Content of their character 0, Color of their skin 1.

Ray Nagin (and God, he claims) dreams of a 'chocolate' New Orleans.

When called on it, he backtracks like a manic crawfish:

"How do you make chocolate? You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about," he said.

"New Orleans was a chocolate city before Katrina. It is going to be a chocolate city after. How is that divisive? It is white and black working together, coming together and making something special."

Is there no room in New Orleans for Hispanic chocolate? Native-American chocolate need not apply? Is is a case of "Yellow chocolate go home!"?

Hurricane Katrina destroyed the buildings. Hurricane Nagin and his little commission will destroy the city.