I know New Orleans, having spent significant time there either doing business with corporate aircraft brokers, attending the convention center for both the amusement park and aviation industry, or visiting long time personal friends. The cabbies used to tell me, "sir, don't go walking around at night here, you take your life in your hands". Blacks folks, whom I know very well, and who really loved the city tell me the place is a cesspool of welfare clients living in a world of crime, drugs and sub-human culture. Folks have I have seen and had contact with can barely read, cannot communicate effectively, and don't have an ounce of credit to their name. The women have the credit cards, if they have any at all. The men hang out in the background, wards of the welfare state created by their "Black" leaders in NO and the Louisiana Democrat Party. It is distressing to watch humanity sinking so low!!! This is the way it really is. I could write a book of what these eyes have seen, but the American people are not going to subsidize a society that is dependent on Democrat political hacks for their survival, if one can call the way Black folks lived in New Orleans survival. Sadly this scenerio is repeated to a somewhat lesser degree in cities like Baltimore, Washington DC, Detroit, etc. My friend, this is what the Congressional Black Caucus and the Democrat Party have created, a new form of slavery and oppression. Too bad "Black" folks don't have the sense to see what has happened to them!!! New Orleans is not going anywhere until a "sea change" of political, economic and social change takes place. That is reality!!!
As Kirkwood said, New Orleans is not made up only of destitute black people living on welfare. That is a small part of the population of New Orleans. The rest of us are just like you,working people trying to raise our familys. Unfortunately that's the only part of the city the MSN shows. Apparently the only parts of NO the you have been is downtown, French Quarter and the inner city.That is a small part of New Orleans. It kills me that you people can't or won't understand this.You so cavalierly write off 10s of thousands of people like so many pests.The are a lot of good productive people struggling to survive here.
Go ahead and write your book. I can't understand how ppl can be so cruel. My house in Lakeview was submerged in 9 ft of water for over 2 weeks as was the entirety of Lakeview with different water levels of course. We trusted the Corps of Engineers to make sure the levees were safe and could hold back the Lake and the River.
I could write a book also on how it makes me feel to have ppl say such terrible things about my City. You just do not understand the absolute devastation we have suffered. I'm not sure this City will ever be the same. And you know what ... I pay taxes and high ones at that. I am a responsible law abiding citizen and living in Jefferson Parish until I can return to Orleans Parish. I will rebuild. It is going to cost me and I was just 8 years away from paying off my mortgage. In case you haven't noticed, we are doing things to make it safer. As a matter of fact, I am going to have to build a house that can withstand 150 mph winds. That's gonna cost me a heck of a lot more than I anticipated. I will also raise my house 12 feet as my home was over 50% damaged (53.91%).
We are good ppl down here. Please don't kick us while we're down. Mayor Nagin is not the jerk that he appears to be in these posts. He is a caring man. I just hope that we can rebuild and prosper and ppl can be happy for us.