I have seen many commentators talk about how the majorityof the people who are stuck in New Orleans African American and thats the ONLY reason that our gov't has not made better efforts to help them, quicker that is. However, albeit that yes its obvious the people who got stuck were the poor and disadvantaged in that city, and yes, that majority happens to be African American, but I am poor (we live on $11.00 hourly for four people, plus our adult daughter is temporarily with us with her 5 month old son) and we do not have a car and we are white. So if we had been living in New Orleans we too would have been among those people with a baby and two children. It seems whenever I hear talk of being poor and disadvanteged the groups who get the most help are those of non-white groups, in my area thats the illegal alien Mexicans. But by the media and those leaders in the African American community playing the race card, they are pitting American against American and dividing us, in a time when we need to be united to help each other all we can. People, don't let this happen, we all care about each other, it does not matter about race, citizens caring about fellow citizens. If we lived closer (we live in Oregon) we would gladly try to do what was possible to help (take some in) even in our crowded strapped conditions.