New Orleans Race Relations (1 Viewer)

[Monk-Eye]

"New Orleans Race Relations"

Race relations still tense a year after Katrina

Good Riddance
Meanwhile, more than half the population remains scattered across the country, and a city that was once two-thirds black has become majority white.

Large elements of the culture were pervasive and depraved, the rest of the country is grieving in disgust at their arrival.

It is high time the dysfunctionally dependent subculture took responsibility for themselves.

 

[jujuman13]

Much of what that article says is true.

What was left out was the inescapable fact that Mayor Nagin had within his remit the means to remove from the city almost all those who found temporary refuge in the Dome.
All he had to have done was to pull the city yellow school buses out of their garage and place his electorate on those buses.
He failed to do this, he claimed he did not have the authority.
So before we start blaming the Government let us start with that fact.

Now N.O. has long had an ignoble history of being one of America's most crime ridden city, it has long been known that it's governance is basically corrupt.

Crime occurs when people are unable to find good paying jobs, to get these jobs it is required that they get a decent education, for that they need decent schools staffed with good educators.

Schools are built in N.O. and are shortly after being built, trashed by pupils, these pupils openly carry knives, guns even drugs into school premises.

I can think of no teacher who genuinely wants to the best for his pupils wanting to work let alone actually live in conditions such as these.

So my friend you had better realise that the answer does not lie with the Government pumping Billions of $ into N.O., rather it must start with a determination by the population that they are being given a second chance, they had damned well better take it, because any sympathy they gained from what the Government did by ignoring them will evaporate should they allow there city to return to the way it was pre-Katrina.

Now as to rebuilding those parts that are liable to flood, it is absolute madness to permit any rebuilding unless that rebuilding is done in such a way so that when it floods again (and it will happen again) those buildings are rebuilt at the very least with their foundations 3' above the flood level.
Think about that, there is not enough money to permit that to happen.

However there is a way around this problem, if rebuilding must be done then place the houses foundations on a slab that can float when a flood strikes and thus the houses can rise and fall with the rise and fall of the flooding waters. The Sewage connections can be attached with an umbilical tube. The electricity must be brought in via overhead cables that can not be affected by flood water or else they too be brought in with umbilical tubes.

Be assured of one thing, N.O. will at some time be hit by another hurricane.

Finally statistics have shown that 1/3rd of black Americans are currently in high paying jobs.
Fact, they got there by working, not stealing.