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One Thing New Orleans Poor Haven't Lost »

Posted by: TimALoftis 2 years, 4 months ago

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Its name was Katrina, and it happened just two years ago. Rarely has the nation been so moved as by the reports from New Orleans and the nearby communities that were so badly devastated. And perhaps never had the impact of race and poverty been revealed to us so forcefully.

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TimALoftis
Aug. 22, 2007, 4:48 p.m.
"The city's black population, as we now all know from the television reports, are mostly poor, very poor. And until the flood, they were also largely invisible. Now, they disturb our waking hours. Who are these people, these huddled masses yearning to be - to be what? Fed? Housed? Or simply: noticed." And I then went on to observe that, "We will never know how different it would have been had a neighborhood of middle class whites been the principal victims of the flood.
"I was mistaken about that, because now we do know, and what we know is decidedly unpleasant.
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schleifnet
Aug. 22, 2007, 5:04 p.m.
actually a large neighborhood of middle class were victims of the flood on the other side of the city and they are just as abandoned as the middle class african americans in yet another part of the city... in reality the most effected by the storm were the elderly in general not just blacks, whites, vietnamese or any of the others in the city who had a national media spotlight on only the poor sections of the city and not on the rest of the 80% that was flooded
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Rodkev
Aug. 22, 2007, 5:10 p.m.
Schleifnet - Could not have been said any better. The people who lived in Lakeview were totally ignored by the national media. Unfortunately, these middle-class citizens were an important tax base to the city, as opposed to the african-ameerican who are, for the majority, on welfare and are a economic drain to the city.
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Rodkev
Aug. 22, 2007, 5:14 p.m.
Schleifnet - could not have been said any better. Unfortunately, the people who lived in Lakeview, a middle-to somewhat upper class subdivision, who were mostly white, were ignored by the national media. The city of New Orleans lost a big tax base when the area was flooded. The african-americans who the media focused on are typically on welfare and social services and were a drain to the economy of New Orleans.
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Rodkev
Aug. 22, 2007, 5:27 p.m.
Sorry for the double post - i didnt think the first one went through
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rwrnae
Aug. 23, 2007, 10:15 a.m.
Let the gators take back NO, it's a really stupid place for a city. No more money for reconstruction, just give up, it's not worth it.