Katrina Coverage

This Sep 7 Democracy Now! transcript might shed some light on New Orleans' problems, and not in the way that Amy Goodman would expect. The least questionable item is her still - almost a week after it being discredited - repeating the "looting vs. finding" canard.
More importantly, her interview with Curtis Muhammad includes this:
...By the time we got to Houston, we had learned a little lesson. We learned if we took our already white volunteer as our leader to the shelters, we could enter without any problem, without any red tape. We were allowed to enter. So, we are convinced that the racism about the New Orleans black population, the black poor population, is so tremendous and so negligent and we don't know the reasons. And maybe so all black people. Maybe that's just - we just have this tremendous universal hatred for dark skin. I don't know what it is. But we watched blatant racism, blatant racism.
We watched our government, whether it's local, state or national, and I would rather say state or national because the local government has no National Guard. It has no helicopters. It has no big boats. It doesn't have the wherewithal to have moved 150,000 people trapped in New Orleans underwater. The state and the feds are the culprits, and though they have not joined the International Court, there must be a people's court somewhere that can charge wrongful death, that can charge murder. Because that's what we have witnessed.