Throwing out the race card on Katrina response – again

This time from re-elected New Orleans Mayor Ray O. Nagin:

INDIANAPOLIS (Aug. 19) – New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Friday blamed racism and government bureaucracy for hamstringing his city’s ability to weather Hurricane Katrina and recover from the disaster that struck the Gulf Coast nearly a year ago.

In remarks to the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, Nagin said the hurricane “exposed the soft underbelly of America as it relates to dealing with race and class.”

“And I, to this day, believe that if that would have happened in Orange County, California, if that would have happened in South Beach, Miami, it would have been a different response,” Nagin said.

I dunno – I hear Miami has a heavy Hispanic/Latino population, so the response would have probably been purposely slow there as well. He may have a point on Orange County in California, though. /sarcasm

Perhaps Nagin needs some geography lessons? Or maybe lessons on how not to be a such a flaming hypocrite on racism would be more in order?

Hat tip: ST reader Dana R. Pico

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10 Responses to "Throwing out the race card on Katrina response – again"

Ryan says:

August 20, 2006 at 11:40 am

..and to this day I believe if New Orleans had a different mayor they would’ve been able to weather the disaster and recover more quickly.

Had it happened to Orange County, perhaps someone would’ve called it “Vanilla County.”
Dana says:

August 20, 2006 at 11:41 am

Hey, Sis, thanks for the link!

I once saw a cartoon which drew the situation like a toilet, with Lake Ponchatrain as the tank, and new Orleans as the bowl. Humorous, perhaps a bit crude, but essentially correct — and Katrina flushed the toilet. I’m still trying to figure out why anyone would rebuild in the toilet bowl again, praying that no one will ever flush in the future — and expect the taxpayers to pay for such stupidity.
Big Bang Hunter says:

August 20, 2006 at 11:48 am

– The good news is, the race baiters days are numbered. It doesn’t matter how much the Dems juggle the numbers and process. In the end it won’t matter if Screaming Dean puts on a red nose and a clown suit, and does a Rap album with Ice tea. You still have to garner a majority in elections the last time I checked. So far the only thing that’s happened is the Kos Nediots have managed to lose a seat in the House; Lieberman is way ahead of everyone as an Independent in CT, and the voting hasn’t even started. The hard core Left think they can do it with smoke and mirrors, but they’re so into manipulation I think they’ll end up overcooking the stew. The McKinney vote was a little microcosm of the awakening desire of Black American’s to have a real voice instead of just blindly following the same old Democratic sales pitch.

– Somebody should inform Nagin that Bush’s Rovian waves are less effective out here in Cal, since so many of the voters wear tin-foil, so he’s unable to conjure up hurricanes.

– Bang
benning says:

August 20, 2006 at 4:39 pm

Ahhh, but you missed the Liberal “Dead Giveaway” phrase, Nagin at his entitlement whining best: “We’re not going to let that happen. They’re going to give us our money, and we’re going to rebuild this city.”

“… our money …”! Whose money, Ray?
forest hunter says:

August 20, 2006 at 5:36 pm

In his beliefs that the the response would have been different, is it in part due to the THREE DAY advance warning and those folks would’ve heeded it, saved themselves and or prepared for it. By being prepared I mean food, water and ammo for fending off the vulturous gang pukes.

Did Nagin take note of the aftermath figures? Whites and blacks were almost equal in deaths. In contrast to (as I recall) zero Asian (As in true Asian not terrorist asian). Wonder why that was?

(Starting to wander OT a bit, but worth mentioning) Over here the Asians haven’t been westernized/Americanized. When they get advance warnings they prepare and do not even consider the *GEE WHAT A GOLD MINE OF TREASURES* factor. In fact if something were to happen to your dwelling/business, you’ll find them shoulder to shoulder with you in a mutual effort to *do for you* the things needing done. Just like it used to be where I grew up in America as a kid. I’ll stop before I go too far down a trail that could be it’s own thread, but this destructive, what is now going on third generation, gimme gimme crap imbedded into the DNA must come to an end.
Marshall Art says:

August 20, 2006 at 7:44 pm

No doubt forest. But imbedded it is and therein lies the trouble.

Nagin doesn’t surprise with his pathetic buck passing. The fact that he was re-elected is reason enough to terminate aid and let the idiots who elected him pay for reconstruction themselves. If they’re so stupid to re-elect one of the reasons for their troubles, they’re on their own.
forest hunter says:

August 20, 2006 at 8:03 pm

Time for a change of prescription for those bellied up to the trough. They *reason* things through the easy buck. Which is why I suspect slow is the response, given the long list of inabilities, graft and misuse, throughout the gimme gimme program.
stackja says:

August 20, 2006 at 8:51 pm

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin will keep on nagin as long as the MSM accepts his nagin.
Lorica says:

August 21, 2006 at 1:23 pm

And we wonder how Hamas gets elected by the people. Nagin’s incompetance is on a scale so grand it dwarfs Boston’s big dig. How these people re-elected this individual. And why is this person not up in Statesville wondering where his youth went is totally beyond me. Sadly the poor voter really didn’t have much to choose from when it came to voting. They should of wrote in a candidate. Hell they should of wrote in Haley Barbour. How much trouble have we heard out of Mississippi since the very beginning of this thing. – Lorica
Drewsmom says:

August 23, 2006 at 5:55 am

I am simply amazed at how most blacks are forgetting what the mayor and the govenor did to THEM and their state — ALL THE BLAME WENT TO BUSH, go figure.!!!!!!

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