Lots of water like chocolate
Interestingly, while Nagin complains about all the American deaths in the war in Iraq, New Orleans had a much higher violent death rate in 2006 than Iraq did! (1)
Newsback,
17 Jan 2006,
New Orleans mayor sorry for 'chocolate' remarkThe mayor of New Orleans apologized on Tuesday for saying the hurricane-ravaged city would be rebuilt as a "chocolate" city and for blaming the storm on the wrath of God over U.S. involvement in Iraq.
The "chocolate" remark, which Mayor Ray Nagin made in a speech on Monday, struck a nerve, as racial tensions and concerns loom over proposed plans to rebuild New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina.
Several of the hardest-hit neighborhoods were mostly black, and many residents have expressed fears that those areas will not be rebuilt while those with more white residents may be. Before the August 29 storm, New Orleans was about 70 percent black.
There's white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate, so what's the problem? Perhaps that's what he meant - that there would be all kinds of chocolate people in the new city? I don't think so. Well, Hillary makes the "plantation" comment (2) and Harry Belafonte rants about Bush being the greatest tyrant in the world (3); what's going on? Where is the black leadership condemning these idiotic remarks?
I think we should all go to the nearest Carvel and ask for a New Orleans' Chocolate: A scoop of vanilla, a scoop of strawberry, chocolate syrup with a blast of Army Core of Engineers pralines.
And if you are looking for a link to some Hurricane Katrina Relief, look elsewhere; certainly the last thing we should be doing is enticing all those chocolate sprinkles to come back and rebuild inside the next catastrophe zone. God emptied that human spittoon, let's leave it alone.
More Nagin Chocolate Bars:
ENDNOTES
(1):
The Times Picayune, N.O. murders hit 161 for year
Three New Year's Eve killings brought the city's murder total to 161 for 2006, a figure New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley touted Monday as the lowest total in 30 years.
Despite Riley's sunny appraisal, however, the murder rate -- when figured per capita -- exceeds that of years immediately preceding Hurricane Katrina, and puts New Orleans homicide rate at more than 4½ times the national average for cities of similar size, according to statistics compiled for the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports.
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If figured for the 200,000 residents estimated by a Louisiana Recovery Authority door-to-door survey released in November, the per capita rate would increase to 81 murders per 100,000 people....
Meanwhile in Iraq...
MSNBC, 16,273 deaths reported in Iraq in 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Government officials on Monday reported that 16,273 Iraqi civilians, soldiers and police died violent deaths in 2006, a figure larger than an independent Associated Press count for the year by more than 2,500.
The tabulation by the Iraqi ministries of Health, Defense and Interior, showed that 14,298 civilians, 1,348 police and 627 soldiers were killed in the violence that raged in the country last year.
In a country of 26,783,000 that comes out to a 2006 violent death rate of 61 per 100,000 residents. If you figure just civilian deaths in Iraq in 2006 you get a violent death rate of 53 per 100,000.
Ergo: The Chocolate City Tops Iraq in 2006 Violent Death Rates!
(2):
CNN, Clinton's 'plantation' remark draws fire
Sen. Hillary Clinton drew criticism Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech in which she told a mostly black audience at a Harlem church that Republican leaders have run the House "like a plantation" and the Bush administration will go down as "one of the worst" in U.S. history.
(3):
Blog Critics, Harry Belafonte Goes Bananas in a Banana Republic
002 Harry Belafonte called Colin Powell a 'House Slave'. In August of this year he called African-Americans in the government 'black tyrants', compared the Bush administration to Nazi Germany and made the classic comment that "Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy." At one time he even commented "If you believe in freedom! If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy-- you have no choice but to support Fidel Castro!"
One might think that Belafonte had made enough crazy, confused and anti-American statements for a decade, but this week he took a trip to Venezuela as a UNICEF 'goodwill ambassador', and got on stage with neo-communist dictator Hugo Chavez and couldn't resist the opportunity to shout his defiance of Bush, of reality and of sanity.
Belafonte started out his remarks by once again demonstrating his firm command of facts when he commented that the United States builds more prisons than schools, a pretty remarkable conclusion considering we have about 6 million kids in school and only about 1.7 million criminals in prison. Maybe our schools are really, really big. How long is the bus ride to your local 10,000 student megaschool?
