There was a huge influx of Latino illegals after Katrina.
They essentially cleaned up & rebuilt the city.
I stood in line for post-Katrina Christmas midnite mass at St. Louis Cathedral, next to a Halliburton contractor.
He said their cleanup contract required hiring locals, which in N.O. meant mostly blacks.
He said the blacks wouldn’t show up to work.
But the Latinos did, in droves.
thankyou....
Interesting. Thanks for telling me.
I understand that St Louis is now something other than a church? My grandmother lived in NOLA, and I visited every year at Easter time, always went to mass there. It was lovely. She lived out on St. Charles and we took the streetcar. One day, when I was about 11, we got on and she said, “There are no seats.” “Yes there are,” I said, and headed for the back of the car. She held me back and said “that’s where the black people sit. “
I had a hard time believing that...and the black people looked at me with that, “There goes another racist” look. We had a black guy at home in Chicago who was absolutely wonderful, did work in the house for us, even dressed up in a tux and served drinks at a Christmas party at our house. It was shocking to look at segregation.
And now, shocking to hear that those unsegregated blacks won’t work.
Typical story here in ca. Contractor here