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Old 02-28-2006, 07:49 AM  
chadglni
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Originally Posted by escorpio
I live in a bicultural bilingual community and if the mayor ever publicly came out in favor of one race I'd be pissed and consider him a racist.

This giant stick is starting to hurt.
There's no use arguing over the subject but the fact is NO was a majority black community. The poor neighborhoods that were demolished in the storm were majority black by a longshot. Many of these people left the state because they have nothing left. While you're worried about the way something is said the mayor was talking to a majority black crowd in a majority black city who had concerns because so many of their neighbors were forced out of town. "New Orleans will be a chocolate city again" or whatever he said is hardly racist in that situation. I would say the same thing if a spanish community was destroyed and their mayor said "It will be fiesta time again". It's just silly to worry about such petty crap.
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