Uppity Ray Nagin put in his place

We've said before that the persecution of Ray Nagin was politically motivated pay-back.

The news that Nagin was sentenced to ten years on that trumped up corruption case is intended to make an example of him. Although the actual "corruption" was laughably trivial by traditional Louisianan political standards, Nagin's real crime was standing up to the white establishment in Washington during the Katrina crisis.

Every would-be Black politician is intended to take a lesson from this example.

Lynching Ray Nagin

I see where they've got former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin at the end of a rope almost.

According to the stuff I've been reading, it has been alleged that in the ebb and flow of his mayoralty he took illicit benefits that were worth somewhere in the range of a couple of hundred K.

Almost enough for a down payment on a beach house on the Gulf Coast.

Apparently this makes him the first crooked mayor in the 295 year history of New Orleans.

That's kind of funny, because all the other guys actually had beach houses on the gulf... never mind down payments.

Mind you, some of those alleged benefits took the form of airplane rides and limo trips, which are hard to put down on shore-front real estate.

$200 thousand?

Almost an insult to pursue the charges.

Ask the mayor of Montreal what $200K will get you. A place in the line.

I don't mean to make light of political corruption if that's what this is about. But I'm pretty sure it's really about something else.

In the darkest hours of Katrina, Ray Nagin stood up to Washington.

This is payback.