[television is just wrong]

From what I've read, the Latino population plans on moving to New Orleans, employment opportunities abound for illegal aliens, and cheap labor. Not especially white people.

I realize this is touchy, but that is what I have been reading.

[MarieClaire]

That's a strange article.

[Fenris6]

Why do we keep playing into the race card?

[thegreatbeast]

Why couldn't this guy keep his mouth shut? It was a dumb thing to spout off about. There was exactly NO need for this kind of comment.

[Humidston]

Let's face it. The 9th ward was hard hit, and I don't see any logical reason that people steeped in poverty (black OR white) would have a need to return.

People with jobs and mortgages will return for obvious reasons. I'm sure many of the poor have found better living conditions in new, safer locations.

[inkling]

When I read the headline I dreaded what the story would contain. After reading it, it doesn't seem like much of a story at all. New Orleans won't be as big a city as it was (no duh). The poorest residents, a higher percentage of which are black, are the least likely to return (double duh). Hence, the city will be less black.

The fact that this was said by a black cabinet member makes it even less of a potentially "racist" comment.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

That means the bbq is going to suck!

[CurlyDave]

Both the preacher and the congresswoman suggested that the residents be housed at the closed England Air Force Base at Alexandria, La., to keep them closer to home.

Sounds like a great way to create a "super-slum" in no time at all.

First time I have ever heard of "black leaders" suggesting that we deliberately create a ghetto.

[BIRDS]

Yep, perhaps Bush is just coming straightforwardly out in his Administration that New Orleans will be the first (perhaps second, given Los Angeles today) "United States city of illegal aliens migrant workers."

Because, seriously, what is HUD going to do, bus in a bunch of white folks? White as in us trailer trash and white trash and rednecks and such Caucasian and Nordic and otherwise Anglo Saxons -- not Hispanic, in all due respect to Hispanics, just saying, most of the illegal aliens migrant workers lately are Hispanic and I'm generalizing for flippant purposes.

[Squantos]

Reminds me of Agriculture Secretary Earl Butts ....loose shoes and a warm place to go to the bathroom......

Not that I write these things down er something......:o)

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"A Bush Cabinet officer predicted this week that New Orleans likely will never again be a majority black city"

The sooner blacks realize that the Democratic Party does not push policies that promote growth, self-sufficiency, and competitiveness, the less likely you will have revelations of parishes with huge concentrations of blacks waiting for their Democrat government to save them. Bill Cosby's speeches on the decay of black youth hit the nail on the head and his so-called own race turned against him. Why? Because it was the truth.

Education, education, education, then find you a job. And that goes for any race. And once you become more successful, you become more conservative.

[Triggerhippie]

Celebrate diversity.

[Maigrey]

placemark

[Razz Barry]

Well, if I were they I might not move back. That was a lot to go through.

[donozark]

No expert on Louisiana politics, but my understanding is that for years, elections were determined by approx. 40K Democrats in New Orleans. Of course these 40K were Black, for the most part. Now that the "New Orleans Diaspora" has scattered them (some as far away as ID,CA,NY)many may not wish to return home to NOLA. Democrat leaders fear this, and I feel it may in part be a reason why they were hestitant to evacuate them promptly.

Sad but true, IMO. But all know the south has been moving to Republican Party since Nixon and Louisiana was one of the last southern bastions of Democrats.

[avg_freeper]

So much mourning over the loss of a vote slave plantation.

[TexasCajun]

Well, don't you first have to have taxpayers funding the city and subsidizing those non-taxpaying consumer non-producers.

[wildbill]

I predict that real estate developers will gamble that the Feds will pour enough money into the levees to protect the city for the forseeable Cat 5 hurricane.

They will go in and buy out poor people from the low-lieing areas of the city and rebuild a new gentrified city for yuppies.

[N. Theknow]

So, little white kids will be tap dancing for dollars on the street corners and the Olympia Band and Junior Olympia band will be doing Sousa marches?

[Mr. Jeeves]

It isn't race that upsets them, it's the concept that Republicans are laughing because "You Democrats just lost a political stronghold...ha ha ha!"