Mayor Nagin is Losing It

The Mayor of the former great city of New Orleans should hire some Oompa Loompas for his Chocolate City.

From CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/17/nagin.city/

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — Mayor Ray Nagin on Tuesday apologized for urging residents to rebuild a “chocolate New Orleans” and saying, “You can’t have New Orleans no other way.”

“I’m really sorry that some people took that they way they did, and that was not my intention,” the mayor said. “I say everybody’s welcome.”

Even if you are vanilla or other flavors I suppose.

Nagin added that he never should have used the term “chocolate.”

Across the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged city, many voiced their displeasure with the mayor’s Monday remarks at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech. One Web site even began peddling T-shirts showing Nagin with a top hat along with the caption “Willy Nagin and the Chocolate Factory.”

Resident Alex Gerhold called Nagin’s remarks “stupid” and “pitiful.”

“He used the wrong dairy product to describe us. We’re more Neapolitan, not chocolate,” Gerhold said. “It doesn’t do the city any kind of justice.”

Nagin’s remarks fall into a line of inappropriate statements the mayor has made, said civil rights attorney Tracie Washington. She said she is “done trying to figure out what our mayor is going to say off the cuff on any given day.”

“It was an unfortunate goofball statement for him to make,” Washington said. “All it has really done is make the city look just a little bit more ridiculous.”

The mayor, who is up for re-election this year, publicly apologized for his remarks at the beginning of a Bring New Orleans Back Commission meeting. He said he was trying only to encourage many of the city’s displaced poor population to return.

Nagin really hasquite a bit to worry about. If the city remains “non-chocolate,” and the residents are angered about his horrible response to Katrina and his ensuing comments, he might lose the election. If he can get enough “Chocolate” people back in town before the election, maybe his job would be safe. However, he may wish to take the same tack that Mayor Marion Barry of Washington DC took in regards to Katrina- Declare “Bitch set me up!”

On Monday, Nagin said God wanted New Orleans to be predominantly black and said he didn’t care what the predominantly white Uptown section of the city had to say about it.

“I don’t care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day,” he said. “This city will be a majority African-American city. It’s the way God wants it to be.”

I guess God wanted the city to be a lake too.

After the statement, he insisted he wasn’t being divisive.

“How do you make chocolate? You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about,” he said. “New Orleans was a chocolate city before Katrina. It is going to be a chocolate city after. How is that divisive? It is white and black working together, coming together and making something special.”

See the video here, and watch how Nagin begins the above statement by being rude to the reporter.
http://www.wdsu.com/video/6162103/detail.html

Nagin says, “Do you know anything about chocolate?”

Reporter: “I’m asking you?”

Nagin: I’m asking you! Do you know anything about chocolate? How do you make chocolate?”

I can’t watch that video without laughing thinking about the delicious drink that is New Orleans! Also notice that Ray Nagin got his school buses working again.