Must-read: Richard Cohen on Bush and race

Cohen gets it right in today's Washington Post (where the opinion pieces are still FREE- screw you, NYT), it's incompetence, not racism. Money quote:

We owe the poor our special consideration. We especially owe the black poor an appreciation of their plight and their dolorous history. But in general it was incompetence, not racism, that slowed the relief effort -- incompetence on the local and state levels, too, and incompetence on the part of black as well as white public officials. The search for racist scapegoats does the poor no good. This relief effort ought to start, above all, with some clear thinking.