eoe wrote:Come on keltic. You know that's not what he meant. He knew that he stood a chance of losing the few Black votes that he had (little known fact: first term brought him major Caucasian votes) so he pandered to a mostly Black audience ....
Eoe:
Well, the reason he made the statement might well have been to appeal to black voters, with whom he never really was all that popular. You are correct there.
But the fact is, Katrina hit the black areas hardest, so New Orleans lost a much greater percentage of it's black residents than it's white residents. If you look at Nagin's statement, all he seems to be saying is that he wants to rebuild the black areas so the blacks will return.
The purpose of the statement was no doubt to appeal to black voters, but the thoughts in the statement-rebuild the city back to where it was-do not seem to be anything to get upset about.