We, as black people, it's time. 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. And I don't care what people are saying uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.
Mayor Ray Nagin emphasizes the need for unity and rebuilding New Orleans with a focus on its cultural identity.
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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.
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.
Read my lips. We will rebuild New Orleans East and the Lower Ninth Ward.
We will put all of our resources to focus on murders and violent crime. Everything we have.