“I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day…This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be.”

— Ray Nagin

Speech at a Martin Luther King memorial service http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/17/nagin.city/
2006

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