Friday, September 02, 2005

Mayor Ray Nagin

Here is the unedited version of the interview to the Mayor Ray Nagin. The most powerful political speech I have ever heard. Scratch political, this is a speech about honest compassion. Some rough transcripts:
"I don't know what they are doing, their air conditioners must be good, some good smoke coming out of it"
"B S , where is the beef?"
"He flying over in his Air Force 1 don't do it justice?"
"feeding the public a line of bull and they are DYING"
"Did the Iraqi people asked us to go there?"
"After 9/11 we gave the president unprecedented powers... Now you need to tell ME that a place where the oil comes in... 10000 that have died... We can't figure out how to authorize the money? ... Man, I am not on of those drug addicts. My mind is very clear."
"GET OFF YOUR ASSES AND DO SOMETHING AND FIX THE BIGGEST GODDAMN CRISIS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY!!!"
The interview ends with the mayor and the news reporter crying.
Please, listen to this interview, all the way to the end. I have heard the edited version, but this is much better. Listen to it. It will be worth it.

This could have been prevented. This is not being addressed with as much impetus as 9/11 or Iraq. Why are the poor black democrats dying?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

it couldn't have been prevented. but it could've been controlled. Preventing would've involved thousands of decisions made by hundreds of people over the past 100 years in the Louisiana area.

Conrolling the issue is my beef. The fact that 5,000 troops weren't staged 2 hours outside of NOLA on Sunday ready to roll into the Big Easy at Dawn on Tuesday is silly. The fact that 5,000 more aren't there now, is even sicker.

The interview is very powerful. Thanks for posting.