Ray Nagin: “We shocked the world.”

And as we think about rebuilding New Orleans, sure God is mad at America. He's sending hurricane after hurricane after hurricane. And it's destroying and putting stress on this country.

This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.

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.

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