さすがに発言撤回に追い込まれた。 でいうことには↓「もっと発言に気配りします」とのこと。 I need to be more sensitive and more aware of what I'm saying.
The mayor of New Orleans apologized Tuesday for saying the hurricane-ravagedcity would be rebuilt as a "chocolate" city and for blamingthe storm on the wrath of God over U.S. involvement in Iraq.
The "chocolate" remark, which Mayor Ray Nagin made in a speech Monday, struck a nerve, as racial tensions and concerns loom over proposed plans to rebuild New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina. loom over=~にぼんやり現れる、漂う
"If I offended anyone, I sincerely apologize," the mayor, who is black, said Tuesday.
In his speech Monday, marking the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Nagin said: "This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. .... This city will be chocolate at the end of the day."