Yeah, wassup w/that?
One of my sisters went to college in North Carolina. When I rant that it looks like these people haven't done anything with their lives, she tells me that being poor and black in the south is different from being poor and black up north. From what I've seen of these NOLA folks, she might be right. It is hard to believe these people are living in 2005.
What the heck was going on in NOLA???
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.
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.
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.