Comments on: Nagin revises “chocolate city” comment

By: C

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 08:51:40 +0000

Nagin is a freaking fool. No matter how you try to justify his words, they WERE racist remarks. Not only os he a horrible leader as he proved to be during the storm, but he doesn’t know how to speak publicly. When one is a politician one needs to THINK before one speaks. He said what he wanted to say and there is no changing it now. How does he know what God wants, can he read God’s mind. The man is an idiot and needs to be kicked out of office before he makes the city look like crap across the rest of the nation, again.

By: cuge

cuge — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:49:52 +0000

Guess we can’t all just get along.

What does this mean for all those Ovaltine commercials / drinkers?

By: Steve Skubinna

Steve Skubinna — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:17:21 +0000

You know, if you mix bullshit with milk it doesn’t produce a delicious drink. I am reminded of my favorite line from King of the Hill:

“Just when I think you’ve said the stupidest thing ever, you keep talkin!”

By: PCD

PCD — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:44:09 +0000

benning,

I’m still working on getting a steady supply of strawberries and cucumbers.

By: benning

benning — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:13:18 +0000

If Jesse and Al had anything to say regarding this, it would be to support Nagin against all you Racist, Bigoted, right-wing, Republican hate-mongers.

You oughta know that by now. I’m only saying this as a Racist, Bigoted, right-wing, Republican hate-monger.

Does this mean Whites can’t have chocolate anymore?

By: Lorica

Lorica — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:07:25 +0000

These are the stupid remarks of a desperate man. He realizes that due to his incompentancy he lost his white vote so he is looking to get back some of his chocolate chips. I have heard some of the testimony of some of the folk displaced by the disaster in New Orleans, and those folk don’t want to go back. Many of them talk about the hell they were living in before the disaster. It will be interesting to see what happens in the future to New Orleans. – Lorica

By: Mike Veeshir

Mike Veeshir — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:28:44 +0000

OT, but you can get a podcast of the Hitchens/Ritter debate at the Tarrytown Music Hall website. Click on 'podcast' on the lower left.

By: tommy in nyc

tommy in nyc — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:14:42 +0000

Well it was a pretty brain-dead comment. The only possible justifaction for such a remark was that because of the massive damage to the predominatly African-American parts of the city compared to the Downtown French-Quarter but he really should’ve kept his trap shut. That and many former black NOLA residents won’t bother coming back. Which’ll probably change change the racial make-up of the city compared to pre-Katrina. So in effect NOLA will never be the same which shouldn’t suprise anybody.

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:06:41 +0000

“There was a simpler way of expressing this, Mr. Nagin, ya know.”

I think he should have avoided the metaphors and said clearly that he hopes the reconstruction doesn’t disproportionately leave out some New Orleans citizens.

By: Baklava

Baklava — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:05:21 +0000

In his original speech he didn’t just use the word chocolate but his next sentence was talking about New Orleans being a majority african-amrerican city.

Now he’s acting like it should be 50/50 and that’s how you make chocolate? Puhlease.

By: PCD

PCD — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:32:54 +0000

Nagin is toast. The poor boy is barely bright enough to recognize that his days on the gravy train are over. He moved to Dallas. He’s not going to be the big cheese there either.

By: camojack

camojack — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:02:21 +0000

The jack@$$ isn’t even able to “spin” his racist drivel well…

By: Jack Deth

Jack Deth — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:39:03 +0000

Ray will probably driving a bus after Louisiana’s delayed and re-scheduled elections.

He was way too little way too late during and after Katrina. Too bad his much needed constituency has left and are nowhere to be found.

Jack.

By: scmommy

scmommy — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:22:07 +0000

ttyler5, he couldnt clean the city up before the storm, he certainly can’t, and has know intention of making it safe now. IF he does, then he can’t blame Bush for all of his problems.

By: ttyler5

ttyler5 — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:30:25 +0000

Too bad Nagin doesn’t know anything about cleaning up a city and making it a safe, decent place to live …