Dean: Race Played a Role in Katrina Death

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Howard-Dean-Baptists.html


Race was a factor in the death toll from Hurricane Katrina, Howard Dean told members of the National Baptist Convention of America on Wednesday at the group's annual meeting.

Dean, chairman of the Democratic party, made the comments to the Baptists' Political and Social Justice Commission. The Baptist Convention, with an estimated 3.5 million members, is one of the largest black religious groups in the country.

''We must ... come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a deadly role in who survived and who did not,'' Dean said.

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Ken Mehlman, Dean's counterpart at the Republican National Committee, said he hoped Dean ''will match his rhetoric with his support for reforms that replace bureaucracy and entitlement with hope and opportunity.''
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more power to Dean

stuff a dirty sock in Mehlman's mouth