Good Old Racism Disguised as News: Racist Headline too. USA TODAY

[SammyBlue]

Census outlines face of today's New Orleans

By Anne Rochell Konigsmark
USA TODAY
Wed Jun 7, 7:08 AM ET

Hurricane Katrina drained the New Orleans metropolitan area of almost 40% of its residents and left the region with a whiter, wealthier and older population, according to the first Census Bureau estimates since the devastating flooding.

The special survey released today shows the New Orleans area, made up of seven parishes, became 73% white in the months after the hurricane Aug. 29, up from about 59% before the storm. The black population dropped from about 37% to 22%. The median age increased by about four years, and the median annual income rose from $39,793 to $43,447.

"This confirms what some people thought: There was a selective out-migration of poorer minorities," says William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution.

The survey provides only estimates and is not official. It looked at counties and parishes in four states affected most by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060607/ts_usatoday/censusoutlinesfaceoftodaysneworleans

Good ridance to you uppity negros. Who needs you? BTW, think now there are more white people, NOLA will get more of the Chimp's attention?

After all, you uppity negros have it better living in the Astrodome. The Beautiful Mind, Barbara Bush, the Silver Douchebag, told me so!

Also, the Racist Headline belongs to Yahoo! Implying white means wealthy, black means poor!
:sarcasm:

[MadHound]

1. Sorry, but I don't see what you're talking about

I don't see the headline as racist, nor the article itself. In fact the article indeed touched on one of the problems that the African American community of NO has pointed out time and again: "his confirms what some people thought: There was a selective out-migration of poorer minorities," says William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution."

I think you are overreacting a bit:shrug:

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Perhaps the 'sarcasm' tag applies to the whole post?

In which cases he's just impersonating someone who sees racism everywhere.

[Yollam]

2. I don't see it as a racist story.

I see it as a story that highlights racism in the aftermath of Katrina, It shows what we already know - the rich, insured to the hilt, can bounce back from disasters in no time, but the poor and people of color can drop dead as far as the government cares.

And stats bear out the fact that New Orleans is a very poor city, and most of its poorest residents are black. There's nothing racist about pointing that out. Racism is when a society knows about it and does nothing about it - for decades.

[Exultant Democracy]

3. That is a silly way to look at it.

Historically moving back into a city that has been destroyed due location is stupid. I would think that in this rush to rebuild the people who have the lest probably have the sense to think, "Do I want to spend and enormous amount of time rebuilding, and do I want to spend (or do I have) the enormous amount of money it would take to protect my family from the next hurricane."

Perhaps the 14% of African Americans remember that that didn't rebuild Pompeii. It isn't hard to imagine that these people have become more educated about hurricanes since last year and assume like many environmentalist that global warming will lead to more extreme weather, or maybe they just don't want to get themselves and their families killed this hurricane season.