'God Mad At America' Claims New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin
Robert Paul Reyes
January 17, 2006
"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."
All quotes in this article as reported by Brett Martel of the Associated Press.
Pat Robertson putting his foot in his mouth again? A conservative Republican blaming all the nation's ills on the black underclass? A meteorologist on crack? Osama gloating at the natural catastrophes that have wreaked so much damage on America?
No, this quote is by Ray Nagin, the African American mayor of the devastated city of New Orleans.
Rewind to a few months ago:
After devastating Florida, Hurricane Katrina slowly churned her way across the warm waters of the Gulf, bulging in size and strength until she was a category 5 behemoth.
For three days, the mayor of New Orleans watched CNN and Fox News as Katrina zoomed in on his city, but took no measures to protect his constituents other than to warn them to evacuate.
In my opinion, because of the inexcusable negligence of Ray Nagin, hundreds of residents of the Big Easy died.
Now Nagin, who presides over a ghost town, is blaming God for the results of his incompetency. As the Church Lady would say: How convenient.
As if Nagin didn't have enough problems in New Orleans that demand his immediate attention, he interjected himself in international politics:
"Surely he (God) doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves."
Nagin wasn't done making a complete ass out of himself:
"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. 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."
God doesn't send hurricanes to punish evildoers, God doesn't issue foreign policy statements, God doesn't care if New Orleans is chocolate, strawberry or Neapolitan. And God doesn't send chocolate jackasses like Nagin or vanilla hucksters like Pat Robertson to speak for him.
All quotes in this article as reported by Brett Martel of the Associated Press.
Pat Robertson putting his foot in his mouth again? A conservative Republican blaming all the nation's ills on the black underclass? A meteorologist on crack? Osama gloating at the natural catastrophes that have wreaked so much damage on America?
No, this quote is by Ray Nagin, the African American mayor of the devastated city of New Orleans.
Rewind to a few months ago:
After devastating Florida, Hurricane Katrina slowly churned her way across the warm waters of the Gulf, bulging in size and strength until she was a category 5 behemoth.
For three days, the mayor of New Orleans watched CNN and Fox News as Katrina zoomed in on his city, but took no measures to protect his constituents other than to warn them to evacuate.
In my opinion, because of the inexcusable negligence of Ray Nagin, hundreds of residents of the Big Easy died.
Now Nagin, who presides over a ghost town, is blaming God for the results of his incompetency. As the Church Lady would say: How convenient.
As if Nagin didn't have enough problems in New Orleans that demand his immediate attention, he interjected himself in international politics:
"Surely he (God) doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves."
Nagin wasn't done making a complete ass out of himself:
"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. 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."
God doesn't send hurricanes to punish evildoers, God doesn't issue foreign policy statements, God doesn't care if New Orleans is chocolate, strawberry or Neapolitan. And God doesn't send chocolate jackasses like Nagin or vanilla hucksters like Pat Robertson to speak for him.