This article and the slant Retort gives it are near criminally wrong.
First, the city is now less than half black. That's an important change in stats and the city was never, ever 2/3 black. That's simply a lie for no cause.
Second, of the mayors before Mr Landrieu, 70-78 was his father, followed by Ernest Morial (mulatto/mestizo), followed by Sidney Barthelemy, who may have been more white than anything else but was definitely mulatto, followed by Marc Morial (son of Ernest), followed by Ray Nagin.
So New Orleans has had black mayors from 1978, sure, but it also has had white mayors for its entire history excepting the 8 years of C Ray Nagin. So it's been 8 years since New Orleans had a white mayor. Or does whiteness only count when you're all white? Otherwise you just don't qualify? Just a little black makes you all black?
Smacks of a disgusting sort of Jim Crow era racism.
And Ray Nagin might be mulatto for all I know. The others I've all seen personally, alive and in my presence, and you knew they were as white as they were black without asking, but their heritages are on the public record! Ernest Morial was probably more not black than he was black! Apparently newspapers can't be bothered to research these days. Shocking how they are crashing and burning.
