Stop this at once.
The overwhelming face of the poor and bereft in New Orleans is black.
You have not polled the survivors to discover their political leanings, if any. The only possible identifying marker you have to brand them with is their race.
If the majority of the thousands and thousands of people huddled in the ruins of a great city were behaving in a lawless way, we would be witnessing massive riots. We are not. We are witnessing anger and tears teetering on the verge of despair. Tell me you would do better.
Stop referring to your fellow human beings, in a situation that you have not had to face, who have lost everything, as "savages" and "apes".