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Sunday, February 19, 2006

By JAMES AHEARN

WHAT IS HAPPENING in New Orleans is surreal.

On one hand are planners and economists who say, reasonably, that it would be impractical to rebuild the devastated city as it was, with hundreds of thousands of people returning to home sites that were flooded for weeks with 10 feet or more of brackish water.

For one thing, the experts say, most of those people, now living as evacuees in places from Texas to Cape Cod, are not going to come back. Not anytime soon. Not only do they lack livable residences to which to return, there are no jobs for them. Even before the hurricane, many struggled to eke out a living, and a large number were unemployed.

The planners and economists say the city should seize the day, should recognize that the catastrophe is also an opportunity, that the worst-hit parts of New Orleans should be allowed to revert to marshland, that the city should retreat behind new, defensible flood fortifications.

This need not mean that the people, mostly black, who used to live in low-lying sections should give up all hope of returning to the Big Easy. To the contrary, the future of New Orleans, redefined, should be bright, and that future will be integrated.

The experts offer beguiling images. Here would be a reconstituted Jazz District, in the old Storyville section, north of the French Quarter. Here would be a 53-mile light-rail mass-transit line crisscrossing the city, like the New York subway but aboveground, carrying people from homes to jobs and recreation and to the airport. The experts talk of new parks and schools, of new beginnings.

To people contemplating these plans from a distance, like me, the vision is attractive, and not necessarily unrealistic. It might cost less than it would to rebuild as before, only to endure another hurricane, another flood. And the cycle could repeat endlessly.

The reality on the ground is different, though. In New Orleans, the divide between the white and black neighborhoods is deepening. The white parts are coming back. The fancy restaurants are reopening, Mardi Gras got under way this weekend, the Bourbon Street bars are open.

A lot of you guys we're right, it's gonna be a WHITE City

The perspective in the black neighborhoods is grimmer. There are still blocks after blocks of ruined houses. Some were picked up by the storm surge and deposited, Humpty Dumpty, far away. Regrettable though it is, the sane response is to demolish the wreckage, haul it away, and begin afresh.

That is not how the African-American community sees it. What it sees is a future in which the white population would be about as big as before the storm, but the black population would be much smaller. It fears it would lose whatever political influence and economic security it had managed to acquire. It wants to hold on to its property, no matter what shape it is in. It fears, not to put too fine a point on it, that whites will return to power in the city government.

As to that last concern, it may be warranted. The city had been scheduled to hold elections two weeks ago for mayor, City Council, sheriff and tax assessors. The elections were put on hold after the hurricane, which destroyed hundreds of voting locations, but under pressure from a federal judge, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco has set April 22 as Election Day.

Mayor Ray Nagin appears unopposed in the black community, but several white men are preparing to challenge him. Nagin did not help himself when, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, he declared that Hurricane Katrina may have been visited by God on New Orleans as a sign that he was mad at America. Nagin compounded the image of ineptitude by vowing that New Orleans would remain "a chocolate city." The French Quarter blossomed next day with Mayor Willy Wonka T-shirts, and one resident e-mailed the Times-Picayune, "Ray Nagin is a praline: brown sugar and nuts."

Most registered voters, particularly in black neighborhoods, will not be present in the city April 22. How many will take the trouble to vote by absentee ballot?

There are other, more pressing concerns. When demolition crews attempted to clear streets of debris in the Lower Ninth Ward, they were met by angry residents and activists who forced City Hall to call them off. When homeowners received notification that their houses were more than 50 percent damaged, opening them to demolition, the owners descended on City Hall en masse and got compliant clerks to recalculate the damage at 47 percent or so.

However, when the owners applied to the federal Small Business Administration for low-interest loans to rebuild, four out of five were turned down. Their incomes or credit ratings were too low to qualify. Some owners are trying to repair homes themselves, which can be harder to do than build a house from scratch.

And so it goes. The New Orleans familiar to tourists will soon be doing business as usual. The lower-lying, flood-prone neighborhoods will continue to struggle, and visionary plans for a modern, exciting, inclusive and flood-resistant city are likely to remain just that, plans.

Jim Ahearn is a contributing editor and former managing editor of The Record. Send comments about this column to opedpage@gmail.com.

The depth of nigger stupidity,is beyond belief.

Katrina's Latest Damage:
Crime is up. Schools are overcrowded. Hospitals are jammed. Houston welcomed a flood of hurricane evacuees with open arms. But now the city is suffering from a case of 'compassion fatigue.'

March 13, 2006 issue -- In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, Houston earned a loving moniker among many of the evacuees who sought refuge there: the Big Heart. This, after all, was the city that housed, fed and mended more than 150,000 survivors in a herculean effort that won national acclaim. Houston officials mounted what is believed to be the biggest shelter operation in the country's history, including MASH-like megaclinics that took on problems ranging from emergency care to eyeglass prescriptions. Then, just as quickly, officials disbanded those facilities to usher evacuees into more-permanent housing, offering them generous vouchers that covered rent and utilities for a year. "No other city really provided the resources and assistance Houston has," says Angelo Edwards, vice chair of the ACORN Katrina Survivors Association. "If not for Mayor [Bill] White and his administration, a lot of us would've been lost."
But six months after the evacuees arrived, the city's heart seems to be hardening. The signs of a backlash are sometimes subtle. "You'll hear little snide remarks," says Edwards. "People will say, 'The reason you can't get a job is because you can't talk right'." Other times, the reaction is more venomous. Among the nasty examples Dorothy Stukes, an evacuee, cites: graffiti blaring F--- NEW ORLEANS in her apartment complex, schoolkids taunting her grandchildren to "swim in that Katrina water and die" and shopkeepers muttering about survivors' sucking the public coffers dry. Stukes, chair of the ACORN KSA, has become so concerned that when New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin came to town recently, she begged him to hire a public-relations firm to repair the evacuees' image. But given all that Nagin has to contend with amid his own run for re-election, that is not likely to land high on his list.
Katrina continues to be a destructive force. The Bush administration found itself engulfed once again last week, after the release of some footage of the president at an August video briefing on the hurricane. The tape revived discussion of some of Bush's darkest days, when he seemed either uninformed or unable to respond to a national disaster unfolding on TV. But the tape wasn't the only thing fueling Katrina's return to the news. Stoked by congressional investigators, new details have emerged about the government failures that left so many people in mortal danger. Late last week retired Marine Corps Brigadier Gen. Matthew Broderick resigned his post as Homeland Security's operations chief amid accumulating evidence that the command post he directed as Katrina hit misjudged the early damage to New Orleans. (Homeland Security said Broderick left to "spend more time with his family.")
Yet as devastating as Katrina has been for the administration, its impact has been far more visceral in those communities that received tens of thousands of evacuees overnight. In cities stretching from Atlanta to San Antonio, good will has often given way to the crude reality of absorbing a traumatized and sometimes destitute population. In Baton Rouge, which added 100,000 people to a pre-Katrina population of 225,000, residents bemoan the loss of the city's small-town feel and worry that trailer-park settlements will become permanent fixtures of blight. In Dallas, the city housing authority began offering rent vouchers to some of its 20,000 evacuees, only to become quickly overwhelmed and fail to pay landlords, prompting a number of eviction notices.

But perhaps no city has been as convulsed as Houston, which took in the greatest number of survivors. As some see it, the city is suffering from "compassion fatigue." Public services are overwhelmed, city finances are strained and violent crime is on the rise. When city leaders in New Orleans made comments two weeks ago suggesting that they wanted only hardworking evacuees to return, some Houston city-council members erupted in protest—fearing that politicians in the Big Easy were trying to stick Houston with their undesirables. "We extended an open hand to all kinds of people," says Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs. "If they want to return home, it's their right." And if they want to stay, she adds, they "need to stand up, get on their feet and get jobs."

It doesn't help that a small segment of criminals threatens to give all New Orleanians a bad name. Though Houston's murder rate was already climbing before Katrina, the newcomers have added to it. Of 189 murders in the six months after the hurricane, 33 involved Katrina evacuees as either suspects or victims, according to Police Chief Harold Hurtt. Initially, the killings resulted from clashes among rival New Orleans gangs, says Hurtt. More recently, they've stemmed from robberies or narcotics, he says. Many cops are struck by the brazenness of the evacuees. "It seems like the face of crime has changed in Houston," said Officer Brandon Brown one night last week as he patrolled the sketchy Fondren area of the city, where many of the arrivals have settled. "It's more tense, more violent." Soon after saying that, he was called to respond to an alleged assault. A New Orleans woman was accused of attacking her boyfriend, whose head she had previously slashed with a shard of glass.

There are other signs of strain. The Houston Independent School District has been flooded with 5,800 additional kids, out of 20,000 overall in area schools. That influx has forced it to spend an additional $180,000 per day of its own $1.3 billion annual budget—only a fraction of which may be reimbursed by the federal government—to educate the new students. With their arrival have come new social tensions: one near-riot between Houston and New Orleans kids at a high school in December resulted in the arrests of 27 students. [What on earth is a 'near-riot'? Sounds like a polite way to say "Rioting niggers didn't tear shit up as badly as they might have." --L.D.] Part of the problem, according to Edwards of ACORN's Katrina survivors' group: a hip-hop culture clash between kids who feel a need to "represent" their musical style. "Now you've got two sticks of dynamite rubbing against each other," he says.

The newcomers are also taxing the area's health-care system. Already burdened by a high proportion of uninsured people before Katrina, Houston has had to contend with thousands more. The problem will likely only get worse: on Jan. 31, more-generous Medicaid rules for Katrina victims expired. As a result, countless patients who had been receiving treatment in doctors' offices may now turn to overwhelmed emergency rooms. "Our hospitals are struggling financially to get by, and this doesn't help," says David Persse, Houston's EMS medical director. "Hospital CEOs are about to have coronaries." Worse still, infection rates for sexually transmitted diseases are increasing—possibly an outgrowth of high rates in New Orleans, city health officials say.

All of which leaves Houston Mayor Bill White scrambling to keep the city's finances afloat. He's taken heat from political opponents who carp that he should have sought greater assurances of federal support before welcoming evacuees so magnanimously. "This is going to create turmoil for many years to come," says Steve Radack of the Harris County Commission. But White responds that the city couldn't exactly shut its doors to desperate, dislocated people. Last month he announced that FEMA had agreed to reimburse the city for its housing-voucher program—expected to cost $300 million to $400 million—and to pay $6.5 million in police overtime costs to boost patrolling. And he continues to campaign for additional education and public-safety funds. Six months after Katrina, he says, "there is still an emergency." The city that so generously opened its heart could now use a little generosity itself.

Thanks for posting that, LD.

Now who did not see this coming?

It figures you get a pack of niggers who were fighting, raping, killing and shiting on the superdome floor like animals that you are importing the scum of the earth.

I just wish no white people died and all the niggers were washed out to see to feed the crap and sharks.

It figures you get a pack of niggers who were fighting, raping, killing and shiting on the superdome floor like animals that you are importing the scum of the earth.

I just wish no white people died and all the niggers were washed out to see to feed the crap and sharks.

Americans ( most whites , for that matter ) are foolish and dangerous . They extend charity to people who don't deserve it and withhold money when it would help the deserving .

Shoot, with all the niggers we saw floating in the water, look how many survived - just goes to show HOW MANY there actually are, not just in one state, but in the entire country.

We're way past the point of no return.

AM

Houston was actually a decent, if somewhat over-crowded city when I was there some years ago. It was predominantly White at the time, and so I suppose the folks there, being decent human beings, expected these savages to behave like they themselves would.
I suppose we will never know how many Whites were murdered, raped, robbed and terrorized, at the hands of the filthy niggers that made what might have been a manageable emergency, into a nightmarish disaster of far-reaching and epic proportions. What I've gathered thus far, amidst all the dis-info and crying for the savages, is that the number of White casualties is huge. All because foolish, well-meaning Whites, lied to by big jew for generations about the blessings of multi-culturalism, and now fully indoctrinated, wished to extend some compassion and aid, and expected other races to be grateful for it, as they should have been.
Instead we have had rampaging niggers, taught by the very same big jew, for generations that whitey has been holding him down and hates him. Wants to see him dead...
We have seen the end result now rearing itz ugly head in Houston.
How much will the well meaning Whites there put up with???

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Mayoral Contest a Question of Race
News/Comment; Posted on: 2006-04-22 19:15:12

...but only Blacks are allowed to say so

NEW ORLEANS - Voters from the city devastated last fall by Hurricane Katrina head to the polls today to cast ballots to decide who will be the city's mayor in an election in which the politics of race can hardly be hidden.

From White candidate Peggy Wilson's repeated references to "welfare queens, pimps and gangbangers" to replays of Black incumbent mayor Ray Nagin's "chocolate city" speech, New Orleans' mayoral campaign has been rife with racially charged language.

On the stump last month, Nagin reminded a largely Black audience that he faces a predominantly White field of challengers, saying of his opponents: "Very few of them look like us."

Now, in a radio ad being aired by Nagin, Black community activist Barbara Major makes a pointed plea to Black voters on the mayor's behalf.

"In my opinion, the struggle for political and moral control of New Orleans is at stake," said Major, whom Nagin named to co-chair his Bring New Orleans Back commission.

In the spot, Major says she accepted Nagin's request to serve because she believed "our people" needed "to be heard in the rebuilding of New Orleans."

Such flagrant racial appeals provide a noticeable contrast to the veiled language used by White candidates such as Wilson.

At the mayoral candidates' forum held last week, Wilson was pressed about her use of phrases such as "welfare queens" to describe the kind of people she believes should not be allowed to return to New Orleans. Wilson maintained that the words have nothing to do with race.

"That's not a racial term, it's a behavior term," she said. "It refers to how people behave."

Wilson's denial, however, is not fooling anyone who understands the dynamics of identity politics in contemporary America. Indeed, it only confirms what many understand is a widespread double standard with regard to the politics of race.

Black historian Shelby Steele--who himself approves of the double standard--has summed it up about as well as anyone could.

"Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across the Western world," he wrote in the Wall Street Journal.

"Black children today are hammered with the idea of racial identity and pride, yet racial pride in whites constitutes a grave evil….[T]oday's whites, the world over, cannot openly have a racial identity."

Today's election will certainly be decided on the basis of race. The fact that the Black race has the privilege of being open about this, while the White race keeps its collective mouth shut does not change the reality of the matter.

Source article

http://www.nola.com/elections/newslog

Source: nola.com

http://nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=8722

I wonder what the exact demographics of NO are right now. I know for a time it had become majority White, although that may no longer be true.

I wonder what the exact demographics of NO are right now. I know for a time it had become majority White, although that may no longer be true.

It's mostly white now. All you have to do is look at the crime rate in NO. It is lower than it has been in decades. Low crime is synonymous with few minorities.

In a normal society, that walking pile of feces in a suit, Nagin, wouldn't have a chance in the election. But while spooks will vote for another spook because of the color of his skin ONLY, stupid guilt-ridden whites will probably vote 30% for this loser, giving him the edge. Katrina should have been a wakeup call to all of New Orleans as to how poor a leader this turd in loafers is, but he will probably still get elected. Unless the remaining city residents wake up and realize how much NICER their city is without all the darkies around.

It's Nigger Nagin and Nigger Loving Landrue.

Landrue is Lt Governor and is running for mayor of New Orleans which pays half the salary of Lt Governor.Something stinks here?:confused:

Landrue's father "Moon" Landrue, was mayor back in the 70's and loves Niggers more than anyone.

So,essentially either is a major Nigger candidate.

Jackson and Sharpton are expected to bus in a few thousand niggers for the run off.

Nagin Wins Re-Election as Big Easy Mayor By MICHELLE ROBERTS, Associated Press Writer
51 minutes ago

NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin, whose shoot-from-the-hip style was both praised and scorned after Hurricane Katrina, narrowly won re-election over Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu on Saturday in the race to oversee one of the biggest rebuilding projects in U.S. history.

"We are ready to take off. We have citizens around the country who want to come back to the city of New Orleans, and we're going to get them all back," Nagin said in a joyful victory speech that took on the tone of Sunday sermon.

"It's time for us to stop the bickering," he said. "It's time for us to stop measuring things in black and white and yellow and Asian. It's time for us to be one New Orleans."

Nagin won with 52.3 percent, or 59,460 votes, to Landrieu's 47.7 percent, or 54,131 votes. While the vote was split largely along racial lines, Nagin was able to get enough of a crossover in predominantly white districts to make the difference. He also won a slim majority of absentee and fax votes cast by evacuees scattered across the country.

Nagin, a former cable television executive first elected to public office in 2002, had argued the city could ill-afford to change course just as rebuilding gathered steam.

His second term begins a day before the June 1 start of the next hurricane season in a city where streets are still strewn with rusting, mud-covered cars and entire neighborhoods consist of homes that are empty shells.

With little disagreement on the major issues — the right of residents to rebuild in all areas and the urgent need for federal aid for recovery and top-notch levees — the race turned on leadership styles.

Nagin, a janitor's son from a black, working-class neighborhood, is known for his improvisational, some say impulsive, rhetoric. After Katrina plunged his city into chaos, Nagin was both scorned and praised for a tearful plea for the federal government to "get off their (behinds) and do something" and his now-famous remark that God intended New Orleans to be a "chocolate" city.

In his victory speech, Nagin promised his cheering supporters, "You're not going to get a typical Ray Nagin speech. I'm not going to get into trouble tonight, trust me."

He reached out to President Bush, thanking him for keeping his commitment to bring billions of dollars for levees, housing and incentives to the city.

And as for Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, with whom he feuded in the wake of the storm, Nagin thanked her "for what she's getting ready to do."

"It's time for a real partnership," he said. "It's time for us to get together and rebuild this city."

Nagin's speech capped a night of jubiliation that began building as it became evident that he would win. Frequent cheers went up from Nagin supporters watching vote tallies come in. A jazz band played at his election night headquarters on the same Canal Street block where emergency responders and journalists took refuge when the city was covered in water nine months ago.

Landrieu, who served 16 years in the state House before being elected to his current post of lieutenant governor two years ago, had touted his polished political skills and his ability to bring people together.

He's the scion of a political dynasty known as Louisiana's version of the Kennedys — the brother of Sen. Mary Landrieu (news, bio, voting record) and son of New Orleans' last white mayor, Moon Landrieu, who left office in 1978.

In conceding the race, Landrieu echoed the theme of his campaign — a call for unity.

"One thing is for sure — that we as a people have got to come together so we can speak with one voice and one purpose," he said. "Join with me in supporting Mayor Nagin."

Fewer than half of New Orleans' 455,000 pre-Katrina residents are living in the city, and a large number of blacks scattered by the storm have yet to return.

Evacuees arrived by bus from as far as Atlanta and Houston to vote. More than 25,000 ballots were cast early by mail or fax or at satellite polling places set up around Louisiana earlier in the month — 5,000 more than were cast early in the primary.

Turnout appeared to be on-par with the April 22 primary, when about 37 percent of eligible voters cast ballots.

Nagin, who had widespread support from white voters four years ago, lost much of that support in the primary but got a much stronger showing this time.

Voter Elliot Pernell was philosophical about his vote for the incumbent.

"He's been through the experience already," he said, "and won't make the same mistakes."

Among the first to vote was 61-year-old Alice Howard, who was rescued after three days on her roof following Katrina and evacuated to Houston.

"I want the city to come back," she said. "This is my city. This is home to me. ... I want to make sure the correct person takes care of home."

This goes to show you niggers will vote for a fellow nigger no matter how inept they may be over a White, something WN already know.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060521/ap_on_el_st_lo/new_orleans_mayor

New Orleans is a nigger city. They deserve a nigger mayor.

I remember in the opening days of the Katrina disaster hearing an unedited radio interview from Nagin. He openly wept, screamed for help from the Feds (Whites) and then warned that he could not be responsible for the actions of the "refugees", many of whom he said were violent drug addicts who had not gotten their "fix" in days due to the storm.

I kid you not.

The same Ray Nagin who was too stupid to get 300 New Orleans' school buses moving out of town with his beloved chocolate people. Crying and screaming for "the man" to do something, but he couldn't be bothered to do anything himself.

Maybe he's got the old Marion Berry "disease". Snnniiiffff! Oooh yea, dat's duh stuff, bro.

I actually prefer all those NY's nigs back to NY. Nagin is a stupid and inept mayor but he's black and he tries to lure all those nigs back to NY. I say, let them do it.