THE RACE QUESTION!!!

[KevinTheOmnivore]

And again, Colin Powell's take on it. Clearly, these two voices don't carry the weight that say Kanye West does, but it's worth noting:

"When you look at those who weren't able to get out, it should have been a blinding flash of the obvious to everybody that when you order a mandatory evacuation, you can't expect everybody to evacuate on their own. These are people who don't have credit cards; only one in 10 families at that economic level in New Orleans have a car. So it wasn't a racial thing — but poverty disproportionately affects African-Americans in this country. And it happened because they were poor."