Talk show hosts, right wing radio ‘shock jocks’, newspaper editorialists, and a host of other local and national pundits lampooned and attacked New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s comments at the city’s truncated January 16th Martin Luther King Jr. parade. At the march, whose Mayorial appointed organizers abandoned the traditional starting point of the city’s battered Lower 9th ward, Nagin exclaimed that New Orleans should remain a “chocolate,” that is a majority Black, city. The superficial, and absurd commentary following the Mayor’s speech, such as former Louisiana Senator John Breaux comparing Nagin’s comments to Trent Lott’s lauding of Strom Thurmond’s defense of Jim Crow, has obscured the real insights into the workings of post civil rights class and racial domination that Nagin’s comments provide.