On the recordJuly 8, 2014
This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. Icing on the cake. This city will be a majority African-American city.
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Ray Nagin
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transcripts.cnn.comRay Nagin: “This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. Icing on the cake. This city will be a majority African-American…”
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Ray Nagin expresses his vision for New Orleans' demographic future after Hurricane Katrina.
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