The Associated Press reports that New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin gave a speech Monday in which he suggested that “surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it’s destroyed and put stress on this country.” More interesting still, he advocated a black majority for New Orleans, saying:

“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.”

Mike Bayham of the Huntington, NC News called it “Nagin’s Nutty ‘Chocolate’ Speech” and called it “the most bizarre address by a Louisiana politician since Governor Earl Long’s infamous ’sapsucker’ screed on the floor of the legislature.” Bayham points out that Nagin was a senior executive at Cox Communications, and was surely sensitive to the implications of potentially racist remarks, which, writes Bayham, no white politician could have gotten away with.

What’s truly odd is the headline Forbes chose for the piece: “New Orleans Mayor Sayd God Mad at U.S.” Are they mocking Nagin, or is the headline a typo? It seems to me it’s the former.