That whole disaster was…."a disaster".
Ray Nagin was a totally incompetent Mayor of New Orleans at the time. How could you not evacuate the poor and underprivileged residents knowing this monster was coming. And he's black to boot!
Kathleen Blanco was a pathetic governor before Katrina. A state has to ask for federal help and she just sat there with her thumb up her arse.
George Bush was slow to respond because there was no oil reserves at stake...lol ;D He was too busy defending two costly and futile wars in the middle east!
William Jefferson was more worried about the bribe money in his freezer than he was his constituents.
My point being if you look at this at any level of government you'll see how little they care about basic human rights, regardless of the letter by their name. So to have a punk like Kanye West make a statement like that was frustrating.
I wonder how many "underprivileged" people he has personally helped?