Nagin proves himself to be an Idiot, says Johnny Damon

I couldn't believe it. I had to slow the car down and turn the radio up when I heard this.

In a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech, Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans, said something that made me shake my head in disbelief. On the day where we celebrate the man who said:
"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" Ray Nagin stands up and dishonors his memory.

"I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day," Nagin said in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech. "This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be." (CNN Article Link)
Holy candy wrappers, Batman! Even Willy Wonka could tell you that rebuilding a "chocolate New Orleans" would be a bad idea that close to the equator. It wouldn't last through the summer! How wasteful.

Or, maybe he was just listening to a lot of funk music lately? Getting Parilament confused with local city government, perhaps? Chocolate City. Mayor, you are a hoot.


Mayor, will there be a Vanilla Sky in Chocolate City?

The best part was his explanation on what he meant. When pressed that his remarks were devisive and racist he explained, "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." Mayor, what ARE you talking about.

Mayor Nagin is up for re-election in April.