Originally Posted by chadglni

There's no use arguing over the subject but the fact is NO was a majority black community. The poor neighborhoods that were demolished in the storm were majority black by a longshot. Many of these people left the state because they have nothing left. While you're worried about the way something is said the mayor was talking to a majority black crowd in a majority black city who had concerns because so many of their neighbors were forced out of town. "New Orleans will be a chocolate city again" or whatever he said is hardly racist in that situation. I would say the same thing if a spanish community was destroyed and their mayor said "It will be fiesta time again". It's just silly to worry about such petty crap.