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NPR calls Washington 'Chocolate City': Report focusing on racial make-up leaves bitter
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| 2/16/11
| Joe Kovacs
Posted on 02/16/2011 4:22:14 PM PST by Nachum
In the days following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin came under fire for publicly saying he wanted to rebuild his city as a "Chocolate New Orleans."
Now, a report by National Public Radio is using similar terminology, calling the nation's capital "chocolate," but noting a change in its flavor.
The article, titled, "D.C., Long 'Chocolate City,' Becoming More Vanilla," by Alex Kellogg, opens by stating: "For decades Washington, D.C., was known affectionately as 'Chocolate City' to many black Americans, because it was predominantly African-American.
"Most big U.S. cities are getting browner as more blacks, Hispanics and Asians move in. Washington, by contrast, fell to just 53 percent black in 2009, down from a peak of 71 percent in 1970. That's partly because D.C. has quickly become one of the most expensive cities in America, and one of the only cities in the U.S. where property values continue to rise despite the economic downturn."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chocolate; city; npr; washington
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Full Title: NPR calls Washington 'Chocolate City': Report focusing on racial make-up leaves bitter taste in some mouths
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posted on
02/16/2011 4:22:23 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Please post the “Thats Racist” picture here.
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posted on
02/16/2011 4:23:23 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Nachum
The Republicans in congress should use this incident to de-fund it.
That is if they had the guts to do it.
I know Bauchman would.
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posted on
02/16/2011 4:23:53 PM PST
by
GraceG
To: Nachum
If a Republican said something like this they would be hounded to death.
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posted on
02/16/2011 4:26:03 PM PST
by
Ev Reeman
To: Nachum
What a bunch of racist bastards! The more they focus on race just proves it. I don’t give a crap what color anyone is, and I think a lot of FReepers would say the same. What I care about is what they believe religiously, politically and socially.
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posted on
02/16/2011 4:26:15 PM PST
by
vpintheak
(Democrats: Robbing humans of their dignity 1 law at a time)
To: Nachum
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posted on
02/16/2011 4:26:33 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
To: Nachum
40.6% white...54% black...2009
And NEVER heard chocolate city until Nagin
To: Nachum
Please let congress defund NPR.
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posted on
02/16/2011 4:31:24 PM PST
by
stevio
(God, guns, guts.)
To: Sacajaweau
Everyone should have this in their collection...
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posted on
02/16/2011 4:32:15 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
To: Nachum
It’s only a matter of time until blacks become a minority in D.C.
To: vpintheak
I think Freepers would all agree that it is more iomportant what is in a person’s heart, mind and soul than what color they are, what creed they follow, what nationality they are, or what race they are.
To: Ev Reeman
What is Trent Lott’s take on the comment? Did the NPR run down to Louisiana and get a sound bite from David Duke?
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posted on
02/16/2011 4:37:20 PM PST
by
pointsal
To: WashingtonSource
Hope you don’t think having a white homosexual majority is going to be an improvement.
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posted on
02/16/2011 4:40:55 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Nachum
Ironically, most black citizens in Chocolate cities would much rather live in safe,secure Vanilla neighborhoods.
To: Nachum
scratchin my head...I don’t remember nagin coming under fire for that.
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posted on
02/16/2011 4:53:57 PM PST
by
stylin19a
("Marine Sniper - You can run, but you'll just die tired!")
To: BenLurkin
But the big question is, are they still the vanilla suburbs?
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posted on
02/16/2011 5:03:23 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: stylin19a
Yes, Nagin’s comments stirred up a bit of dust, mostly because the media was reporting *everything* out of New Orleans at the time. Try searching “Nagin apologizes”.
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posted on
02/16/2011 5:04:07 PM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: COBOL2Java
They want to keep DC majority black? Here's a win-win: Most of the white influx has been due to the size of the federal government growing exponentially in the last decade or so. Gut the bureaucracy, blacks get their Hell on Earth back, Marion Barry can go back to being Mayor-For-Life, and the rest of America can live like free men and women. Sounds pretty magnanimous to me.
"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."
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posted on
02/16/2011 5:42:49 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!!)
To: Sacajaweau
And NEVER heard chocolate city until NaginIt's the kind of things not said when Whitey's not around.
Like in "church."
To: Trailerpark Badass
Man, I butchered that one.
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