Ray Nagin: “New Orleans will come back.”

We need help. We need fairness. And we need it now.

This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. Icing on the cake. This city will be a majority African-American city.

Read my lips. We will rebuild New Orleans East and the Lower Ninth Ward.

What you're seeing is the residuals from a system prior to Katrina that was broken. Katrina is exposing everything in its rawest forms now.