Do you have to turn it into a racial thing? Most of the reporters don't know how to get out of the city to cover the countryside where most of the damage is - and the country people are too busy doing what needs to be done (and probably also don't have power or phones) to squall about it.
I am afraid that other parts of Louisiana and also Mississippi and Alabama will be neglected by the disaster relief organizations simply because about all we could hear about or see on television was New Orleans. We put some things on a truck last weekend that was going to a church campground where 2,000 evacuees were staying in Mississippi. I guess FEMA, Red Cross, Samaritan's Purse and Salvation Army are in all the places, though.
Bingo!
Rita was a white hurricane, of no use to the MSM against W.