Posted on 09/15/2005 6:31:25 PM PDT by Army Air Corps
LUBBOCK — Desmond Bemiss stood at the open doors of the yellow school bus and watched three of his children get aboard for their first day of school.
Bemiss had been up since 5 a.m. His 5-year-old daughter, Dachannice, woke him as she often did in their home on Urseline Street in New Orleans. None of the Bemisses, 20 of them in all, had slept much the night before or the nights before that. Even when some of the lights were turned out, the conversations, televisions and boom boxes made the old Air Force hangar roar again into the early mornings.
This was no place for children, Bemiss knew, and it made him even more impatient to leave. Never had Bemiss and his family been so well cared for. No one was more genuinely appreciative than he. But how long, he wondered, could it or should it last?
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I got along fine with most NOLA folks when I lived there thirty years ago.Even in the hardest core ghetto projects most of the people were law abiding,trying to make it the best they could.If you talked to the teenagers they would ALL tell you they wanted out of the welfare madness.At the time,it was $87 a month plus food stamps.Not much of an opportunity to live on the gravy train.
Things did change in the Eighties with crack and the whole gangsta glorification.I was glad to be gone from the scene by that time.
New Orleans has suffered from decades of rampant cronyism, corruption, and socialist idiocy. When city government operates on graft, greed, and blatant corruption, the citizens suffer.
Amen to that. All these calls for the fed money to go to locals is more of the same. If 80% of those in NO were born there I'll say it is time for some new blood.
No all parts of the South - trust me - but the lower areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, yeah - but you know that hatred exists everywhere - we saw more of it living in a nearly all white area in Pennsylvania than we ever did in integrated Texas.
AAC, you said that a lot better than I did - Tonight I saw the chief of Police on a news program with Ted Koppel I think - He was being asked why the police didn't enforce any laws inside the SuperDome and Convention Center - The Chief kept screaming at Ted that there were 30,000 people vs his 200 officers.......... I wanted Ted to say, "Are you claiming that all 30,000 people were criminals with guns and knives?"............ of course he didn't
Wow this is amazing.
democrat socialist vote buying programs, that's what. La. democrat pols don't want blacks to work because then they don't have anything to offer them to vote for them.
Keeping them in poverty, they could always buy their vote by promising to "help" them.
Have to ping you to this one.
Well, many of my relatives live close to the LA border and have become familiar with the stories of NO city government's rapacious appetite for graft. The municipal government is infamous for kickbacks, skimming, and greed that would make the mafia blush.
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