That didn't take long
Mayor Nagin has entered the ranks of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Mayor Nagin Joins Race Baiters.
This article was read by Tim Russert on Meet the Press yesterday, and Mayor Nagin did not back away from it.
"The more I think about it, definitely race played into this," he told the paper."How do you treat people that just want to walk across the bridge and get out, and they’re turned away, because you can’t come to a certain parish?" the embattled mayor complained. "How do resources get stacked up outside the city of New Orleans and they don’t make their way in? How do you not bring one piece of ice?"
Well, when Louisiana officials don't allow them in, where is the only place you can point the finger? When City officials won't allow food and water into the SuperDome, how can you point fingers?
Those displaced by the storm need to be concentrated into an area where help can be delivered to them, not disbursed across the surrounding parishes where they have no support.
Those people should have been bused out of the area before the hurricane hit. It's in the NO Hurricane plan. President Bush can't help it if a third of the New Orleans police force quits and no one shows up to drive the school buses. But it is the responsibility of the Mayor of New Orleans, and he gets rewarded for it, good or bad.
To declare race was an issue is ludicrous. If you have a city that is 80% Black, then 80% of the people stuck will be Black. How does race play into that?
This just makes me want to throw up.