I tend to think that Mayor Ray (Chocolate) Nagin really doesn’t really hate white people per se.
Being a politician, like most of them, he is just pandering to whatever demographic gives him the best chance of staying on office, getting a paycheck, payoffs and juicy perks and mass media face time that come with the job.
If the majority of citizens in NO were Jewish, he’d join B'nai Brith; white anglos - The Masons; white Catholics - Knights of Columbus; Asian - Japanese American Citizens League or Republican? Wasn’t he supposedly a Republican at one time?
I guess I’m just very cynical.