New Orleans mayor sorry for 'chocolate' remark - Yahoo! News

Nagin needs a better handler. He is a compelling speaker but has done as much damage to the city's efforts to rebuild with comments like these as he has done good in raising awareness of the real scope and impact of the problems.

New Orleans was and will always be a "creole" city in the literal, not ethnic sense. A little of this and a little of that, mixed together with concentrations here or there but overall a nice mix.

From a wealth standpoint, caucasians will still dominate. From a population standpoint, black and Creole will maintain pluralities (or close to it), but assuredly Hispanic is on the rise and will be a major influence on city activities.

Do we need to quote Rodney King here? I'm not one to pretend that race and ethnicity is not a real issue and can be ignored, but to we have to fan the flames of polarization?