Katrina, CBS Race Show

Mary Loretta Landrieu Dem.of La.told a C-Span audience that almost 400 million dollars were ripped off from one of the Louisiana parishes by out of state contractors who price gouged the citizens of the state, yet when AOL news reported graft in La. they showed a photo of a black hand holding a credit card, reminiscent of Sen. Eastland using a black hand to condemn affirmative action…The White House’s response to Spike Lee’s devastating indictment of the Bush administration’s,”When The Levees Failed,” was to invite a Republican Rockey Vaccarella to pose for a Rove-op . Rockey told the President that he’d done a good job in New Orleans and requested that he serve four more years. So gushing was Rockey that Bush seemed embarrassed. Taking their lead from the I Man’s sidekick who has been assigned to do “nigger jokes,” the media still blame the flood on Mayor Nagin. Yet Christopher Cooper and Robert Block’s Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security blame the government for the Katrina catastrophe...Survivor TV Realty Show Will Pit Races Against Each Other. Some fear that the CBS (Caucasian Broadcasting System) show might show some races to be inferior to others. Hasn’t that been the way blacks have been covered by the media since the 1880s? The only difference is that they’re making a game out of it. I guess the ratings they expected from Judge O.J.com didn’t materialize. Manumit