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CBS News | Race An Issue In Katrina Response | September 3, 2005

Favorite quotes:

CBS Radio News reports that New Orleans City Councilman Oliver Thomas said people are too afraid of black people to go in and save them. He added that rumors of shootings and riots are making people afraid to take in people who are being portrayed as thugs and thieves.

Condoleezza Rice: “That Americans would somehow in a color-affected way decide who to help and who not to help, I, I just don’t believe it,” she said. “The African-American community has obviously been very heavily affected. But people are doing what they can for Americans. Nobody wants to see any American suffer.”

Rev. Jesse Jackson: “We have an amazing tolerance for black pain,” he told CNN on Friday. He questioned why the U.S. military couldn’t house many of the homeless on unused military airbases, adding that more people will die of starvation and dehydration than from drowning.

Indeed.