Kanye West is way off base. During an NBC network fund-raiser Friday to help Hurricane Katrina victims, West, a hip-hop artist, let loose with an incredibly destructive diatribe. Among other crass comments, West said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people." .....West certainly was not the only one to throw down the race card. Some other blacks also accused the federal government of neglecting New Orleans because it has a black majority and rampant poverty. The racial friction is unwarranted and counterproductive. I'm no fan of President George W. Bush, but here's a fact that can't be denied: He was...