“What New Orleans should have told us is that many blacks living there have not made it on their own, or with the assistance of a long succession of black mayors and black police chiefs. In that city, 45 percent of black families with children under age eighteen are headed by an unmarried mother, and 96 percent of births to teenagers are to unmarried girls. Roughly 58 percent of the high-school students drop out before they graduate. The city has the highest homicide rate in the country, and–until recently–the city’s police department had many incompetent officers. In 1994 a decorated black police officer ordered the murder of a black woman who had complained of police brutality. Between 1992 and 1995 about sixty New Orleans police officers were charged with crimes. One gang of cops guarded a warehouse that stored cocaine. Under a black reform chief, things began to improve; the recent incident of police brutality captured on videotape and broadcast nationwide is an exception to the rule”. –James Q. Wilson, Political Scientist writing in the American Enterprise Institute on the, “American Dilemma, Problems of Race Still Cry to Be Solved”
Jan10th2006
Last year I applauded Kanye for not having ‘pelos en la lengua’ - not holding back on his feelings, but I didn’t agree with his thoughts. Race had nothing to do with ALL of the inept government officials and the power of a natural disaster.
The (black) New Orleans DA recently loss an employment discrimination suit in federal court brought by several former employees.
Eight days after taking office, he fired 56 employees (all but three were white). Over the next six months, he hired 69 employees (all but five were black). One of the few ballistics experts in the office, a white male, was replaced by a black man with little experience other than being a lifeguard and doing clerical work.
Mayor Nagin doesn’t have a problem with segregation….
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/6153685/detail.html
The man definitly needs to go.
You weren’t kidding, as if what you posted wasn’t enough, we now have this from the mayor:
This mayor needed to go long ago.