism never went away, but you wouldn't know it from the coverage of the past 8 years or so.

[hiley]

3. DUH, you think was going to be my response..

glad we agree..

[wli]

4. what they'll never ask: was the 77% vote for Kerry a factor? n/t

[DrDebug]

5. No, they all happened to be black...

Go away there is nothing to see here. It's just an amazing coincidence that 90,000 of them are black and the remaining 10,000 are poor and elderly whites...

[eleny]

7. "Pay me now or pay me later. Inflation makes the price go up"

His last words and I paraphrased slightly. He was so soft spoken but ended with that very powerful message.