This is a recent cover we designed and illustrated for The Intellectual Activist magazine. The cover story was partly based on the widely circulated editorial by Robert Tracinski, An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State .
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin met with President Bush recently, so the cover seemed timely. From KATC: Nagin: Bush focused on promise to rebuild.
Nagin says Bush was disappointed that Congress reallocated about one-point-four (b) billion in proposed levee money for other Katrina projects. But the president promised to push to get the money back.
And from The Times-Picayune: Nagin backpedals, apologizes; Katrina's wrath not God's will, he says.
Faced with howls of protest, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin apologized Tuesday for claiming that a vengeful God smote New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina because of heavenly disapproval of America's involvement in Iraq and of rampant violence within urban black communities.Posted by Forkum at January 18, 2006 09:34 PMNagin also offered a less sweeping apology for his remarks about the city's future demographics in the aftermath of the storm and subsequent catastrophic flood. His comments came in a speech, delivered on Martin Luther King Day with City Hall as a backdrop, in which the mayor said God intended New Orleans to rise again as a "chocolate city," which he defined as a "black-majority city."
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