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Posted on 01/17/2006 12:49:17 PM PST by george76
In a further clarification of yesterday’s remarks that a rebuilt New Orleans would be a “chocolate” city, Mayor Ray Nagin today said he’s planning to recruit Hershey Foods to establish a candy manufacturing plant in the hurricane-ravaged region.
The Democrat mayor’s latest clarification builds on yesterday’s explanation that his remarks are not racist because chocolate is made with dark chocolate and white milk forming “a delicious drink.”
“We’re in the very, very early stages of discussions with Hershey,” Mr. Nagin said, “It’s still in the pre-meeting, pre-phone call stage. But that’s what this chocolate city concept is all about.
It’s literally chocolate, rather than chocolate as a metaphor for something else. It’s edible chocolate. It really is.”
The mayor said he’s long been intrigued by the possibility of transitioning New Orleans’ economy from one “reliant upon fickle fads in human debauchery” to something more stable, like chocolate.
“Ever since I saw the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I’ve thought, ‘That’s New Orleans’,” Mayor Nagin said. “and I thought, ‘I’m Willy Wonka’. ”
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, who yesterday told a group of African-Americans that Republicans have run the House of Representatives like “a plantation”, said she would help Mayor Nagin secure federal funding to turn the Louisiana Gulf coast into “a chocolate version of Silicon Valley.”
You have reminded me of a Halloween party many years ago where a couple I know came dressed as candy bars. She was a Mounds Bar, he was an Almond Joy.
You'll shoot your eye out!
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A friend and I took his daughters to Hershey Park in Pennsylvania for their 13th birthdays back in the early 90's. It was cold and rainy so we ducked into a restaurant for some hot chocolate.
We're at HERSHEY park, mind... I looked at the cocoa packet, and it was NESTLE chocolate. Unbelievable.
Washingtonpost.com: Reflections on Chocolate City
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/library/dc/dc6898/funk.htm
ROFMAO!
"It's time for all of us good folk to stand up and say, `We're tired of the violence. We're tired of black folks killing each other,'" Nagin said.
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It's not color. It's life's purpose and all coming together for the comon good.
Nagin seems hung up on skin color as a determinate factor for what's acceptable for his NO plantation vision. Are white people's genetic value and existance only acceptable as it serves his racist idea for the 'chocolate' mix?
What's next, maybe he'll desinate drinking fountains for only white's.
Is there a movie in this? Mayor Ray and the Chocolate Factory?
What is this?
(signed in real ink)
ROFLMAO
Hegemony Cricket....what a great freeper name.
That is awesome.
I hear Hubig's Pies, the praline makers and the Roman Candy guy have filed for an injunction.
It seems to me that he doesn't need any of our white tax money.
Garwsh - THANKS! :-)
They already built one in San Francisco.
L O L
Ray Nagin: Uh, yeah- we're asking Hershey for help! Yeah, that's what I meant!
Hershey spokesman: Ray who?
Maybe David Duke will say something about the use of vanilla and crackers in the rebuilding of NO.
In related news, Vanilla Ice's career is still dead.
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