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Published Thursday, September 01, 2005 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

RACE, CLASS AND HURRICANE KATRINA: One blogger's notation of two competing cutlines in the post-Katrina world of N'Awlins (where the black kid is looting while the white kids are merely finding their groceries) gets taken the next step by Slate's Jack Shafer, who asks the obvious question -- why aren't more journalists talking about the fact that it's the poor black folk of the South who got screwed by the hurricane?

Related: The New Orleans Times-Picayune predicted as much with a five-part series in 2002. U.S. News & World Report also had a handle on the problem in July.