louie ferri com says white man blew up levies in New Orleans .All of jessies bro&sis wouldn't go back and fix?
462891
Ferrycon is a mooslem extremist' ranting and raving about anything he can to keep racial tensions high.
519090
I think Nagin will do a better job of trying to bring the New Orleans culture back than his opponent would have. This is not a small job, by any means, and it will take a long time but I think Nagin will prevent the city from turning into one giant strip mall... he's also being very honest when he says it will never be "exactly the same" as before, but I think he takes the city's identity very personally and will "protect" that identity a lot better.
519498
Maybe Ray Nagin is getting stoopider- he wants to be Forrest Gump (always talkin' about Boxes of Chocolates and what not).\n\nThere were many other ways he could have stated the idea that would have been acceptable...the fact that NOLA is/was predominantly african-American in population.
53937
If caught, that would give the white man a reason to  either beat you to a pulp to remind you where your 'place' was or kill you. Beat you to death, more like it. A young man named Ennis (sorry, can't remember his full name at this moment) came from Chicago to visit family, whistled at a white woman, and a couple of white guys killed him so brutally, that his mother didnot recognized him. did I tell you he was about 13 or so years old? Give or take a couple of years, he was a kid. That's what would have happened if you did that during Jim Crowe's Law.
1181314
The people of New Orleans!! I want to say up front I have nothing to do with that cespool of sucmbags. Save the money, & let the "Chocolate City" turn into Atlantis......\n\n6/27/06 The lawlessness, the disfunction, the looters, killers. Hell now they need the National Guard to protect a city with fewer people than before. The Mayor is useless and the football team sucks. Do I need more?
347761
Don't listen to these people...Lincoln was flaming.  We're talking Brokeback gay here.  It's rumored he wrote showtunes while on the toilet and had a beauty salon installed off of the Oval Office.
43433
As someone who deployed with the National Guard to Louisiana to help clean up, I can say without hesistation that Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco are two of the most inept, incompetent public servants I have ever had the displeasure of working with. Some claim that they were just caught in a bad situation - Good leaders rise above the situation NO MATTER WHAT IT IS. Just like Mayor Guiliani.\n\nNo, Mayor Nagin is incompetent and should not be mayor. But just like the idiots who just re-elected Mayor Kilpatrick in Detroit, New Orleans will get exactly what it deserves if it does not find new leadership.
1002065
Oh my...\n\nI have never read such an uneducated opinion on US History in all my life...\n\nYes, I agree.....do some research, read some books... \n\nTHEY should get the blame? Hello-it was the EUROPEANS who came to the western land and brought slaves with them to work the land in this "new world".  The United States only abolished slavery after many years of bloodshed and pressure from the citizens...but they didn't welcome these former slaves with open arms... These men and women had to go through many more years of hell to get equal rights....\n\nAnd the Native Americans should feel lucky for the Casinos? Are you kidding me????? The Europeans raped their lands, their families, forced them to assimilate to "christian" culture....and they should be grateful???  To this day, the federal government is screwing the Native Americans.... \n\nGo to my link below...\n\nAnd, who do you think the United States are???? \n\nWe are decendants of slaves, Native Americans forced out of their lands, Hispanics, and yes...those Europeans you are talking about. It's not like those who created the US officially are a totally different type of people who went around "fixing" everything. \n\nThose that need to be blamed are long since dead.... but we can learn from their mistakes...and make sure we know the real history of what really happened....
167590
The Mississippi River kinda goes through a part of New Orleans.  There is an "East Bank" side (downtown, Superdome, Convention Center, 9th Ward, etc.), and a "West Bank" side (ongoing joke that people are less educated and lack social skills).  A huge bridge connects the east and west banks.  The east and west banks are governed by different police forces and are different "parishes" (other states have counties).\n\nEast Bankers were trapped at the Superdome, there was no food, water, medical care, etc.  The people started looting - not just for food, but also computers, electronics, shoes - you name it.  They also began shooting at rescuers.  YES, SHOOTING AT THE HELICOPTERS TRYING TO RESCUE THEM.\n\nWest Bankers had no better provisions.  But they also had no large evacuation centers like the Superdome.  They were just as stuck as the East Bankers.  \n\nSome of the East Bankers began to walk across the bridge to the West Bank.  They broke into homes, DEFACED PROPERTY, PUT OUT CIGARETTES ON FLOORS, AND DEFECATED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOMS.  They also broke into the West Bank's ONLY shopping mall, looted it, then burned it.  It is still closed to this day.\n\nAuthorities on the West Bank soon stopped the East Bankers from crossing the bridge, because there were no better provisions on the West Bank than the East Bank.  Also because they were destroying homes and burning things.\n\nNow the world thinks it was such a horrible, deplorable thing to keep the East Bankers from crossing the bridge.\n\ndilemma:  do we let the East Bankers cross the bridge, break into homes and businesses and destroy/burn them, let them cause chaos when there are few police officers available to control the peace?  \n\nanswer:  it depends on what side of the bridge you live on.
777382
I was sent a video of a black man calling for the blacks to kill all "whiteys".....it is on the internet...why was he allowed to get away with that?\nWhy don't the news guys go hunt him down and make him reveal sources and make them appologise?\nWhy do the blacks feel the need to kill all the whites? Why do black americans feel the need to take over?\nI think maybe it's time to give the other children a chance at scholarships and make the blacks stand in line like the rest.\nIf they want to be equal..lets start now...no favoritism!\nThe entertainers, the newsmen, the actors, the sports players have great paying jobs and they are mostly black now..\n\nwhen will it be enough?
198034
I was deployed to Louisiana with the National Guard for two months after Hurricane Katrina. I had the distinct displeasure of meeting Mayor Nagin on a couple of ocassions. The man is an incompetent, racist boob.\n\nTrue leaders find solutions for their people NO MATTER WHAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE. All Mayor Nagin did was whine and complain. He had no real plan of action to help his people.\n\nHe deserves neither the office nor the title of Mayor.
461287
They were WARNED that they MUST evacuate.  Busses were running full time to get people out, yet so many refused to leave.  Some were on the news dancing in the streets of the French Quarter as the storm approached.  After the storm, they all ran for the Superdome, and there were not enough supplies for the additional people, so that screwed the people who originally went to be sheltered there.  Something else angers me: The National Guard gets blamed for not responding, but the storm was over Tuesday, and TV cameras broadcast National Guard at the airport on Thursday.  This pretty enlisted female told the reporter that they arrived Wednesday, and were setting up relief.\n\nThen cops are out there looting Wal Mart (caught on video).  It would have been one thing if they were getting food, but, well you know the rest of the story.  \n\nPeople cry for the idiots in New Orleans (no, the ones who evacuated are NOT idiots), while Rita pretty much levelled some towns in Southwest Louisiana.  Places where there were towns were now just a bunch of cement foundations.  One person found their house a few miles away.  Nobody even talks about these people--Mississippi gets more attention.
34915
First, it was a mistake to build below sea level. Why should the Federal Government pay the bill for local government's poor planning? The Libs are quick to blame a Republican run federal government. But from what I have heard, they GAVE them money and the local government divied it up for their pet projects and not on the dike.\nAnd from what I have seen regarding that hurricane, I don't think ANYTHING could have held up against it. It was aweful!
1153516
You're oviously not from New Orleans.  \n\nBush is an idiot, if you can't see that there is nothing I could say to prove it to you.
954840
I'm surprised he even remembered them.  Wasn't the current GOP-controlled Congress to have appropriated aid down there by now, but still haven't?  So much for priorities....maybe if the ghost of Terri Schiavo was spotted in New Orleans they'd stop what they were doing and actually take action..........?\n\nBTW, I love how conservatives are still blaming the victims, as if they just sat there and let the waves wash over them.  Like Michael Brown of FEMA was REALLY competent, and the feds were REALLY on the ball as to the extent of the damage.  Don't get me started on those damned levees, or the evacuation of patients from the more upscale hospital.  The Bush Administration dropped the ball BIG TIME, and the best the ultra-cons can do is tell the survivor's "it's your fault, you didn't do enough".  Typical.  Same kind of folks who make rape victims carry the child to term because it's Murder.  Like any one of them would actually carry a kid to term......but that's another tangent.
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I guess it is tough to be on their best behavior when they have lost their homes, possessions, everything they own, possibly even family, and they have to depend on the kindness and hospitality of others for everything.  They don't how or when their lives will be put back together.\n\nYour position isn't easy either of course, because we all know how tedious it can be to have long term guests in your home.  I'd try to take a deep breath and try to put yourself in their shoes.\n\nAs hard as it might be, remember, "God grant that I not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his shoes."  \n\nOur society will be remembered for how it treated those who are most unfortunate and most need help.\n\nGod bless you all who are helping the people of New Orleans.
1159062
You are ignorant.  The KKK is not the way to stop crime.  And how do you know some "brown" people stole them.  It could have been you white neighbors too.  Racist :(