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."

[getitright]

Am I the only one who thought that Depp looked a LOT like Pelosi in Willy Wonka?

[admiralsn]

Just reverse it:
"Our town to be lily-white again."

Some local New Orleansianian who opposes Nagin should come forward and make that point precisely, What absurdity he is still relevant.

[Doogle]

I guess the lower right corner is the Ninth Ward.

...can't be..it's not wet

Doogle

[rvoitier]

alnick,

I hadn't heard him make a comment about F's statement. I suspect he was told to shut up about that because it would've just given critics more ammo.

[Tzimisce]

It's racist.

Oh wait, it can't be racist - he's black...

[B Knotts]

What a racist nut.

[Drew68]

The announcer will never report their description.

I always get a kick out of news media that will report on a suspect being wanted for a crime and they'll give every last detail down to the 1/4" scar on his chin but they won't tell you what color his skin is --unless he's white.

[Howlin]

lol

[gpapa]

From the article. "Three people were wounded by gunfire Sunday afternoon on Orleans Avenue after a second-line parade that attracted thousands of people, including hurricane-displaced residents who were back in town for a day of celebration."

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Second line is a tradition in brass band parades in New Orleans, Louisiana. The term is also used for an associated traditional dance style.

Music is an important part of most public events in traditional New Orleans culture. Processions with music include the periodic parades of benevolent societies, social aid & pleasure clubs, Carnival krewes, and of course the famous funerals with music, often called "jazz funerals".

The "first line" consisted of the people who were an integral part of the ceremony, such as the members of the club or krewe, or family and friends of the deceased at a funeral. The "second line" originally refered to people who were attracted to the music. Traditionally such people would follow behind the "first line". (In the final decades of the 20th century it became more common for some such onlookers who joined the procession to mix in or even get ahead of the band and first line, behavior considred a social faux-pas by older New Orleanians.)

To follow such processions because one enjoyed the music came to be known as to "second line" or to be "second lining". As music is tradtionally participatory, not something one listens to without moving, uninhibited dancing at processions also came to be called second lining.

The magazine of the New Orleans Jazz Club "The Second Line" took its name from the tradition in 1949

[hollywood]

This is great news!!!! This just might be the beginning of the end of Political Correctness as we all know it!!!! Wooooo-hooooo!!!!! /sarcasm

[Emile]

Good point. Nagin's problems, though, are only beginning. He now has to deal with his constituency from the Lower Ninth who are mad that he's not letting them back into their destroyed homes. Many of them are apparently insisting that, regardless of mud or mold or disease or destruction, they be allowed to continue to live in the same place. Not somewhere else in the city, but the same place -- non-negotiable, and undoubtedly on the federal taxpayer's dime.

Now Nagin has to deal with them without the buffer of the business community that helped put him into office. He's just effectively communicated to them that they're not welcome, that he and his African-Americans will rebuild NO themselves, thank you.

Good luck Ray. I wouldn't let your demolition people get within gunshot range of those houses, if I were you.

[rock_lobsta]

How ironic. If it weren't for the white voters in N.O., Nagin would never have been elected Mayor. Pre-K, whites in the city generally gave him passing marks in his performance. Let's see what happens now that he's bitten the hand that fed him.

[LK44-40]

"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.

Hey, let's not be knockin' Rev. Pat.

He may be mostly a fruitcake but he did -- to an astonished and contemptuous public reaction -- suggesting whacking Hugo Chevez.

I've been reading that Hugo and that atomic nutjob in Iran are becoming best buds. It's making me wonder if old Pat mightn't be worth listening to from time to time.

[Howlin]

He just can't keep his mouth shut:

Addressing a business forum in October, Nagin put the issue bluntly: "How do I ensure that New Orleans is not overrun by Mexican workers?" After civil-rights groups denounced him, he clarified that he had meant only that residents should be hired first.


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10218343/site/newsweek/

[RVN Airplane Driver]

I always get a kick out of news media that will report on a suspect being wanted for a crime and they'll give every last detail down to the 1/4" scar on his chin but they won't tell you what color his skin is --unless he's white

They usually don't have to if their name is printed!!!

[Paul_N_Lakeside]

Head meet nail!

[untrained skeptic]

Dr. Martin Luther King fought for equality.

Nagin is a racist.

Nagin using King's birthday as a forum to present his racism is appalling.

[Cyber Liberty]

The affected ignorance of politicians drives me nuts. This guy knows how to speak, he really does...he's speaking down to somebody.

[Emile]

Also not welcome in New Orleans:

[TX Bluebonnet]

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

I suspect that Latinos are what he's really worried about.