Feedback | 17 September 2005

Comments on The grim lessons of Katrina by Walter Ellis

What a ridiculous negative article. We get hit by a level 5 hurricane. What do you know? There’s death and destruction. Mr Ellis notes the fact that there is a black underclass in New Orleans, which has been there for 200 years, and in other major American cities as well, which have been there for 150 years. If this is a measure of our inherent racialism what does he say about the growing black middle and upper class, the phenomenon of the browning of American society, the tremendous influx of Hispanics and Asians, all attracted by the relative political and economic and social freedom which exists in this country more than any other major country in the world, including his beloved Europe.

Our economy has taken more hits than a side show shooting gallery but it keeps chugging along with, yes, 5% unemployment which Mr Ellis seems to make out to be something negative.