Mayor: New Orleans to be "chocolate" again

AP ^ | 1/16/2006, 1:16 p.m. CT | BRETT MARTEL

[rvoitier]

"We ask black people ... 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," Nagin said Monday. "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."

[rvoitier]

Heaven helps us if a white said he wanted N.O. to be vanilla again.

[Sometimes A River]

Sounds a bit racist to me, Mayor Schoolbus.

[SlowBoat407]

Sounds like ethnic cleansing to me.

[DouglasKC]

I thought for sure this was satire.

[t1b8zs]

Aint that the truth

[martin_fierro]

Guess he never heard of white chocolate.

[mtbopfuyn]

Whoa! If whitey had said that....

[who knows what evil?]

Chocolate? Is Willy Wonka coming to town? Cool.

[MeanWestTexan]

No joke; what a bigot.

Just reverse it:

"Our town to be lily-white again."

Pathetic.

That said, I am sure Houston would be happy to send most of the Katrina folks home.

[jslade]

Funny since Nagin is a mulatto.

[mosquewatch.com]

"This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. Whatever Pat Robertson had it looks like Nagin caught it.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Racial "Double Standard" alert!

[Clara Lou]

The man is an abomination.

[rockabyebaby]

Racism at it's finest.........

[RichInOC]

I'd rather it be praline again.

[mikeus_maximus]

I've been to New Orleans. It didn't smell like chocolate, but rather another brown substance.

[evets]

Chocolate?

[Puppage]

It's the way God wants it to be

After Katrina I might rethink that statement.

[kjo]

It is a very strange double standard isn't it? All religions and all peoples must be treated with the utmost respect except for Christians and Whites. Christmas can't be mentioned in December but we all must observe Ramadan with respect.

You know how I can always tell a minority has committed a crime on the news? The announcer will never report their description. With a white person they ALWAYS will.

[rollo tomasi]

Did NOLA get this from Scrappleface?

[Talking_Mouse]

No one cares that he is being anti-white. He is being anti-Latino. Thats what may get him, in the end.

[TNCMAXQ]

Sweet Jesus! I thought for sure this was going to be labeled satire or a parody.

Is he unhappy perhaps that blacks were disproportionately UNDER represented in the death count??

[Petronski]

Nagin is racist? Shocker!

[rvoitier]

Let's see if the mainstream mediocrity picks up on Nagin 'hearing God.'

I won't hold my breath.

[InsureAmerica]

i bet whitey is good enough to go there and spend his money, though........

[Neville72]

"I thought for sure this was satire."

It is! Nothin' in the Noggin Nagin is walking, talking satire.

[FerdieMurphy]

"...black people...

"... chocolate New Orleans...

This fool had better make up his "mind."

Next he'll be talking about licorice people.

[Clara Lou]

In the interests of accuracy, that's "Mayor Drowned Schoolbuses."

[Chili Girl]

excuse me?????

[Lockbar]

Attached is a pic of Nagin's brain scan:

[teacherwoes]

I bet the ACLU and other civil rights groups won't even touch this one.

[PilloryHillary]

Unbelievably racist comments!

[wallcrawlr]

sheesh this dude is so over.

worst mayor in America

[Cyber Liberty]

You can't have New Orleans no other way.

Can't....no...?

What is this, Chocobonics?

[MeanWestTexan]

Or at least chickory.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

whitey is good enough to go there and spend his money

No way! I prefer Lafayette!

[truthingod]

On a day that is supposed to remember the fight for people to come together and be one, the comments by Nagin again show the racial bias these so called leaders have. They would not be embraced by Mr. King with their brand of equality.

[GaltMeister]

He needs more deckhands for Nagin's Navy:

[domenad]

That's the stupidest quote I've ever read since Marion Barry's "The bitch set me up!"

[DCPatriot]

Reads racist to me.

Of course, without the black constituency, he's unemployed.

[arizonarachel]

Next he'll be talking about licorice people.

LOL! I almost choked on my carrot!

[gpapa]

A sideline story. Not so Rosy. No mention of "chocolate" in this story.

Three wounded in second-line shootings
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1137430904313980.xml

[antivenom]

So I guess he really meant he wants "milk chocolate and dark chocolate" only? LOL...no need to have any white chocolate! LMAO!

[RobbyS]

There's not a major elected black official, with few exceptions, who is not possessed by racist ideology.

[sweetliberty]

He speaks for God now?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

He just means that Brokeback Mountain is coming to town.

[CodeToad]

What a racist! NO was white French, not black ghetto!

[antivenom]

strawberry or cherry licorice?

[billhilly]

He makes one long for a Long.

[Minnesocold]