US President George W Bush said that the nadir of his presidency was 'being called a racist' in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
US President George W Bush said that the nadir of his presidency was 'being called a racist' in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
'I think being called a racist because of Katrina was a low point,' Bush said in an interview with CNN's Larry King.
In the days immediately following the disaster, Bush came under fire for what many characterised as a slow federal response to aiding victims, especially in the heavily African-American, Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans. During a live hurricane relief fundraiser on network television, entertainer Kanye West said 'George Bush doesn't care about black people.'
The president said he remembers u0093people saying George Bush is a racist because of the response".
'In fact, the truth of the matter is the response was pretty darn quick,' Bush said, 'if you think about the fact that the Coast Guard and a lot of brave kids were pulling 30,000 people off of roofs as soon as the storm passed, as soon as they found people on those roofs.'
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