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nagin sounds like a tool.....plain and simple
melon said:
Do you really think a bunch of multimillionaire developers are going to be discouraged by meaningless rhetoric? Where there's money to be made, nothing will stand in their way. And a bunch of powerless, poor black people are the last thing going to stand in their way.
This is rhetoric of despair and desperation, and, for that reason, I feel sorry for these people. They have no means to affect change, and all the "milky" vultures here cackle around to pick at their figurative corpses.
Rest assured, white people have had (and continue to have) nothing to worry about. America continues to be in their iron grip. And, really, if you really need to be constantly afraid of something (as is tradition for white Americans all the way back to the original settlers), try being afraid of someone who can actually bite back.
(And, of course, I'm not referring to you specifically.)
Melon
VertigoGal said:This is the mayor of the city talking, not a (black) bum on the street, and the mayor of a city does not need to be saying something divisive and racist like that. You do realize that not all white people are super rich or personally responsible for the ills of African-Americans or hateful toward and afraid of black people, right? Trust me, I know blacks have been disadvantaged historically (to put it lightly) and that predjudice hasn't disappeared...but everytime a black person says something idiotic (particularly a politician whose not exactly on the streets), people will say it's fine because the White Man's completely responsible for oppressing him to that point, and I think it's bullshit.
VertigoGal said:Nice try.
If we only discussed idiotic comments on this board that will personally affect the majority of us, we'd have nothing to talk about. Hell, when the President says something idiotic (as opposed to does), most of the time that won't affect my daily life.
I don't want to turn this into a Pat Robertson thread, but I think's whether or not a certain crazy person's comments have any effect on our lives is often a matter of perception.
Kieran McConville said:After consulting with my friend Calluna, we have deciphered Nagin's comments as a literal translation of Roald Dahl's novel 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.
You see, Nagin really literally wants to build a chocolate New Orleans. It's going to melt something awful come the summer!
ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS CALLS CHOCOLATE CITY UNFEASIBLE
Days after the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, predicted that New Orleans would soon be a "chocolate city" again, the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) poured cold water on those plans, arguing that building a city out of chocolate was "unfeasible."
Harland DeBellis, a spokesperson for the USACE, said that the agency had given plans for a city constructed entirely out of chocolate the thumbs down only after engineers painstakingly built a scale model of New Orleans out of Hershey’s bars and found the results "problematic."
"If the existing levees in New Orleans were breached by the flood waters of Katrina, imagine how much worse they would have been if they had been made out of chocolate," Mr. DeBellis said at a press briefing in Washington today. "Chocolate is simply not a suitable building material."
Mr. DeBellis said that as vulnerable as a chocolate city would be in the event of a hurricane, it would be even more endangered during the hot summer months, when temperatures in New Orleans routinely climb into the 90s.
"A chocolate city would be in constant danger of melting, and then when the temperatures drop, that gooey chocolate mess would harden and be impossible to clean up," he said.
In conclusion, the USACE spokesperson added that given the revelry associated with New Orleans' Mardi Gras, "The last thing you want is a city that a bunch of hungry drunks are going to eat."
nbcrusader said:It was only a matter of time......
BonoVoxSupastar said:Here's a question, and I'll just throw it out there.
When you live in a country that looks like this:
http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_nhblack.html
Is it OK to want and surround yourself with a certain culture in order not to have it die out? When you are still very much misrepresented, statistically not given the same chances, and very much oppressed in certain ways in your country is it so wrong to want and create communities steeped in your own culture?
Is it racism or preservation, or something else?