The Nagin quote has been out for a week, I find it hard to believe Herr Baier is unaware.  

Since Mike was silent on Mayor Nagin's statement prior to Shawn's statement, I can only think he must be adhering to a double-standard.  It appears to be o.k. for someone he likes to use a word such as "chocolate" to depict a race color.  But if someone from an opposing viewpoint uses the same language, they are pilloried and called racist.

Denys said:

> For the last week or so, I have had to access my email via the web 
> interface, and so without the protection afforded to me by Outlook, 
> which is I why I saw your message, unfortunately.
> 
> I can't decide which is more funny, your unabashed display of total 
> ignorance of current events or your faked shock.  Shawn is a 
> Conservative which means he does not have a racist bone in his body; 
> what he does have is a keen awareness of said current events and a 
> quick wit to match.
> 
> You were totally outwitted and you immediately charged into 
> nothingness with the vigor of a knee-jerk, reactionary and totally 
> humorless leftist.
> 
> I suggest you try to get your news from other places than the Daily 
> Kaos, the Democratic Underground, Al Jazeera and the New York Times.  
> If you did, you would have known that Ray "School Bus" 
> Naggin, the "it- is-hoped-to-be-soon-erstwhile" mayor of New 
> Orleans, (who bought a 
> house in Dallas a few days after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast 
> and caused 
> the flood in his city) gave a speech recently, urging black people to 
> return to New Orleans and predicting that New Orleans would soon be a 
> Chocolate City again.
> 
> "We ask black people: it's time. It's time for us to come together. 
> It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a 
> chocolate New Orleans. And I don't care what people are saying Uptown 
> or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the 
> day." (Source: The Times-Picayune, 17 January, 2005.)
> 
> Shawn just poked fun at a public figure using the latter's own words 
> in doing so.  This is the height of wit, perhaps too 
> stratospheric for 
> some.
> 
> 
> Denys
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf Of Michael Baier
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:51 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: The Century Ahead
> 
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:58:53 -0800, Shawn Gordon 
> <[log in to unmask]> 
> wrote:
> 
> >Katrina was a cluster (you know what) all the way around, 
> but you can 
> >sure pin a lot of blame on chocolate Nagin and the worthless governor
> 
> So, we are a little or rather big racist.
> I remembered some of your comments from the time I had 
> history lessons. Back in 1933-1945 they sounded simular but 
> were from others. Guess we were re-born in another country. 
> Do you wear a funny mustache?

BT
Tracy Johnson
http://hp3000.empireclassic.com/








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