Kanye West was right!

When asked, a vast majority of African Americans see the failiure of the Federal Government in NOLA as either proof, or at least symptomatic of entrenched racial bias. Just look at how African Americans view the President's handling of the crisis
Red=dissaprove/Blue=approve

VS. How Whites view Bush's handling of the disaster:

The difference is, shall we say, striking.

Here is what I take from this profound difference:

1. The notion of Republicans swaying African Americans to rethink their mass political affiliation is dead. /craven political observation.

2. Republican government is built on the myth of the market and will always fail the struggling in our society because it preaches individual success at the expense of community stability. So long as wealth and race are tied in this country (as they de facto are right now) Blacks will be harmed by Republican rule.

3. Though we have made tremendous gains in civil rights and race relations in the past 100 years, we still live in a world where the color of your skin acts as a prism, fundamentally altering your view of the world around you. Blacks and Whites see the same news events and take away two very different understandings.

4. While Republican people may not be racist, their policies are. Simple fact.

5. The only chance we have to become a decent country where opportunity and hope are limited by the choices you make, not the color you were born with, is to create a government that takes an active and positive role in people's lives. Viewing government as a beast to be starved leads directly to the fractured nation we live in now.

6. Everybody has a stake in this fight. Until we go out and tell people that, and ask them to help shoulder the burden of making this a better country, we will falter and we will stagnate.

Source:
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollTrack.aspx?g=df863ce4-eead-
4c81-9cfd-875a1bdb8547&x=2054,1

Sorry the images are blurry, I'm just learning how to do it.

[Disclaimer- as if you couldn't tell from my picture, I am a white male originally from the mid-Atlantic region. Aside from a distant Judaism, I have no claim to any minority staus.]