Earlier on CNN, one of their talking heads (talking out of his ass if you ask me) was trying to say that the race issue is that finally blacks have had enough of being poor, being out-classes etc in NO and are using this opportunity to show their displeasure.
Sorry but I don't know the guys name, got fed up with his Bush bashing (it's all Bush's fault) and the race crap and changed back to Fox News.
Actually, I think some of the rest of us (including many blacks who are not in the "career black grudge class") have had enough of them. This may actually be a watershed moment, but not in the way the MSM wants. People of all races may finally be disgusted enough to say ENOUGH!!!
BTW, my local New York Times paper (the Gainesville Sun) just started a special weekly for blacks. Typical liberal resegregation. I live in a predominantly black neighborhood, so I receive it (they can't even sell it and have to give it away). Its second issue, published today, had a front page feature article on the lynching of a black person somewhere around here - in 1916.
Almost a hundred years later, and the NYT is still using it to stir up race hatred and fear. That's liberals for you, liberals and their black victims.