Ray Nagin needs to go

[lizziebith]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Is it the word "chocolate" that is offensive or the underlying principle? Because ever since the hurricane I've heard concerns that blacks will be redeveloped out of New Orleans.

Because if the word "chocolate" doesn't offend me when browsing porn I don't see why it should offend me when discussing economic redevelopment.

Maybe if he'd said:

"This is either going to be a chocolate city or a cracker city. It can't be both because as everybody knows chocolate doesn't go with crackers. Cookies, yes. Definitely cake. So maybe the chocolate could go with something like a cookie or cake, but I'm not really so sure that chocolate goes with fig newtons.

Maybe graham crackers. They have chocolate graham crackers don't they? Yeah, that's it. We'll develop in a way that joins together the chocolate in New Orleans with the crackers in New Orleans and I'll abdicate in favor of a Billy Graham mayorship. Everybody loves Billy Graham. Here's hoping that cracker don't die before we rebuild."

Surely that would have been a message of unity that everybody could rally around.

I love smores...

[wendybeth]

Thanks, Alex- now I'm hungry.

[Not Afraid]

I just ate more chocolate.

[Alex]

I'm not a big fan of chocolate. Please don't tell the NAACP.

[€uroMeinke]

I think I will replace the term "African-American" with "Chocolate" in all my future workplace interactions.

[Not Afraid]

Honey, SOMEONE in this household needs a viable job!

[€uroMeinke]

It's a damn shame my executive VP is no longer Chocolate - so what's the food/race term for Iranian?

[CoasterMatt]

Kabob!

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

Kabob!

But she's a woman - KaJanet?

[Stan4dSteph]

Falafel!
Hummus!
Tabbouleh!
Mayor McTerrorist!