Bob Lewis, Associated Press [1], writes of Barack Obama trying to play the race card:
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) said Tuesday that the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a “quiet riot” among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago.
The first-term Illinois senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building explosively as they did before the 1992 riots.
Sean Hackbarth, American Mind [2], hacks Obama’s arguement to shreds:
Outside the tourist haven New Orleans wasn’t so hot before Hurricane Katrina hit. Post-Katrina black-on-black violence got so bad the National Guard was called in to keep order. Mayor Ray Nagen, the incompetent one who blamed everyone else for his city’s problems, earned re-election.
As Sean said, Crying Ray Nagin’s New Orlean was no prize before Katrina.