Nagin: God Wants the City He Destroyed to Be Black!

Ray Nagin is as bad at being a preacher as he was a Mayor during Hurricane Katrina.

“We ask black people … It’s time for us to come together. It’s time for us to rebuild New Orleans — the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans,” Nagin said Monday. “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.”

Forgive me for being ten different kinds of confused. Is Nagin saying that God was in favor of slavery in America because, folks, that’s what made New Orleans a majority black city. Oh, and while we’re at it, let’s congratulate Nagin for completely alienating anyone who calls themself Creole who happens to not be of African descent. See, blacks in New Orleans can trace their origins to all sort of places and many of them – a whole whopping number of them – aren’t actually African. Lots of them, in fact, are Caribbean. But my guess is that’s a distinction Nagin can’t quite make while he’s busy knowing the mind of God.

The point Nagin really wants to make is that white people aren’t welcome, at least not in any great numbers because God wants Nawlins to be black!

Or, as it happens, maybe He doesn’t. Nagin again:

“Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it’s destroyed and put stress on this country,” Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day.

“Surely he doesn’t approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We’re not taking care of ourselves.”

I’m kind of confused about why God would want to destroy the city and punish the inhabitants thereof, yet turn around and want people to come back. I mean, we have a few stories about God destroying cities and He doesn’t seem to be the kind of deity that lays waste to a place, then asks the remaining former residents to come back and live there. I’m pretty familiar with the Bible, I admit that I’m not Biblical scholar, so it’s possible that I missed the chapter about the Sodom and Gomorrah Relocation Project.

I’m even more confused about why folks who buy into Nagin’s *ahem* interesting theological statement would want to come back knowing they had actually escaped the wrath of God. I surely wouldn’t. Why go back to a place God had already struck once that was even more vulerable to His awesome anger, especially while George Bush is still in office? That’s just begging for trouble.

On a serious point, let’s ponder what sort of coverage this story is going to get in the MSM. I distinctly remember the outrage felt across the nation and in the media when Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, neither of whem are elected officials nor are they leaders in any political party. Here’s part of what deservedly caused the uproar:

JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I’ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way–all of them who have tried to secularize America–I point the finger in their face and say “you helped this happen.”

PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we’re responsible as a free society for what the top people do.

I don’t see what Nagin said as measurably different from what Robertson and Falwell said. They both say that God has punished us. The only different is who is attributed as causing the punishment.

I’m willing to bet that there’ll be one more critical difference between the two statements: the MSM will largely ignore what Nagin has said unless there’s some sort of outside push.

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