[Red in Blue PA]

I will not give one thin dime to a city which elects a mayor who boasts that it is a chocolate city. Imagine a white mayor saying their was a vanilla city. The guy would be driven underground. Yet it is perfectly acceptable for them to say it.

[ClearBlueSky]

THAT Mayor- Nagin- is now under federal indictment and VERY little is said about it locally. The current Mayor isn’t bragging about it, but he is benefitting from his ‘chocolate city’. The Landrieu’s have always been considered honorary ‘blacks’. And people have to understand-when the demographics of a city become heavily criminal/criminal related they ELECT sympathetic politicians and judges. The police department draws from the heavily criminal populace, and now the residency law is back in place so if you don’t live in the city-or are willing to move into it-you cannot be a cop. That effectively insures a primarily black/criminally connected and sympathetic police dept. Add that to judges who serve their criminal electorate by letting them go and you know how hopeless New Orleans is.

[cherry]

follow the money....that's what banks, and stores, and fine reastaurants and movie houses will do if violence keeps scaring away their paying customers...

we have so much discretionary income and yet people still choose to visit downtown NY or Baltimore or NO's....

you can get the food you want somewhere else...we just have to stop using our hard earned money in these areas...