A couple of weeks ago there was a big to-do concerning some New Orleans residents who went to testify before Congress about the "bombing" of the levvies in New Orleans, and sinister plots to kill blacks. Charges of ethnic cleansing and genocide were even lobbed.
From the following coroner's report, however, it seems that elderly whites are far over-represented amongst the dead of New Orleans thus far:
http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/...
According to this report, 48% of the dead were African American. 41% were Caucasian.
In a city that is over 3/4 black, this is surprising.
I guess my point of posting this is to hopefully dispell just one more myth that surrounds this tragedy. Katrina was a failure for ALL people of New Orleans, not just one particular race.