“As we think about rebuilding New Orleans, surely, God is mad at America. He's sending hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroying and putting stress on this country. Surely, he's not approval [sic] of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But, surely, he is upset at black America, also.”

— Ray Nagin

Speech at a Martin Luther King memorial service, quoted in Hurricanes May Be God's Punishment, Mayor Says http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jan/17/nation/na-nagin17, Los Anegles Times, 17 January 2007
2006

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