Comments on: New Orleans: One Year Later

Mayor Ray Nagin Talks About Efforts To Bring The Crescent City Back To Life

[tammyn2]

Mayor Nagin should get his facts straight,
1. The federal government did NOT respond immediately on 9/11, the fact is that it was the residents of New York and New Jersey that were the first responders on 9/11. In fact it was Mayor Guliani that had things under control long before the president came out of hiding.

Listen, I am a white man from Virginia, and personally, I think the Mayor is doing the best he can. We know who controls most of the money in this country and it sure isn't black folk. In the end the city will be rebuilt like they want it.
But thats okay! If it brings jobs back, there will be plenty of room for diversty to flourish.

[hiddenbeach]

New Orleans is indictive of the state of the country. While whites had no interruptions in their pre/post-Katrina plans, (parties, debutant balls), blacks are still struggling, extremely hard, to get even the barest essentials together.

Nagin made key mistakes in the beginning by not evacuating the city. But this is truly showing his lack of political and personal power & organizating skills in not getting the city back on its feet.

This is not the person you want running anything other than a newsstand on the corner. And not even then because you don't know if you'll be able to even get that day's paper!!

Nagin made the 1st mistake, the people made the 2nd by reelecting him. This is a sad day for America & New Orleans.

[amhunt007]

Simply put, Ray Nagin is an idiot. We saw it a year ago when he bungled the evacuation of his city and then holed up in hotel and hid out leaving others to clean up the mess of Katrina. And we saw it again tonight in his remarks against New York City. Unfortunately, the bigger idiots in this story are the people of New Orleans who elected him for a second term. In the simplest of terms, What were you thinking? Nagin should have been punished for his lack of action and decision making ability during Katrina and instead you rewarded him with a second term.

[truthbetold5]

So next time you report on a subject so fragile, please don't just let any *** you find get into the homes and minds of America, because you are helping to tell a story that will become history, and the way the tale evolves into how we remember it in the future largely depends on how our media shows people HOW to perceive it. Not everything that came out of all this was negative. Yes, we need to know the negativities and mishaps in these situations, but please also show our citizens that there is good happening too, and not everyone from there is a white racist or a black thug. Believe it or not, me and most of the people I know (who have lost everything we own and have had the worst year of our lives)still believe that humanity in general is good and we are all brothers and sisters in God's eyes. (END)

[truthbetold5]

Before this storm, we were famous for being a friendly people who loved family, friends, and often complete strangers. People of all races and colors were welcome. That city and its suburbs were diverse, and we all lost homes, lives, memories, possessions, and things that if you haven't lived it, it's impossible to explain, especially in a short note format such as this. So if you must interview these imbeciles on national tv, please at least show the other side of the coin. Katrina was colorblind. After all, St. Bernard Parish (which touches N.O.) was completely underwater, and that community is predominantly Caucasian. But let me end by saying that what our city, our nation, and even our world needs now is not to be torn apart at times like these. We need humanity. We need love. We need each other. (CONTINUED)

[truthbetold5]

Dear 60 Minutes,
My name is Misty Marshall and I am a proud native of New Orleans. I lost my home and several loved ones last year when Hurricane Katrina ravaged through my dear sweet city, which drove me to regroup here in New York for some time. Before that, I was a correspondent for the local news and a well-known musician. I have to say that after viewing your program tonight, I am deeply saddened at how reporting the "news" has evolved. When you have access to a medium as powerful as television, you have a RESPONSIBILITY to report an unbiased story, telling all sides. Instead, we heard from a professor who teaches at LSU (which is an hour and a half away from N.O.!) telling us how it will lose all of its culture and charm, when he doesn't even live or work in the city. What about the efforts of Arabi Wrecking Crewe, Harry Connick, Wynton Marsalis, the Edge from U2, and others who are pouring sweat and monies into helping bring back our artists by building an entire musicians community and putting instruments back in their hands? Why did you interview some fat, old, bigot who claims that "blacks and whites are not the same here" and speaks on behalf of a city that quite honestly, does not agree with his racist remarks. Most New Orleanians loved each other and got along harmoniously, hence the nickname, "The Big Easy." (CONTINUED)

[jlong271]

Another Bush

[sparkeee35]

FIRST NAGIN HAS TO ADMIT HE DID SOMETHING WRONG BEFORE HE APOLOGIZES. HE DON'T THINK HE DID ANYTHING WRONG. He has STEADILY screwed up..makin RACIST remarks..comparin NY to NO..lettin people die right in front of him. YET...people are suppose to want to help him rebuild his "chocolate city" with THAT mentality? Where is J.Jackson? How come he's not helpin rebuild that city? He's the first one to scream RACISM if someone else were to say anything like what Nagin has said towards other races. YET..Nagin wants people to help rebuild. I was always taught..don't ask someone to do something that you wouldn't do yourself.

[mwreill]

I believe that Mayor Nagin has no place to compare an attack on the U.S to Hurricane Katrina many lives were lost on 9/11/01. It takes more than fixing a hole that is below sea level than getting man power on the streets of New Orleans to clean up the mess. It will take years to build the city of New York's ground zero to its gorly days again. I have understood some of Nagins remarks in the past but he has no idea how much the difference is between the two cities. I do understand that it is hard to get the man power down into the neigbhor hoods to clean up the streets and make it a healthier place to place live. I feel Nagin owes the people of New York an aplogie.