On the recordJanuary 16, 2006
It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans.
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Ray Nagin
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transcripts.cnn.comRay Nagin: “It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New…”
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Mayor Nagin calls for unity and emphasizes the importance of African-Americans in the city's future.
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Jul 8, 2014
Don't tell me 40,000 people are coming here. They not here. It's too dog gone late. Get off your behind and let's do something and let's fix the biggest crisis in the history of this country.
Jul 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.
Aug 31, 2008
No, I wouldn't advise that, because you know, we have downed power lines. We have trees. Our sewer system is not working. The hospitals still have skeletal crews. We still have a lot of work to do.
Jan 10, 2007
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.