And another thing.
I completely forgot about our favorite mayor Ray Nagin who gave the best MLK Day speech in history. His main points were;
-God is mad at America as well as black people.
-God punished us Americans (as well as the black people in New Orleans) with hurricane after hurricane.
-New Orleans will be rebuilt and will be a "Chocolate CIty"
-God wants it to be a "Chocolate City"
-When saying "Chocolate City" he means predominantly African-American.
-He dosen't care what those Uptown folks (mainly white people) say.
And as a bonus had an imaginary conversation with Martin Luther King, jr. That last bit was disturbing, but inspiring...to someone. The best part of the entire ceremony was when a reporter called him out on saying New Orleans will be rebuilt and become an African-American city on MLK Day when King's dream was all for races to pretty much be in the same proximity of each other and the mayor's remarks was simply that he meant mixing dark chocolate with white milk to get this "chocolate" that he speaks of.
Nice save, Nagin. Nice save.
I admired Mr. Nagin at first. During the Katrina fiasco with FEMA, he was on t.v. saying "Get your asses over here". Now he is blurting comments that could possibly be career ending on national television for little people like me to blog about. Where did we go wrong, Nagin?
I'm not giving up on him yet. He's had a stressful year. But, I'm watching you, Nagin. Oh yes. I'm watching.
On a different note. Amazing what goodies you find on the internet.
Sure Condi.
posted by Jas @ 1:32 AM
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