Re: Fred Thompson's Questionable Taste in "Friends"

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:18:27 GMT, "       bozak"
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>my puppet says what? 

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200512\NAT20051214b.html

Statistics Suggest Race Not a Factor in Katrina Deaths
By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Correspondent
December 14, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - Statistics released by the Louisiana Department of
Health and Hospitals suggest that fewer than half of the victims of
Hurricane Katrina were black, and that whites died at the highest rate
of all races in New Orleans.

Liberals in the aftermath of the storm were quick to allege that the
Bush administration delayed its response to the catastrophe because
most of the victims were black.

Damu Smith, founder of the National Black Environmental Justice
Network, in September said that the federal government "ignored us,
they forgot about us ... because we look like we look." 

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." 

Rapper Kanye West used his time on NBC's telethon for the hurricane
victims to charge that, "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

But the state's demographic information suggests that whites in New
Orleans died at a higher rate than minorities. According to the 2000
census, 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.

African-Americans make up 67.25 percent of the population and 59.1
percent of the deceased. Other minorities constitute approximately 5
percent of the population and represented 4.3 percent of the storm's
fatalities.

Overall for the state, 658 bodies have been identified. Forty-seven
percent were African-American and 42 percent were Caucasian. The
remaining bodies were either non-black minorities or undetermined.

An additional 247 victims have not been identified, so their
demographic information has not been released. 

The data showed that the majority of Katrina's victims lived in the
Orleans parish. The nearby St. Bernard and Jefferson parishes had 91
and 25 victims, respectively. 

The storm also did not discriminate based on gender. Fifty percent of
the victims were male and 49 percent were female, with 1 percent being
undetermined.

Calls requesting comment from Damu Smith and the Nation of Islam were
not returned Wednesday.