"Chocolate City" Aftermath

Oh, I know-- you won't read about this in the mainstream press. And you won't see it on t.v.

But plenty has happened since New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin said God intended that New Orleans rise again as a "chocolate city," which he defined as a "black-majority city." Let New Orleans' own great paper tell you about it the original incident.

Since then, of course, two major repercussions:

The good people of Salt Lake City, UT, have decided to keep the town's nickname, "Crossroads of the West," and rejected the proposed name change to "Vanillaville"; and the Louisiana Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in Caramel v. Louisiana, Nagin, et al.

There is some precedent for this. Three of the current justices, including chief justice Calogero, were part of the historic case Beignet v. Waistline, (1982), a unanimous decision for Beignet.