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Ray Nagin: “This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. Icing on the cake. This city will be a majority African-American…”

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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Ray Nagin expresses his vision for New Orleans' demographic future after Hurricane Katrina.

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