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echo: mensa
to: BOB KLAHN
from: FRANK SCHEIDT
date: 2006-01-20 10:25:00
subject: Nagin and New Orleans

-=> Quoting Bob Klahn to All <=-

 BK> Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans, made a comment that New Orleans
 BK> will be a black city again, and that is how God wants it.

 BK> When I heard about this, on local talk radio, which is all right

Wow!  Your local talk radio is all right???

 BK> wing, I thought that was one stupid thing to say. Still, it's
 BK> hard to miss the fact that got a whole lot more coverage and
 BK> outrage than any conservative making a racial comment would get
 BK> on talk radio. When a white conservative says something equally
 BK> stupid the right wing media falls all over themselves to explain
 BK> that he really isn't racist, and that it's being overblown.
 BK> Witness Bennett's stupidity on black abortion and the crime rate.

Nonsense.  If a well-known white made such a stupid statement it 
would be on the front page of the New York Times and you *know* it!

 BK> Still, it was stupid.

Correct!

 BK> The part I did not hear about is where he said a lot more about
 BK> how the black community had to take responsibility for improving
 BK> itself. When Cosby said that he got headlines in the right wing
 BK> media. When Nagin said it, it got zero coverage that I have seen
 BK> yet.

He probably didn't say that ...

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