E writes:
All of the apologists out there that rail against Nagin critics by levying charges of racism are themselves ignoring what Nagin's policies are actually doing to the African American community of New Orleans.
The reality is that the biggest Nagin apologists out there aren't those that think attacks on Mr. Nagin are racist, they're the racist Republicans that themselves profit from Mr. Nagin's implementation of a bastardized free market disaster "recovery" policy slate that disproportionately hurts poor African Americans.
Recall that Ray Nagin himself contributed to George Bush's campaign in 2000 and nearly maxed out to the evil Billy Tauzin.
Also recall that campaign donations of members of the Bring New Orleans Back Commission, hand picked by Mayor Nagin, went to GOP candidates a whopping 94% of the time.
It is Nagin and the policies of his administration that are propping up and perpetuating the economic and racial injustice.
Those that call critics of Mayor Nagin's recovery policy racist should look in the mirror. They should think about who's really holding up Ray Nagin. They should look at who's really behind the Mayor's Excellence in Recovery Award (i.e. excluding those that were tricked into membership). They ain't exactly the victims of Katrina - they're the profiteers of false recovery.
All of this is dead on. Read the rest of E's post here.
As we prepare to mark the third year of this "free market recovery" it's time to think about how in many ways the conservative cronies and beneficiaries of Ray Nagin's policies are winning the Third Battle of New Orleans on nearly every front. From health care to housing to education, the new New Orleans is being built according to a radical conservative blueprint that would have been practically unimaginable prior to the Federal Flood. I'll have more on the near total victory of the Nagin-Couhig conservative axis in an upcoming post. But for now, it's helpful to keep reminding people just who and what Ray Nagin stands for.
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