Anti-Racism Kills Blacks?

Is that one lesson from Hurricane Katrina?

Yet more of that Steve Sailer good stuff.

Here is a quick summary of the article:

The French nature of New Orleans culture, combined with cultural tendencies associated with African-Americans, who are not only the most populous group in New Orleans but who run it as well (i.e. the city officials are mostly black), led them to be unprepared for the hurricane. Because this unpreparedness was totally predictable (because these cultural tendencies are well-known, even by people who deny them), people at higher levels of government (e.g. the governor of Louisiana and Bush) should have anticipated these problems and stepped in with plans to deal with the hurricane and its aftermath much sooner. The reason they didn't was due to the fact that such an attempt to co-opt the local government (i.e. the New Orleans government) would be seen as racist.

My thoughts:

This appears to me to be relevant in the discussion as to how much autonomy Congress ought to give to Washington, D.C. I recall someone (I'm not certain who) saying that having a lot of D.C. policy determined by Congress was racist because it implied that the (mostly black) residents of D.C. couldn't govern themselves.

Why anyone would think that the residents of D.C. couldn't governm themselves is beyond me. It's not as if they elected a mayor who had previously been thrown out of office for using cocaine WHILE IN OFFICE. Oh, wait.

So were hundreds, likely thousands, of black people condemned to death because no one wanted to admit that, you know, New Orleans is not a city that is likely to prepare well for a crisis on its own, for fear of being branded racist?

That is all.