New Orleans Mayor Nagin Says God Is Angry

In a Martin Luther King Day speech yesterday, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin made a number of controversial remarks about race and religion. CNN today reports that Nagin said New Orleans will remain a "chocolate" city, i.e. mostly African- American, because "It's the way God wants it to be." He also said that "God is mad at America," in part because we are "in Iraq under false pretenses." "He is sending hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it is destroying and putting stress on this country," Nagin said. He said God is "upset at black America also." "We are not taking care of ourselves. We are not taking care of our women, and we are not taking care of our children when you have a community where 70 percent of its children are being born to one parent."