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Today, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin blamed racism and government bureaucracy for delaying the city's ability to recover from Hurricane Katrina which occurred a year ago 29 August.
Nagin commented that if this would have happened anywhere else, the response would have been different. According to pre-Katrina statistics, New Orleans' population was 460,000 comprised of 60% black. Currently the city's population is around 250,000 and has been there for sometime. Earlier this year, Nagin called on fellow blacks to return New Orleans to a "chocolate" city. What would happen if someone, say in Metropolis, Illinois (Home of Superman) would say, "help us turn this into a vanilla city!" The ACLU would be showing up with some major Kryptonite.
Unfortunately it seems that people are too quick to play the race card in this day and age as well as becoming more and more sue happy. Nagin, like other Democrats, relish on playing the emotions of the uneducated and uninformed. What happened to the days when people took accountability for their actions and instead of blaming others, tried to do for themselves?