If you asked a lot of them, they would probably tell you differently. I'm not defending the looting... find it reprehensible -- I still vividly remember both LA Riots -- but, as long as these people listen to Sharpton, Jackson, Waters, etc... they are going to be oppressed simply because of their oppression is of the making of their own people and they blame the wrong people for their problems. The people in Baghdad KNEW who their REAL oppressor's were, these people do not.
If truth be told,Sharpton,Waters,Jesse and the whole gang of demagogues could vanish from the face of the earth and blacks in a desolated place like New Orleans would catch hell.
The school system is a pathetic joke.Family structure is on VERY shaky ground.The whole "party and have a good time"ethos of the city is particularly destructive for blacks.Everyone wants to get their thrill on and to hell with intellectual and spiritual uplift.
And,flame me if you will,but many whites down there just plain DON'T LIKE blacks.I could tell you many stories of "nigger hating"among the whites I encountered down there from 1970-1977.Blacks have a GOOD reason,stemming from their own experience not to trust many whites.They don't need the good Rev'rd Jesse to tell them that.