Whites Victimized by Katrina at Highest Rate

fficial Louisiana death statistics show that whites died at a higher rate from Hurricane Katrina than did blacks.

Despite complaints from movie stars, rap performers, left-wingers, politicians, corporate journalists, and assorted minority activists that blacks were disproportionately victimized by insufficient government relief efforts because of the color of their skin, statistics released by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals tell a much different story.

It turns out that whites died at a higher rate than any minority group.

Nathan Burchfiel of CNSNews.com reported last month that although Census 2000 figures show that whites in New Orleans were 28 percent of the population, they accounted for 36.6 percent of the deaths from Hurricane Katrina. While blacks made up 67 percent of the city's population, blacks accounted for only 59 percent of the Katrina-related deaths.

"Other minorities constitute approximately 5 percent of the population and represented 4.3 percent of the storm's fatalities," Burchfiel reported.

According to the data, the majority of Katrina's victims lived in Orleans parish.

Rap artist Kanye West had appeared on a live NBC telethon to raise money for hurricane victims, charging that "George Bush doesn't care about black people." Louis Farrakhan, leader fo the racist Nation of Islam claimed that the federal government "ignored us, they forgot about us ... because we look like we look."

On Capitol Hill black survivors of Katrina were given a congressional hearing in December to use as a national platform to smear rescue and relief workers as racists.

"They died from abject neglect," said self-described "community activist" Leah Hodges, describing black victims.

"No one is going to tell me it wasn't a race issue," charged another witness at the hearing, Patricia Thompson.

The hearing was held by a special House committee chaired by Rep. Tom Davis, R-VA., and requested by left-wing black Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-GA, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.