NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that ``God is mad at America'' and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting. ``Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country,'' Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day.
| Actually, God was mad at you; he just has a broad aim. |
Nagin also promised that New Orleans will be a ``chocolate'' city again. Many of the city's black neighborhoods were heavily damaged by Katrina. ``It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans,'' the mayor said. ``This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.''
| Of course, one could imagine the furor if a big-city mayor anywhere in this country had called for said city to be a 'vanilla' one. |