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...
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.
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.