Is Ray Nagin a Racist?

[snappy]

Our real estate prices have skyrocketed as well. Building costs are absolutely downright criminal. We go over to Mobile a good bit these days just to be able to get a decent meal without a limited menu and a line out the door. We have to time it right though, bc if we try to eat after about 6, we can hang it up. The lines are WAY too long.
I just want normal back.

Okay, sorry, back to the topic...

I can relate as well in Baton Rouge. The waiting lists for decent apartments ar so long, they don't even write names down anymore.

Heard this week that our city has the 5th hottest real estate market in the country. I used to think it would be a temporary phenomenon. Lately I am not so sure. Too many missteps and missed opportunities by fed, state and local leaders. I think it will be at least 10 years before anyone claims things are back to normal. Even at that it will be a new normal. Baton Rouge stands to gain and lose from all of this.

I am not a B.R. native but if I was I would not be happy with the shape of things to come.

 

[Disney Doll]

"We are not taking care of ourselves. We are not taking care of our women, and we are not taking care of our children when you have a community where 70 percent of its children are being born to one parent."

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This is about the smartest thing he said, and about the only one which has a modicum of truth to it.

And no, I can't see a white leader saying "let's build a white city" and getting away with it.

And no, I don't think Mayor Nagin was smart enough to come up with the chocolate metaphor as being a mix of black and white therefore touting racila diversity. I think one of his spin doctors came up with that after he made his ridiculous speech, in an effort to backpedal.

And BTW, we have acquaintances in NOLA who are white, in the legal profession(one is a judge) and their neighborhood, including their home, was completely destroyed, has not yet been rebuilt, or even started being rebuilt.

Another example of people "seeing" or "hearing" only what they want.

 

[Muffin]

And BTW, we have acquaintances in NOLA who are white, in the legal profession(one is a judge) and their neighborhood, including their home, was completely destroyed, has not yet been rebuilt, or even started being rebuilt.

Another example of people "seeing" or "hearing" only what they want.

I know dozens (if not hundreds) of white people whose neighborhoods and homes were completely destroyed. Katrina may have been a lot of things, but she wasn't a racist.

 

[arminnie]

I know dozens (if not hundreds) of white people whose neighborhoods and homes were completely destroyed. Katrina may have been a lot of things, but she wasn't a racist.

I agree.

Also there seems to be this perception that New Orleans has become Lily white - not true. I have seen black people EVERYPLACE I've been in New Orleans.

There are black people in the grocery store (shopping and working), in the malls, at Home Depot, in the restaurants, etc. When I was getting my nails done last week I was visiting with two black women who were telling me about their rebuilding as we all waited for our nails to dry.

I've seen upper class blacks, middle class blacks, and yes even a couple of drunks sitting on the sidewalk (seen all of those in both black and white). I've seen groups of young black men playing basketball on a corner.

I've been served by a black waiter at a restaurant. I've waited for a table at a restaurant with blacks who going to be served by a white waiter. I've chatted with a black attorney in line at Sam's. I've seen black and white children on their way to school.

I'm usually not that observant about the race of the people around me, but have paid attention because there are so many people claiming that blacks are not welcome to come back.