I find a lot of the photos coming out of the disaster area disturbing. Like the photo on today's front page of the New York Times, showing a body floating face down. Or this photo on the Los Angeles Times Web site, which makes MSNBC.com's precaution with a certain photo...

I've wondered why the images coming out of Hurricane Katrina seem to be dominated by black people -- stranded on the highway, lingering at the Superdome, being rescued from the water and rooftops. The images that I can recall of white, non-elderly people show them retrieving possessions from flooded homes,...