Dems are trying to use this whole thing to make repubs look like they are indifferent to the plight of poor blacks.
The repubs have been making inroads into black voting percentages. The dems hope to use this ploy to blunt those inroads.
Poor, uneducated blacks may be an easy group to sway.
The repubs should keep hammering the mayor and governor for their response which was woefully inept.
Dems, ever the losers, don't realize that their hysterical race-baiting is turning off many white voters. They already have the black vote, and the results will more white voters who will be Republicans by the time this disaster subsides. I say, let them keep it up.