Thursday, January 19, 2006

New Orleans the Chocolate City

It is me or does this sound like the name of a Prince album? Anyway, Ray Nagin is an idiot...
Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country,

Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves.
Sure Ray, God just sent hurricanes to New Orleans to punish the whole country for being in Iraq... Right.
It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.
These quotes are idiotic... Even more idiotic is the ridiculous attempt at explaining his comments the next day:
How do you make chocolate? You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about. New Orleans was a chocolate city before Katrina. It is going to be a chocolate city after. How is that divisive? It is white and black working together, coming together and making something special.
Right... that's exactly what you meant, when you said "This city will be a majority African American city", I guess you were saying a little white chocolate and a lot of dark chocolate. The statement about New Orleans being a majority African American city doesn't bother me entirely because they are accurate. The thing that bothers me is this speech is divise and it hurts race relations in this country to have a mayor of a large city running around talking about the things that separate us, instead of the things that bring us together... Especially, on MLK day for gosh sakes. Does he remember any of the I have a dream speech?

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