Please, Please stop talking
I have no more strength to get outraged anymore.
If you haven’t heard yet, and you will, Mayor Nagin is at it again. Last night at a Rainbow Coalition meeting, the mayor, OUR mayor, went down the chocolate covered road yet again. And yeah, he’s channeling God again to tell us why Katrina destroyed the city. And everything that went wrong is the Federal Governments fault. We aren’t responsible for ourselves I guess.
I can’t handle much more of this. Between the constant mis-treatment of those of us fighting to save this city that live in the city to the rampant fraud with FEMA to the morons in Baton Rouge who spend every penny they can get their worthless nicotine stained fingers on, it’s just driving me to a point of no return. Sorry if this is a downer or I come across as the doomsayer but can’t someone, anyone just tell OUR mayor to shut the f**k up?
Read the story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/southsouthwest/chi-0606140166jun14,1,5247541.story
Just some quotes:
Before Katrina, Nagin said, New Orleans was a city of “haves and have nots,” with one of the highest rates of poverty, one of the worst public school systems in the nation and a high percentage of young males involved in crime.
“Then, you know, God looked down on that and said, `You know, I need to change that’,” Nagin said. “And then Katrina happened.
“My white-chocolate friends, come on down,” Nagin said. “My medium-chocolate friends, come on down. And my dark-chocolate friends, definitely come on down.”
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Man, he was just kidding around, making fun of his previous comments.
Seems like there are more important things to be pissed off about. He can talk chocolate this and rainbow that all fucking day, I don’t care, as long as he also fixes the NOPD and the schools and the fire department too.
Bring the crime rate back down and the guy can dance down Canal Street in a clown wig and a G-string and I will stand up and applaud him. I’ll even stick a twenty in his garter.
I don’t understand why God has to somehow be involved in anything really, but especially a hurricane. If I eat spoiled food and get sick, it isn’t that God is somehow punishing me for my use of profanity; it’s just that I ate some bad food. And, traditionally, isn’t the devil given credit for bad shit happening? What’s that guy been up to lately? At any rate, If you live below sea level in an area prone to massive storms, shit’s going to happen.
It scares me, and always have, that people with strong religious beliefs tend to attain power and then use their disconnected, erroneous view of the world to guide their decision making. I’m a big fan of the philosopher king idea.
I am more discouraged by his constant use of God teaching us a lesson than I am the choco crap. And something to think about Ray is, why isn’t he HERE fixing the crap you wrote about instead of chillin in Chi-Town with Jessie, Maxine Waters and the rest?
I’m a former resident. I have to wonder why God allowed him to be re-elected.
Again, JP, it wasn’t God, it was an uninformed, frightened public that’s afraid of change.
New Orleans clearly wanted an ineffectual, outspoken racist as mayor and that’s exactly what they got.
Fine by me - Down with Whitey!!
At least we’re getting a few more years of national attention in the form of poorly thought out, embarassing sound-bites.
**I am white by the way - and half joking.**
Jack’s half white!!
Laurie
barely.
Now, I’m confused!
Laurie