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Originally Posted by Kulturkampf
So we have fundamentalism coupled with the necessity of New Orleans to remain a black city (arguments that could have well been echoed by citizens of San Francisco closing it to Chinese in the 1880s, or New Yorkers closing it to the Irish in the 1840s and 1850s).
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Ugh. I don't think it's quite the same. I think his point (granted, I haven't read the whole speech) is that New Orleans shouldn't be rebuilt into a city that will price outthe people who had to leave.
And I, btw, proudly live in a chocolate city.
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Embarassing for liberals.
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No, it really, really isn't. Nagin has never spoken for a majority of people anywhere. Pat Robertson has been tolerated and protected for years by the Republican Party, because he built a direct mail/donor list in the South that was essential to the GOP in the late 80's and early 90's.
To compare the two is absurd.