{"id":12909,"date":"2006-01-17T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/mayor-nagin-calls-for-rebuilding-chocolate-new\/"},"modified":"2006-01-17T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T22:06:00","slug":"mayor-nagin-calls-for-rebuilding-chocolate-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/mayor-nagin-calls-for-rebuilding-chocolate-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Nagin Calls For Rebuilding &#8220;Chocolate&#8221; New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has finally lost his mind.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/01\/17\/nagin.city\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">In a speech he gave yesterday, he had some very, um, unusual comments<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/thepoliticalteen.net\/2006\/01\/16\/naginchocolatepeople\/\" target=\"_blank\">video at <i>The Political Teen<\/i><\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day&hellip; This city will be a majority African-American city. It&rsquo;s the way God wants it to be.&rdquo;<br \/>&hellip;<br \/>In his speech, Nagin also said &ldquo;God is mad at America,&rdquo; in part because he does not approve &ldquo;of us being in Iraq under false pretenses.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He is sending hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it is destroying and putting stress on this country,&rdquo; Nagin said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK then&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/katrina\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">katrina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/religion\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">religion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/weird\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">weird<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-113751719749331882?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has finally lost his mind. In a speech he gave yesterday, he had some very, um, unusual comments (video at The Political Teen): &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day&hellip; This city &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/mayor-nagin-calls-for-rebuilding-chocolate-new\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mayor Nagin Calls For Rebuilding &#8220;Chocolate&#8221; New Orleans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}