Y’know, I used to love New Orleans, and was even halfway entertaining the notion of trying to get down to either Mardi Gras or Jazzfest this spring. But not now:

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 16 — Mayor C. 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 said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

“Surely he 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, who is African American, also promised that New Orleans will be a “chocolate” city again. Many of the city’s black neighborhoods were heavily damaged by Katrina.

Many of the city’s white neighborhoods were too, of course; in fact, the proportion was just about equal. But the WaPo, eager to bend over and kiss the ass of this raving racist lunatic, obviously feels the need to perpetuate and bolster its original lying narrative about racial injustice in America, so there you go. Pure, unashamed propaganda, in the service of a race-baiting incompetent who desperately hopes to deflect attention from the fact that if any one person is to blame for the loss of life, black or white, in Katrina’s wake, it’s Ray Nagin. Thank your friends at the WaPo, Ray; in the finest liberal tradition, they’re doing their best to save you from your own irresponsibility and blank stupidity.

“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.”

Sorry, but that tears it. Not one more dime of my money will be spent in New Orleans as long as this bum is mayor. If he can get away with making insane Pat Robertson-like proclamations like this one without one censurious peep from the Left/MSM/Dem axis about it in objection — and he will — then I can surely be forgiven for saying that if my white ass ain’t welcome in NOLA, I’ll damned sure keep it the hell out, and I’ll also gladly advocate for cutting NOLA off from any of Uncle Sugar’s tax-dollar largesse, too.

But this being New Orleans Chocolate City and all, I find the WaPo’s positioning of this at the end of Nagin’s religio-flake diatribe utterly hilarious:

A day earlier, gunfire erupted at a parade to commemorate King’s birthday. Three people were wounded in the daylight shooting amid a throng of mostly black spectators, but police said there were no immediate suspects or witnesses.

And suddenly, I don’t feel as if by boycotting Chocolate City USA (formerly known as Murderville) I’ll really be missing much. Keep your sinking ghetto metropolis, Ray(cist) Nagin. And keep your thieving hands out of my pocket, too. Not one more federal dime for you and the dissolute self-seeking fools who elected you. Not one more dime from me. Next time you need bailing out (literally) from your own pathetic folly, you might try going and pissing up a rope, or taking a flying fuck at a rolling donut.

Let ‘em sink for all me.

Update! Nagin shoulda just let the media do its usual thing and pretend it never happened:

Pressed later to explain his comments, Nagin, who is black, told CNN affiliate WDSU-TV that he was referring to creation of a racially diverse city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, insisting that his remarks were not divisive.

“How do you make chocolate? You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about,” he said.

“New Orleans was a chocolate city before Katrina. It is going to be a chocolate city after. How is that divisive? It is white and black working together, coming together and making something special.”

Oh, please. What an insult. We’re all used to seeing some very shifty squirming and writhing around when some liberal politician or other gets caught letting his true self be seen from behind the usual mask, but this is pretty damned inept weaseling even for Nagin. I admit, though, that with this feeble attempt, the whole contretemps just devolved into something a lot more humorous than it is anything else.

How long can these damned fool Democrats keep this sort of thing up? Seems like every time one of them opens his yap these days, on just about any topic, he ends up with both left feet firmly implanted in it.

(Via Balloon Juice)