The Mayor of New Orleans is a Fucking Moron

If you havn't heard about the "Chocolate" comments, you soon will (or are right now).

The mayor of New Orleans gave a speech on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and announced his intention to make sure New Orleans remained a "Chocolate City."

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

His attempt to retract the statement was even more assinine:

"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."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/17/nag...cnn_topstories

The Etymology of Nagin's "Chocolate City"

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The media world is buzzing with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's use of the phrase "Chocolate City" in describing his hope that all of his city's residents return, leaving it ethnically unchanged. While Nagin has qualified his remark by saying that he meant "chocolate" as in "chocolate milk" - mixing white and black - his phrasing echoed that of a powerful leader that came before him: Clinton.

That's George Clinton - songwriter, bandleader, and architect of the modern funk sound.
I don't know whether Nagin has heard the classic 70's era track "Chocolate City" by Parliament/Funkadelic, but Clinton was making a political point when he wrote the song and I suspect Nagin intended to make the same one.
Shallow media pundits tend to describe Southern states in particular as "red," but they're actually fields of red with blue stars on them. The blue stars are the cities, which by and large hold black majorities and are therefore strongly Democratic.
Clinton's song reflects the political power that African Americans and other minorities can wield when they gain the majority in any US city, North or South, as well as the discomfort and white flight that sometimes follows. As pianist Bernie Worrell vamps jazz chords and bassist Bootsy Collins vocalizes in a swooping basso profundo, the singer (rapper, actually) addresses the following words to Clinton's former home town (and mine) of Washington DC:
They still call it the White House
But that's a temporary condition, too.
Can you dig it, CC ("chocolate city")?
There's a lot of chocolate cities around
We've got Newark, we've got Gary
Somebody told me we got L.A.
And we're working on Atlanta
But you're the capital, CC
Hey, uh, we didn't get our forty acres and a mule
But we did get you, CC, heh, yeah
God bless CC and its vanilla suburbs
Ah, blood to blood
Ah, players to ladies
The last percentage count was eighty
You don't need the bullet when you got the ballot
Chocolate city
Are you with me out there?
And when they come to march on ya
Tell 'em to make sure they got their James Brown pass
And don't be surprised if Ali is in the White House
Reverend Ike, Secretary of the Treasure
Richard Pryor, Minister of Education
Stevie Wonder, Secretary of FINE arts
And Miss Aretha Franklin, the First Lady
Are you out there, CC?
A chocolate city is no dream
It's my piece of the rock and I dig you, CC
It's a song that makes light of racial conflict, playfully but with an edge - a chorus of people sounding like they just walked in off the street keeps chanting "Gainin' on ya!" The singer mutters asides like "movin' in all around ya" and "can't you feel my breath up around your neck?" The song ends, "Just got New York, I'm told ..."

[Ugly Bastard]

Hehe that might be the worst attempt at talking your way out of something I've ever seen in my life.

[Deadly Crescent Kick]

LOL

that's right up there w/ jessie jackson's "hymietown"