Reuters:
...The ignorance and racism of that last sentence is stunning. "They" did not flood anyone, the storm caused the flood and the flood did not care what color you were. There are a lot of people of all races helping victims of the flood no matter what color they are. While there may be a lot of black folks who are being rescued and housed in the Astrodome, there are also a lot of black folks who got out of town when the madatory evacuation was ordered. Those who did not do what they were ordered to do were generally the low functioning and the disabled and ill. Efforts and great expense has been incurred to care for these people and will continue despite such ignorance and ingratitude by a few. With that kind of attitude it is easy to see why Oates has not been more successful.
Hill, 23, lost his home in the floods that followed Hurricane Katrina, and with reconstruction expected to take months, many said they were permanently leaving a city that was their family home for generations.
A worker in a New Orleans coffee plant, Hill wants to go back to school and find a job as an electrician in either Atlanta or Houston.
Jeffery Joseph, a 49-year-old truck driver, echoed Hill's comments. "What am I going back to? My house is gone. I lost everything," he said. "I'm planning on staying here."
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Couples also debated their plans for the future. Lesley Johnson, 21, who worked in a fast food restaurant, said she would relocate to Beaumont, Texas, near the Louisiana border. Keith Oates, with whom she has a daughter, said he was not sure what to do.
Both shared a suspicion however that authorities had focused on saving expensive white homes and neglected predominantly black neighborhoods.
"This is the cause why there are all these black folks here," Oates said at the Astrodome, where the refugees were overwhelmingly black. "They flooded us out for one reason only, to save the white folks."
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