I've been pretty sympathetic to Mayor Nagin through this whole mess, and I'm even sympathetic to what I think he was trying to say in his MLK Day speech. But at best he showed clumsy political skills in pissing off both blacks and whites in New Orleans.
In the meantime, Wynton Marsalis, of all people, made the speech that needed to be made:
Um, the link-making function doesn't seem to be funtioning, but it's at http://www2.tulane.edu/marsalis011606.cfm
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