New Orleans Ice Cream Company Chocolate City
I never really expected to be talking race politics on an ice cream blog. Buuut thanks to an interesting ice cream name choice from New Orleans Ice Cream Company, here we are. The description of this flavor is A Politician's Faux-pas Inspired This Deliciously Satirical Chocolate Ice Cream With White Chocolate Chips . Now some background. "Chocolate City" is a term used to describe a city with a predominantly African American population or one that also has predominantly African American political leadership. Scholars, such as Cornel West and comedians, like Chris Rock, have used the term and the band Parliament has an album title Chocolate City. Now, on MLK Day in 2006, only months after Hurricane Katrina, then Mayor of New Orleans, C. Ray Nagin, gave a speech in which he used the term chocolate city to talk about his hopes for the future demographic of a post-Katrina New Orleans. Of course, a bunch of people got super offended. There is obviously a lot going ...