[caryatid]

... because of income differentials blacks disproportionately had reduced private means of evacuation ...

How do you square this with the images of countless ... countless ... unused, flooded automobiles in the Lower 9th Ward?

The fact that people chose not to evacuate ... after a mandatory evacuation order ... is not a matter of reduced private means of evacacuation ... but of free will.

A thousand brand new automobiles per square mile would have done no good at all ... if people had chosen not to use them.

Willful disobedience of a mandatory evacuation order ... and a refusal to accept personal responsibility for one's own safety ... are the culprits here ... not reduced private means of transportation!

[Certainly there are some few exceptions for elderly and/or disabled folks ... but the majority of those died in situ ... so we are talking about mostly able bodied folks who were rescued.]

[CajunConservative]

Except for the disabled and those without *any* transportation we need to start laying the blame where it squarely belongs, the individuals who failed to leave. I lived on the other side of the state and as soon as it got into the Gulf I started making my preparations. It's what you do when you live on the Gulf Coast.

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[brivette]

This is just a matter of failed personal responsibility.

[AlexW]

"Willful disobedience of a mandatory evacuation order"

Of course they would not go.
Welfare check day was to have been on Monday.
With people like this, stupidity is incurable.