Posted by
Rogue Historian on Monday, August 28, 2006 9:39:10 PM
1600 ppl "still finding bodies" "the worst natural disaster in American history" "like other people who couldn't get out of New Orleans"
Brian Williams claimed that he used to believe that all people- he used the example of his own children vis-a-vis two black children in NO- were equal. Katrina convinced him that he was mistaken.
So Katrina, which he calls the "worst natural disaster in American history," may be reduced to race. Mr. Williams is at great pains to point out his own alacrity at arriving at the scene. He knew how serious Katrina would be. He arrived- not to be first on the scene, not to get ratings or justify his salary and fame- but as an angel intent on delivering the poor masses from their misery. While average citizens were falling around him from dehydration, Williams's network delivered much needed supplies....to him. His inference: If we could do it why couldn't they?