Posted on 01/16/2006 3:15:27 PM PST by jazzo
NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.
"Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country," Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day.
"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."
Nagin also promised that New Orleans will be a "chocolate" city again. Many of the city's black neighborhoods were heavily damaged by Katrina.
"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," the mayor said. "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."
Nagin described an imaginary conversation with King, the late civil rights leader.
"I said, `What is it going to take for us to move on and live your dream and make it a reality?' He said, `I don't think that we need to pay attention any more as much about other folks and racists on the other side.' He said, `The thing we need to focus on as a community — black folks I'm talking about — is ourselves.'"
Nagin said he also asked: "Why is black-on-black crime such an issue? Why do our young men hate each other so much that they look their brother in the face and they will take a gun and kill him in cold blood?"
The reply, Nagin said, was: "We as a people need to fix ourselves first."
Nagin also said King would have been dismayed with black leaders who are "most of the time tearing each other down publicly for the delight of many."
A day earlier, gunfire erupted at a parade to commemorate King's birthday. Three people were wounded in the daylight shooting amid a throng of mostly black spectators, but police said there were no immediate suspects or witnesses.
LOL!
That mayor of New Orleans, what's his name, Gonad the Barbarian?
It's even worse than you told me.
Makes sense. "Life is like a big box of chocolates...".
Where was that shrimp company located?
I take offense at that post. John Paul was human but please don't try to use him that way.
No, just NO, and specifically, YOU, Mr. Nagin.
He is mad at you, Ray.
For not using the buses.
LVM
(Forgive me if I laugh at this now because of Mayor Nagin's comment.)
I can't believe that this isn't satire.
The sequel, is already in the works: "The Chocolate People vs The Sugar Daddies".
I have always thought God didn't like people in South Florida either . ..
All those hurricanes prove it?
Yes,Robertson said basically the same thing and both he and Nagin are idiots.
No, Nagin is just nuts.
Not to mention stupid.
He prob'ly doesn't know what the word means.
This just makes me sick. Dr. King wanted a society where the character of a person mattered more than the color of his or her skin. Comments like this from Nagin indicate that we are not getting any closer to that ideal.
Mayor Ray Nagin suggested ......
-----Anything that Nagin has to say is either going to be ignorant or racist. Either way, whatever he "suggests" in the article is nothing more than a crock of s**t that he and his "chocolate" (his words, not mine) buddies have made up to sound like they are more educated than they are. God is the one that saved his sorry ass and he better be thankful for that and step up to the plate and take the blame for his stupidity.
You wouldn't believe the explosive reaction to this on local talk radio. It is being understood as the racist remark that it is.
Levees and floods aren't the worst thing that can be imagined, that would be a majority white city! Can anyone imagine a politician calling for a ' vanilla' city?
Ray is trying to finesse his way out by saying ' how do you make chocolate? White milk and chocolate..."
Yeah- right, Ray. I watched the whole speech at the rally and he meant it just as it sounds- New Orleans MUST be a black city-because that is how God wants it.
Believe me, we get the message loud and clear- he'd rather not have whites back, but he won't say that plainly- of course.
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