New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says that when it comes to rebuilding New Orleans, a black majority is essential. “You can’t have New Orleans no other way.”
“I don’t care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day,” Nagin said in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech. “This city will be a majority African-American city. It’s the way God wants it to be.”
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