The Dying, Elderly, Babies Behind Hyatt Guests in New Orleans Bus Lines

Here's one for the I-Could-Never-Have-Imagined-in-America books.....

Guess who were the very first people bused out of the smoldering, diseased ruins of New Orleans? The desperately sick and dying? Babies and children? Those in dire need of medicine and medical care? The elderly and most vulnerable?

Nope.

According to Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, "700 guests and employees of the Hyatt Hotel were bused out first."

Sounds strongly reminiscent of segregated bussing practices in the Deep South before civil rights legislation in the 1960s....

Don't miss Maureen Dowd's shocking, insightful column today, The United States of Shame.