With every accusation they hope to cover up the fact that it was a Majority Black City, with a Black Police Chief and A Black Mayor and a Black City council.
Furthermore is was a Democratic city in a Democratic state.
Now this shouldn't matter, until The Black Caucus makes it matter. They are scared to death that it will become apparent that Blacks can't govern, and Democrats are the last bunch you want in control in an emergency.
The plan all along was to abandon the poor blacks, and the Mayor said as much in July as posted here on FR.
If the Black Caucus would just shut up about it, this would go away, but if they insist on making a stink then the stink is going to come home to roost.
Two years ago, it was a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Houston's Sheila Jackson Lee, who accused NOAA of racism because it didn't give hurricanes "black" names like Jamal and Keisha. These people are never satisfied, are they?