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Home Front: Culture Wars
New Orleans Mayor Says God Mad at U.S.
2006-01-17
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that ``God is mad at America'' and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.

``Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country,'' Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day.
Actually, God was mad at you; he just has a broad aim.
``Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves.''

Nagin also promised that New Orleans will be a ``chocolate'' city again. Many of the city's black neighborhoods were heavily damaged by Katrina. ``It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans,'' the mayor said. ``This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.''
Of course, one could imagine the furor if a big-city mayor anywhere in this country had called for said city to be a 'vanilla' one.
Posted by:Steve White

#20  actually, it's Brown Sugar, baby
Posted by: Mick Jagger   2006-01-17 23:19  

#19  Is it okay for whites to call blacks "chocolate?"
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-01-17 20:58  

#18  From what I saw, I'd have gone with God being mad at school buses. Look how many of them drowned.

davemac
Posted by: Claviter Omuque3310   2006-01-17 20:53  

#17  he seems to have all of the political and administrative skills of an autistic hamster.

After my dealings today with Comcast, that seems to be mandatory for cable employees
Posted by: steve   2006-01-17 20:48  

#16  Nagin may have run a cable franchise in N.O. before becoming Mayor, but he seems to have all of the political and administrative skills of an autistic hamster.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2006-01-17 19:21  

#15  Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses.

I'm no theologian, and I certainly don't presume to speak for the Almighty, but I'm guessing He is rather pleased that Saddam and his hellspawn kids are no longer running around loose, stirring up trouble.
Posted by: SteveS   2006-01-17 15:53  

#14  At least Ol' Ray mentioned that black communities were tearing themselves apart with violence and not taking care of themselves.

Even a blind sow finds an acorn now and then...
Posted by: Whinemp Unogum4891   2006-01-17 15:21  

#13  "Surely God is mad at America."
"Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses."
"But surely he is upset at black America also."
"It's the way God wants it to be."

Apparently God has told Ray "Noah" Nagin a whole lot of things, but he forgot to tell him to build an ark.

Posted by: Darrell   2006-01-17 15:19  

#12  It's a marimba band Ray, get used to it!
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-01-17 14:12  

#11  I guess it was also God who decided to ignore the city's evacuation plan completely and just play it by ear in the face of a Category 4 hurricane, leaving thousands of people stuck in the city and dozens of buses idle in soon-to-be flooded city lots.

Clearly Nagin is the innocent victim here and needs to be re-elected. :-P
Posted by: Dar   2006-01-17 13:47  

#10  Insanity - Doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-01-17 12:02  

#9  Once you get past the racism and the Pat Robertson theology, what he's basically saying is, "God is mad at us, yet wants us to rebuild NO exactly the way it was before he smote us." I would be embarrassed to open my mouth if I were as ignorant as Ray Nagin.
Posted by: BH   2006-01-17 11:44  

#8  Sorry, D.C. already has that designation.
Posted by: Pappy   2006-01-17 11:04  

#7  Chocolate... with nuts.
Posted by: BH   2006-01-17 10:31  

#6  How about a "fudge ripple" city, Ray?
Posted by: tu3031   2006-01-17 09:28  

#5  How nice of him to make such a racist statement on MLK day.
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2006-01-17 09:24  

#4  No 250 Billion for you!!!
Posted by: God   2006-01-17 09:20  

#3  wouldn't his logic also imply that God was angry at the mayor of New O?
Posted by: mhw   2006-01-17 08:19  

#2  Ray's worried all the people who left and found out how cities really work elsewhere, won't come back and re-elect him. Plus, a large hispanic population is reportedly moving in to fill the void left by the departing blacks.
Posted by: Steve   2006-01-17 07:39  

#1  When Pat Robertson says things like that, everybody makes fun of him.
Posted by: Mike   2006-01-17 06:20  

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