I saw the above headline and couldn't help but remember Brian Williams's comment on The Daily Show after Katrina wondering how fast and how effective the response would have been if that kind of thing happened in New England in a mostly white town. "Where was the 101st Airborne?" he seemed to ask.

Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpWs_l73WU&feature=youtube_gdata_player