The Mayor gave a press conference on MLK day saying that it's God's will that New Orleans be a "Chocolate City" and that Katrina happened because God's punishing us for Iraq, but also because black people keep killing each other. I think he's lost his mind. He said he'd had a one-on-one with Dr. King, who told him the city will be returned to a majority African American city, regardless of what Uptown (the mayor's base of support) says. So now there are hand drawn Willie Wonka For Mayor signs on people's homes, and the national media's covering Nagin's divisive remarks, and I'm worried that whites and blacks who are on the fence about coming back may not, and that people who are back may think twice about staying.

Transcript of the speech. There'd been 3 shootings the day before at a second-line celebration through Treme. Knuckle-heads?

This morning, Nagin's apologizing. Did he say things in the speech that were true? Yes. But the crazy-ass rhetoric is what the media's playing over and over.