Columnist Neal Peirce recommends an individual who, as a federal "super manager," has the ability to forge new understandings in Louisiana while being sensitive to social and racial issues.
"Failing to plan and act aggressively could mean that many of New Orleans' remaining poor blacks end up in temporary, probably heavily guarded camps of housing -- a nightmarish American Soweto.
But a federal manager, knowledgeable about bureaucracy but also sensitive to racial and social issues, could help forge new understandings. With the carrot of truly big-time national government aid, he could negotiate with officials of historically corrupt and racially divisive Louisiana to reach accords impossible in normal times."
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