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2006/1/17-18 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:41404 Activity:kinda low
1/17    Ray Nagin: God is angry with america, and God wants New Orleans to be
        black.  Welcome to the Pat Robertson club.
        http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4622038.stm
        http://www.bayoubuzz.com/articles.aspx?aid=5994
        \_ Transcript of the speach:
           http://csua.org/u/eno
           I don't see "God wants NO to be black."
           The "God did this" claim is stupid, as ever, but you're putting
           words in his mouth.
           \_ The Bayou Buzz link says "This city will be a majority African
              American city. It´s the way God wants it to be."
           \_ "This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way
               God wants it to be."
              \_ Majority Aftican American != black.  NO was "majority African
                 American" before.  Misquoting him as saying he wants NO to
                 be "black" is race-baiting
                 \_ No one said "all black"
                    \_ By misquoting/miscontexting, this is what is
                    \_ By misquoting/miscontexting, this is exactly what is
                       suggested.
                       \_ I didn't get that.
                          \_ "majority black" vs. "black" doesn't strike you
                             as a distinction?
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Printable version US mayor defends 'chocolate' city Mayor Ray Nagin marches in a New Orleans MLK Day parade New Orleans held a parade for Martin Luther King Day New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has sought to clarify comments he made on Martin Luther King Day to the effect that New Orleans should be a "chocolate" city. He said he had not meant that it should be an all-black metropolis, asking: "How do you make chocolate? "You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. He also said last year's hurricanes were a sign God was angry with the US. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country," Mr Nagin said on Monday. "Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretences." We're not taking care of ourselves," said Mr Nagin, who is black. He was giving a speech to mark the US holiday celebrating its most famous civil rights leader. New Orleans was about two-thirds black before Hurricane Katrina caused many residents to flee last year. Some advocates fear planned reconstruction will not encourage poor black residents to return, leaving the city more white than it was before.
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It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans -- the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans, and I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are, this city will be chocolate at the end of the day. Mayor Ray Nagin, January 16, 2006 Yesterday, in a speech at a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day rally in New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin made some stupefying and inappropriate remarks, claiming that God was mad at America due to "us being in Iraq under false pretenses" and that he was sending us "hurricane after hurricane after hurricane" to show his displeasure. Despite the controversial comments about God, Iraq and hurricanes, his call for a "chocolate New Orleans" received the most attention, mostly because of the racial nature of the comments. The remarks might very well have done more to harm the comeback of the Crescent City than any of Nagin's other boneheaded actions since Katrina hit the city. At a time when New Orleans needs to unite, black and white, more than ever, Nagin has divided the city at its most critical juncture. Nagin's speech is another example of his lack of leadership, his inappropriate rhetoric and his unsuitability to lead this city during this challenging post-Katrina period. After hearing his remarks, many New Orleans voters will question whether a leader who uses such inflammatory rhetoric and puts his foot in this mouth so often is qualified to lead this great, historic city for another four years. Yesterday's speech also continues a recent Nagin administration trend of heightening racial tensions. In June, Nagin's handpicked Police Chief Eddie Compass hired a Nation of Islam leader, Dennis Muhammad, to conduct community sensitivity training within the New Orleans Police Department. It led many to question how a Nation of Islam leader could teach white, Catholic and Jewish officers about sensitivity, considering the racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic remarks of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. After Katrina hit New Orleans, Nagin retreated to Dallas and met with Farrakhan. Soon thereafter, the Nation of Islam leader spoke of the supposed "craters" beneath the levees in New Orleans and claimed that they were "blown up" to save white people and flood black neighborhoods. This ridiculous theory was an insult to the thousands of white families flooded by Katrina in Lakeview and other parts of New Orleans and was not supported by one scintilla of evidence. It also did not jive with statistics released by the state morgue in St. While the population of New Orleans pre-Katrina was 68% African-American, only 48% of the storm's fatalities were African-American. 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