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Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005 10:19 a.m. EDT
Mayor Nagin Joins Race Baiters
Up until yesterday, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin had refused to join critics who say that Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts were slow because the majority of the storm's victims were black.
In an interview Saturday with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, however, Nagin said his thinking had evolved.
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"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?
"If it’s race," said Nagin, "fine, let’s call a spade a spade, a diamond a diamond. We can never let this happen again.
"Even if you hate black people and you are in a leadership position, this did not help anybody,” he added.
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