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Subject: [Leica] Katrina relief pin-up calendar--Bro Nagin
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Tue Aug 29 15:56:34 2006

Nagin wants despirately to appeal to African Americans, so he repeatedly
puts his foot in his mouth with racially-divisive comments meant to appeal
to the people in his immediate audience. He really doesn't have to worry
about getting white votes in the future (we are a two-term city). But the
fellow who really frosts my ass is the LSU black studies professor who
claims that things things are ducky for whites down here (they aren't) and
there there are no jobs for blacks down here (there are, and at much higher
wages than most places in the south), and that the blacks live in trailers
while the whites live in houses. I would hazard a guess that there are far
more whites than blacks in FEMA trailers down here. 

I think that a rebuilt New Orleans will have to be smaller than it is now.
Nagin thinks that it should be much larger. What would be the incentive be
to move down here if there is a mandatory evaculation for everyone for every
category 3 hurricane that approaches us?

There are a lot of armchair theorists in the US deciding whose fault this
and that was. Nagin tried repeatedly to get everyone to leave two days
before the storm, so I cannot fault him too much there. But now he is out to
make a name for himself in the black community by getting into all of the
racial crap coming in from all over the US. I think the real problem with
Katrina was that (1) we hadn't been hit with anything so powerful in
Louisiana history, (2) we hadn?t had a really bad hurricane since Betsy, (3)
we considered ourselves to be in better shape than we were with Betsy, and
(last but not least) (4) Katrina was worse than Camille. I don't think
anyone believed that we could be hit with something worse than Camille.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Bill
Smith
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:30 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Katrina relief pin-up calendar--Bro Nagin


A vacuum of leadership and management competence. Look at the condition of
the businesses, schools, debris cleanup, hospitals 12 months after. 

SonC@aol.com wrote:  

In a message dated 8/28/2006 9:00:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
wrs111445@yahoo.com writes:

The biggest problem in NO is the gigantic vacuum created by the re-election 
of Nagin. Amen.


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Huh? What does gigantic vacuum mean? Nagin's re-election is a symptom.



Regards, 
Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane
?galit?, libert?, crawfish

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