Chocolate?

Double standards in play?

Then there is New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin who said in essence that God is surely mad at black America and that the city of New Orleans will once again be a "chocolate" city. He didn't make things any better when he tried to clarify his remarks by saying "How do you make chocolate? You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about." At least Nagin apologized. Compare the treatment Clinton and Nagin received to that that of Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) who when speaking at Sen. Strom Thurmond's (R-SC) 100th birthday party in 2002 made the following remarks; "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either." Lott was forced to issue a written apology and stepped down as Senate Majority Leader as well as a result of intense pressure from the media.

I guess Republicans are expected to know better.