I know this is legally “hearsay” but dammit, this pissed me off. Click for the story and the link to her blog; courtesy of Boing Boing. Now I’m off to the doc to see if they’ll change my meds. Really.

NPR colleague Farai Chideya has been reporting from areas hit by Katrina — aka the “K-Hole,” in grim shorthand: “Uncle Israel took two elderly couples under his wing. One couple was blind. He shephereded them through the evacuation. They were taken by bus to Baton Rouge, then loaded onto military transport planes at the airport.

They werent told where they were going, but ended up in San Antonio, Texas. They were taken to the coliseum and the American Center, all of the evacuees. My uncle was worried about a repeat of the Convention Center fiasco. And then he noticed something. ‘All of a sudden we don’t see any white people,’ he said. All of the white evacuees had mysteriously disappeared.

He asked a volunteering priest what had happened. The priest told him that local hotels were being paid to take evacuees. The white evacuees were told about the hotels. The black ones, says my uncle, were not.”

(emphasis added by me)