Strange but true. Must be a full moon or something.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_10_06.html#085362Forgotston, a resident of Lakeview, accused the mayor of discriminating against white New Orleanians by not including the Lakeview area in his re-entry plan. The e-mail also was sent to eight other public officials.
In fact, under Nagin's plan, white residents as well as African-Americans have been returning in large numbers to parts of the city that did not flood and have already been opened back up: Algiers, Uptown, the French Quarter and the Central Business District.
But Forgotston's focus was on Lakeview, which he described as "the largest, mostly white middle-class area of the city of New Orleans." Under Nagin's plan, Lakeview residents were officially permitted to visit the neighborhood starting Wednesday, though many had jumped the gun.
"There is no other way to describe it," Forgotston wrote of Nagin's timetable, "except as BLATANT RACIAL DISCRIMINATION." "We keep hearing our public officials tell us that they want us back," continued Forgotston, a lawyer and former lobbyist best known publicly as a ceaseless critic of the gambling industry.Look at all those caps. This is HUGH!!!111!!111!11 He's SERIES!!1111!! Cripes, with that attitude, he probably is a FReeper.
What a moran. I mean, this couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that lakeview is imediately adjacent to the infamous 17th St. Canal, and thus sustained the worst flooding in the city (apart from the Lower 9th Ward, "protected" by a different levee), now, could it? Of course not! It's gotta be racism coming down from that mean old black mayor who sassed Our Great President Bush and didn't even get whipped or anything. :sarcasm:
To reecap: C.B. Forgotston Should B. Forgotten.