Concering the Ray Nagin T-Shirts, this post over at the New Orleans blog People Get Ready sums up my thoughts pretty well.
Here’s the link:
http://peoplegetready.blogspot.com/2006/01/willie-wonka-ray-nagin-chocolate-city.html
(the repeated Willie Wonka Ray Nagin Chocolate City T-Shirt links are designed to move the Eracism site further up Google’s rankings when people search for Willie Wonka and Ray Nagin. By repeating the link here, elbuzzard.com is also contributing to what’s known as a googlebomb.)
Thanks for the assist — you’re number one in the search result! I’ve been getting a lot of hits, and people seem to linger for a few minutes — maybe their wheels are turning.
Number 1 in the Yahoo search results I should say. Google must have some sort of automated filter.
Ray Nagin and the Chocolate City
To the tune of Candy Man from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I present –
Nagin Man
Who can take a hurricane
Leave thousands in the Dome
Bitch about the response
and send the Chief of Police home?
The Nagin-man
The Nagin-man can
The Nagin-man can cause he mixes it with race and covers his ass real
good
Who can take a flood
Watch it with a sigh
Blame it on the engineers
and make the Governor cry?
The Nagin-man
The Nagin-man can
The Nagin-man can cause he mixes it with race and covers his ass real good
Ray Nagin wins
Every time he spins
Deflecting blame and suspicions
Talk about your political wishes
You can even vote from Memphis
Who can take an icon
Paraphrase his Dream
Separate the voters
And pander with racial themes?
The Nagin-man
The Nagin-man can cause he mixes it with race and covers his ass real good
Do you have a song about how the local politicians are to blame even though the responsibility to maintain the levees in the first place lies with the Army Corps of Engineers, a federal agency?