if you scratch a little at the u.s. you will find. . .

From The Guardian

"A Louisiana police chief has admitted that he ordered his officers to block a bridge over the Mississippi river and force escaping evacuees back into the chaos and danger of New Orleans. Witnesses said the officers fired their guns above the heads of the terrified people to drive them back and "protect" their own suburbs."

This American Life about the disaster after the hurricane was wrenching. A woman evacuated from the local hospital to the convention center describes her sincere belief as the days dragged on that the authorities were planning on killing them. She describes water trucks passing the mobs of people by and gives a grateful description of "looters" who brought food, protected the very young and old. In the second act you hear how one white family was able to cross the bridge -- and how they brought four people-of-color with them by pretending they were relatives. The woman describes feeling outraged that others were left behind and ecstatic for surviving, like she had "won the lottery."

The skin lottery, hadn't you heard? It's the oldest, most long standing game in the U.S. Didn't get your ticket? Don't worry, everybody is automatically entered.