Black Lives vs. White Property - Guess Who Wins

New Orleans is in critical condition. Thousands of her citizens are dead and dying.

While crazy Bush and officials down the line caution patience, two hundred thousand New Orleansers are missing and dying. The rule of three does not go away. You can survive about three minutes without air, three days without water and three weeks without food.

Electricity and water turned off about 7 am Monday. It is 9 am Thursday.

Many people went up into their attics as the water rose on Monday, some with axes most without. Those stuck in their attics with no way to break through have been without water for almost three days in 100 degree heat. They're the lucky ones. They have a chance. Many went to the attic only to realize the water came with them.

Officials report about 80% of the population of New Orleans evacuated the city. 20% are still there. With a population of 1.3 million that means 250,000 people are still in the city.

The Superdome and other shelters have accounted for about 60,000 of these people. The rest are still out there. That's 190,000 people unaccounted for.

190,000 people - where are they?

It's reported the mayor has directed his police department to stop the search and rescue effort for these citizen's lives and concentrate instead, on protecting property. In effect saying, property is more important than people's lives.

This callousness is white supremacy in its most virulent form. The dying are mostly poor Black and the property belongs to mostly rich whites.

Right now every person and organization of good conscience should be protesting this horrific decision.

With thousands of people in danger of dying, every effort should be directed at saving as many as possible. Police must protect against loss of life whether by thugs or nature. Loss of property must be a distant second or third priority. Especially since the city has already lost 80% of its property from the twin disaster.

The callousness of white supremacy was exhibited from the beginning of this tragedy. Before Katrina hit New Orleans the mayor ordered an evacuation of the city. A category 5 hurricane was headed towards the city and rightfully so, officials were concerned the city would be severely damaged by wind, rain and possible flooding.

As stated, 80% of the population left. The poorest and the Blackest had nowhere to go and no way to get there. They were left to fend for themselves.

Mayor Ray Nagin left his people to survive the best way they could. Neither he nor FEMA nor the state of Louisiana nor crazy Bush did anything to get these people to safety. They left them to die.

Their advice to these 250,000 people was to go to the Superdome, which, in the best of times, holds 70,000 people. 

Now with people hanging on to their and their children's lives by bare threads, crazy Bush et al say, 'we're coming.'

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