Posted on 08/29/2010 11:57:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The MSM means that Leftists were the hardest hit group of people. What a surprise.
Oh dear, Miss Def-Jam-Poetry-Slam and her formerly “thriving community of socially conscious culture workers” can’t cadge enough public grant money to live in the style to which they (and their immaculately-conceived offspring) are accustomed.
The city’s homeless AND civil rights attorneys are both still “internally displaced”. The old publik skool system, it’s union contract and thousands of employees are SOL, vast tracts of Section 8 crack houses were torn down and not replaced. Oh, for shame.
Meanwhile, the Saints are back in the running, the tourist industry is going strong and the artistes that ordinary people actually pay to hear are making a living once again. Alas, there is just no place in the new New Orleans for the people who formerly lived off the fat of the land. It’s as much the economy as Katrina I’d say.
It appears there just isn’t the market there used to be for:
“An Aborisha (Omo Oshun) and advocate of Holistic Health, Sunni has trained under such greats as Oluwo Afolabi Epega, Dr. Ndugu Khan (Babalawo Ifa Kayode,) Queen Malikah Sabah (Iyanifa Faadisi Olaolu Olabisi,) Dr.Morris F.X.Jeff,Jr., Nana Anoa Nantambo, Mama Jean Taiwo, Nana Kwabena Faheem Ashanti, Ph.D, and several others. She is a certified instructor of Chi Kung (Qi Gong) and Tai Chi for Health.”
I’m half-white so half of me is wracked with guilt.
There's just no words...
Take a look at her web page. She does look good. Perhaps her New Age holistic health practice might pull in more customers if she, y’know, offered extra services.
Then she could write a book about it and parley that into a stellar screenwriting career like that Diablo Cody chick.
Some cable news show did give some airtime to Biloxi MS and how they managed to recover. They were mostly 75% back up and running within a year of Katrina.
But Ol’ Miss was being run by the eevil Republican Guv Haley Barbour so the Great and Good didn’t care about the plight of Crackas’.
Which is just as well for them. That sort of attention is unhealthy.
A cane loader? As in a tractor-type machine with a claw in front for loading stalks of sugar cane? That sure is a regional piece of hardware!
Kind of like a Bobcat claw loader on steroids. Pretty common in south Louisiana.
GIVE THEM THE MONEY...GIVE THEM THE MONEY...NOBODY COULD GET THEIR BUTTS OUT OF HARMS WAY BUT GIVE THEM THE MONEY. THEIR LOCAL LEADERS DIDNT USE THE BUSSES TO GET THEM OUT OF HARMS WAY BUT GIVE THEM THE MONEY. OOPS! WE ALREADY GAVE THEM THE MONEY.
Same here Cajun. When Charlie blew through here we and family members were shaken. Homes were destroyed, power was out for hundreds of thousands and the highways were closed. Swamp buggy drivers were delivering water to folks who looked like war survivors.
I hadn’t seen the kind of can do attitude in all of my life. Months passed before some got their power. Meanwhile people cleaned and loaded tons of materials before the real movers could come in. Men and women shook each others hands. I made coffee out of my garage and made iced tea for the volunteers if they could find ice. We cleaned it up period! Oh yeah, it was July and in the mid 90’s! We hooked up a shower head out back so people could rinse off the sweat and dirt. My commercial First Aid Kit came in real handy from all the cuts and scrapes.
The next storm that blew in (there were four that year) took out power in the South East. Rather than help each other out, they sued Florida Power. Florida Power repaired the poles and raised rates 30%. Oh, well.
This is a big crock of male bovine excrement.
The minorities have been conditioned through the decades to sit on their thumbs and take stuff from others. Thus, they are conditioned to not do for themselves and expect others to do everything for them.
The rest of the population still has the old way of doing things: Pick yourself up and fix it yourself. No one is required to help you and you are responsible for yourself.
People who get things done are those who do things, not those who sit around and wait for others to do them or support them.
Help is frequently nothing more than getting out of the way and letting people take care of things the best way they can. Government has yet to learn, or practice, that. I was in New Orleans and Pascagoula and and all along the coast in the days immediately after Katrina. The rules and regulations and limits the feds put on getting things done, things that REALLY needed to be done, were as much of a problem for the residents as the storm itself.
If the billions and billions of dollars that were poured into the area in the decades before the storm, ostensibly to make sure they were prepared for such an event, had been used as intended, instead of to feather the nests of corrupt leaders, the area would have been much better served.
But that's water over the damn, spilled milk, etc. Even a cursory investigation, if done honestly, would quickly and clearly reveal the critical difference in how the areas involved prepared and reacted determined which ones did better.
Concur notice how the MSM covers Hurricane Katrina more than the 9-11 event.
Unfortunately there are inequalities. Not all of us got the gift of get-up-and-go.
And I'll say it again ... go to the Gulf Coast of Alabama that was hit even harder than NOLA ... it is "over" there, fixed!! Why can the folks in Alabama "fix it" and the people in NOLA are still "struggling". Some people like to struggle, wallow in it and the feds gladly feel sorry for them and keep pouring the money in to "save them."
True, but I would classify that as individual inequality rather than racial.
Who said anything about racial? Folks in Mississippi and Alabama seem to have recovered. Why is NOLA different? Something in the water? Democrats?
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