“We ask black people: it’s time. It’s time for us to come together. It’s time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. And I don’t care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.”
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Jan. 17, 2006
It’s been nearly 2 years since Ray Nagin made that declaration but, sadly, it seems that between Hurricane Katrina, broken levees, FEMA and President Bush’s broken promises, a black New Orleans is looking like a thing of the past.
Months back, we saw efforts to purge displaced black voters from New Orleans’s rolls. So, we knew what was at hand.
Now, another sign indicating the displacement of black people has appeared. For the first time in two decades, a majority-white city council has been elected.
I believe that this is just a foreshadowing of things to come. New Orleans, with its flaws, was still a vibrant and important piece of black Americana. Sadly, today, this appears to be washing away.
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