Posted on 09/25/2005 7:10:03 AM PDT by drt1
Oct. 3, 2005 issue - In a fierce cultural storm, the future of the Lower Ninth is buffeted by race and politics. The Lower Ninth was going under, again. Floodwaters from Hurricane Rita had breached the levee along the Industrial Canal, inundating the poor New Orleans neighborhood that is, or was, home to 40,000 African-Americans. The levee had been patched after it failed in Hurricane Katrina, but not well enough. Cedric Richmond, the president of the Black Caucus in the Louisiana State Legislature, suggested that more than bad luck was at work. "For whatever reason," he told NEWSWEEK, "they didn't put the same effort into fixing the Industrial Canal as they did into the 17th Street Canal." The 17th Street Canal borders a largely white, middle-class area.
Richmond did not spell out what he meant by "for whatever reason," but the implication was clear enough. It is simply assumed by many residents of the Lower Ninth that the powers that be of the city of New Orleans would just as soon never rebuild the ward, and that the reasons have as much to do with race and class as they do with geography. The Lower Ninth is mostly below sea level; it is also 98 percent black, very poor and crime-ridden.
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"But others see in these plans a plot to drive out blacks from their homes and sacrifice their cultural heritage."
So which is it? A 'Cultural Treasure' or a crime ridden Hell Hole deserving of demolition much as housing projects have been.
Whatever it is, or whatever is done about it a pretty penny will be paid and the race pimps will be out in force.
Give it back to France.
Give it back to France.
This developer suggested golf courses - Whatever, it shouldn't be residential and below sea level.
Rebuild the ninth ward with a 15 feet levee's and a razor wire fence to keep the rabble in. Just don't call it a prison, it's a evacuee reeducation center
Let the law abiding black residents live somewhere else, culturally heritage will come back where ever they settle
Well, I guess the golf courses would have their share of "water hazards" is what I think golfers call them. I was of the opinion that rebuilding New Orleans was foolish right from the start. Only children rebuild sand castles on the beach with the tide comin' and goin'. When it flooded again 2 weeks later, I asked myself if someone would explain to me again how smart the rebuilding plan could be. I must be too dumb to understand.
One of the last pools of dem voters left to control.
Could both of us be too dumb to understand? Whenever someone tells me that I'm not seeing "the big picture", I think of the Wizard of Oz telling Dorothy to "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain".
Wait? Are you saying that leftists have tempered the class rhetoric of Marx with a good, old fashioned bit of fascist biologism?
I thought so. Between economics and biology, there isn't anywhere for the socialists to go. So we get to hear all about "race and class."
I suggest we demote Louisiana to a third world state, flood the whole place and let the ducks have what's left.
'...culturally heritage will come back where ever they settle.'
Yes Sir,
A proven Democratic party voter base success story.
mc
IMO they can build and rebuild it for all eternity so long as 'They' bear the costs of preserving this 'Cultural Treasure'. That would also mean that, in addition to completely private funding of this folly, ABSOLUTELY NO Gov't subsidies for flood insurance and the like.
I strongly suspect that, when the recipients of the rebuilding efforts are forced to bear to total casts themselves - And not have the rest of the country subsidize their investment, clearer heads will prevail.
Since it is below sea level why waste time and money as it will just floood again.
Besides, now with all the publicity think of all the terrorists that may have taken notice.
It's still early to me!
When Denny Hastert made his original, and much criticized, remark about not rebuilding NO he was actually speaking from real experience. He represents an Illinois district. In the mid 1990's the Mississippi river flooded a great deal of low lying communities in Illinois. The Federal government came up with a really good (surprise!!) idea for dealing with the problem at the time--they moved entire communities to higher ground and reestablished them there. Is I remember (anybody here who has better recollection please correct me), the people who were moved were given the option of being paid for their moves and not being able to go back to the flood plain or nothing much at all. It was a really effective, humane way to get people out of flood prone areas and reduce future taxpayer liability. The same kind of tough love needs to be applied to the Lower Ninth and similar places in NO.
I can just picture the mindless Islamic zombies walking into the concrete levee's and detonating themselves, knowing that America will continue shoveling money to rebuild it time and time again, eventualy bankrupting itself.
Ditto
Assume that most "low income" housing was destroyed.
When the "owner" gets whatever settlement...he'll surely not reinvest it in a new rental hovel.
He'll take the money & invest elsewhere (while taking a giant tax charge off).
Not to fear - the rebuilding of Sect. 8 housing in NO.
the economics aren't there for private or public investing.
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