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{{iboriginal|chocolateneworleans|Chocolate New Orleans}}
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{{ibdate|January 2006|January 16,2006}}
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|title1=Chocolate New Orleans Dance Remix
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|title2=Ray Nagin and the Chocolate City
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The '''Chocolate New Orleans''' fad spawned from a speech given by New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin on Martin Luther King Day, in which he called for the establishment of a chocolate city.
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The speech contained several bewildering ideas, including Nagin professing to have spoken to Martin Luther King and, the 2006 hurricane season being a punishment from God for the US-led invasion of Iraq. As he reached his conclusion, Nagin referred to the reconstruction of New Orleans following the damage of [[Hurricane Katrina]], and stressed that the rebuilt city would maintain it's largely black population:
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<blockquote>"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."</blockquote>
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The misconception that Nagin was calling for an ''entirely'' black population and the absurdity of his metaphor resulted in widespread mockery, particularly on YTMND, where [[Willy Wonka]] was already an established fad.  Most sites utilizing the Chocolate New Orleans fad feature the tell-tale soundbyte of Nagin as well as a scene where buildings are altered to look brown in order to create the illusion they are made of chocolate.
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One of the more notable musical selections for the fad is "The Land of Chocolate."  The music originated from a scene in the Simpsons episode "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" in which Homer Simpson daydreams of a literal chocolate city.  The entire scene has been included as a track on [[YTMND_Soundtrack#Volume_9|YTMND - The Soundtrack Volume 9]].
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==External Links==
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*[http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/news/t-p/stories/011706_nagin_transcript.html Transcript of Nagin's "Chocolate City" speech]
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*[http://snpp.com/episodes/8F09.html Synopsis of the Simpsons episode containing the "Land of Chocolate" scene]
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