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Home Front: Culture Wars
Nagin Suspects a Plot To Keep Blacks Away
2007-03-18
Way to go you incompetent POS - helping race relations everywhere
New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin has suggested that the slow recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina -- which has prevented many black former residents from returning -- is part of a plan to change the racial makeup and political leadership of his and other cities.
deep plots!
"Ladies and gentlemen, what happened in New Orleans could happen anywhere I am," Nagin said at a dinner sponsored by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a trade group for newspapers that target black readers. "They are studying this model of natural disasters, dispersing the community and changing the electoral process in that community."

Nagin's remarks Thursday night recalled the controversy stirred up by his prediction in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech in 2006 that, despite the evacuation of thousands of black people in the wake of Katrina, New Orleans would once again become a "chocolate city." The mayor later apologized for the comment, which had infuriated many whites and African Americans.
this shows how sincere that apology was
Nagin, who won reelection last May over Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, referred obliquely to the "chocolate city" comment at the dinner and suggested that his assertion that New Orleans would once again be a majority-black city had made him a political target.

"Everybody in America started to wake up and say: 'Wait a minute. What the f*&k is he doing? What is he thinking saying? We have to make sure that this man doesn't go any further,' " Nagin told a room full of black newspaper publishers and editors at the Capital Hilton.

Referring to Landrieu, who is white, as "the golden boy," Nagin suggested his chance at reelection in the mayoral race had seemed slim because "they dispersed all of our people across 44 states with one-way tickets."
driving up crime stats in other regions
"They thought they were talking about a different kind of New Orleans," Nagin said. "They didn't realize that folks were awake, that they were paying attention."

Is there a bigger POS? Oh yeah, I forgot Blanco...
Posted by:Frank G

#8  Ray, it's this way.....see....people living below sea level were evacuated to higher ground. Then they looked around and they realized that it makes more sense to live above sea level, so they decided that staying where they are is better than living in a dewatering sump.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-03-18 22:42  

#7  NAGIN himself said that by "choclate" he meant the mixing of black/dark wid white to make "chocolate".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-03-18 22:34  

#6  Nagin, maybe the dispersed do not want to go back to the cesspool. Maybe the dispersed are living places with less drug problems, real schools, decent city services, jobs, less corruption, and decent public officials. It is hard to believe that HIS HONOR, in Chicago, would have been hiding during a storm, or whining afterward.
Posted by: whatadeal   2007-03-18 20:12  

#5  Thirty-one pages? Fred must be lusting after their server!
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-03-18 19:55  

#4  I read the article. Then I read the comments. 31 pages of them. I'd say at least 1/4 of them would have been sinktrapped here at the 'Burg. There are black nuts on there--uncensored--who are openly calling for race war and exterminating whitey now. Who would have ever thought that the PC WaPo would allow outright hate speech? Now I need a shower...
Posted by: Mac   2007-03-18 18:53  

#3  That (Nagin) is the blackest "White Racist" I've ever seen.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-03-18 18:22  

#2  Ummm... from what I've picked up in the local newspaper, a fair number of the Katrina evacuees in SA don't really want to go back, once they found jobs and housing, and fairly OK schools, and mostly competant city government, uncorrupt police forces... and there wasn't all that much racism out there, beyond the NO city limits, either.
I'd guess a lot of the evacuees had their eyes opened in a fairly comprehensive manner.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2007-03-18 16:04  

#1  Er, wasn't dispersing the population the actual disaster plan that New Orleans put together? You remember, the one they scrapped in favor of "do nothing and let the press pull our asses out of the sling"?

Posted by: Rob Crawford   2007-03-18 15:27  

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