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Nagin Suspects a Plot To Keep Blacks Away – washingtonpost.com New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin has suggested that the slow recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina — which has prevented many black former residents from returning — is part of a plan to change the racial makeup and political leadership of [...]

via Non Traffic Santa: According to the data the Committee itself examined, 56 hours prior to landfall, Katrina was a relatively weak Category 3 storm, heading west in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the next few hours, it began its turn north, but where the storm was going to make landfall along the Gulf Coast [...]

Mayor: New Orleans will seek aid from other nations I know he’s facing some heat in his re-election campaign, afraid he’s gonna get tossed aside in favor of a member of Louisiana’s version of the Kennedy clan (minus, it seems, the venality and debauchery), but I don’t see how saying something like this is gonna [...]