HUD boss says New Orleans "not going to be as black"

HUD boss says New Orleans "not going to be as black"

By Joel Havemann
Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — President Bush's housing secretary has touched off a tempest by saying a revived New Orleans no longer may be a majority-black city and that some of the low-lying, predominantly black neighborhoods probably should not be rebuilt.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said he expected New Orleans, a city of about 475,000 that was two-thirds black before Hurricane Katrina struck, to emerge only 35 to 40 percent black and with possibly 350,000 residents.

"Whether we like it or not, New Orleans is not going to be 500,000 people for a long time," Jackson told the Houston Chronicle, which published his comments Thursday. "New Orleans is not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again."

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Jackson, who is black, in turn took the black activists to task. "I wish that the so-called black leadership would stop running around this country like Jesse and the rest of them making this a racial issue," he said, referring to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

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HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, left, accused activists such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson of making displacement of New Orleans' residents a racial issue.

It already IS a racial issue. He can't see that?

:wtf:

:puke: :mad: :eyes:

:wow:

Clueless idiot. :eyes: