All major cities that have policies in place to encourgage "white flight". Those are ones you cited. Rich white people move to suburbs away from the inner-city. The poor are just a inconvenience to the ring cities. Kind of sad actually.
People, a nation is measured by how it treats it's poorest and those most in need. Many of the poor people who were not evac before the strom hit are the poorest people New Orleans has to offer. We have to be good citizens and help them out. Don't make assumptions about people. I bet you would be surprised at how you acted when you were on a verge of desperation and a camera caught you. Butfor some reason it seems ok to disparage a lot of these people just because they are black and poor. That is how I am seeing it. Not right. Not very Christ like either.
The meek shall inherit the earth.
wanna hear my crazy idea...?
I just finished a book on the depopulation of Detroit, so I got to thinking, why not move the homeless from New Orleans to Detroit.
Make the section a Enterprise Zone. The refugees will pay for the homes through sweat equity by renovating the abandoned sections of town. You get homes, jobs, refurbished section of town, and economic free enterprise zone...
probably just a crazy idea..
Yes, this is biblical and a tenet of Judaism and Christianity.
The people who showed up around Shep were dehydrated, hungry and in shock. A black man asked for someone just to tell him which way to go for help. They were law abiding citizens. They stayed in their homes until it became obvious no one was coming, not even a helicopter flew over. He said the rescuers have megaphones, and that they should use them to give directions. They want to cooperate. These people are in shock, not lazy or shiftless.
bluepistolero
Mr. Hall, I can quote scripture with you all day long.
Nobody here is discriminating against the poor. I have been poor. This is not about race. This is about dishonorable, sinful behavior. If you want to quote scripture, look up a few passages about thievery. Have you considered that if, indeed, that bus was hijacked, that the thugs who did it probably deprived truly poor and law-abiding people of the transportation they needed to get out of New Orleans?
The meek shall, indeed, inherit the earth. Thieves and looters and thugs and hijackers are not among the meek.
I wasn't talking about poor people in the cities. Jesus said we will always have the poor.
And we definitely are to help the poor.
I was speaking of the gangs, drug addicts, murderers, etc. If you don't think they are a major problem to cities now, then I really don't know what to say.