You know, everyone has talked about how "racist" the response to Katrina was, but what about hardworking shripers, fishermen, and farmers who lived places like Cameron, Louisiana and lost everything in the blink of an eye? Are they not so important because they either had the sense to get out or knew how to weather this storm? Or maybe because they don't have someone like Ray Nagin grossly overstating the "likely" death toll so he can get more media coverage?

Or maybe the "racism" is that because these people choose to work hard and be self-sufficient and depend upon others in their communities for help rather than seek out the government and television cameras to cry out about how they need this and they need that, that they are not so compelling?

Who knows. It is a silent commentary, however, on the underlying currents that power the dialogue of demagogues who demand that race must be an issue in every human response in society.