New Orleans mayor apologizes for “chocolate” speech.
Explaining that he had gotten caught up in the moment, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin today apologized for the untoward remarks he made in a Martin Luther King Day speech he gave Monday. The Chicago Tribune reports that Nagin said he made a remark about the need to rebuild New Orleans as a “chocolate” (black) city in an attempt to assure his predominantly black audience that they would not be left out of the rebuilding effort, a widespread fear in the New Orleans black community.
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