Another SJW type article. A lot of socioeconomic factors like education level, family structure,  are left out of the article.



http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/28/news/new-orleans-recovery-blacks/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom



Katrina10.org, a web site created by the city of New Orleans to commemorate its revitalization 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, ticks off a number of successes: major rebuilding projects, criminal justice and education reforms and the rebirth of neighborhoods.



But for some black residents of New Orleans, the fruits of the recovery have been far more elusive.



"It's very easy to get caught up in the shiny new buildings, the renovated airport," said Erika McConduit-Diggs the president and chief executive of the Urban League of Greater New Orleans. "But when you really start peeling back the layers and digging deeper into who specifically has benefited from the recovery, you see a lot of inequities."



According to a report released this week by the Urban League, whites in New Orleans are benefiting the most from the economic recovery. Not only are they earning far more income, but they are also more likely to be employed and work in better paying jobs than black residents.



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Related: A fennel buld grows in the 9th Ward



Availability of affordable housing is another big area for concern. After the storm, the city razed some of its largest public housing developments. It was a decision that was welcomed by some as an opportunity to dismantle the economic segregation that was created by clusters of low-income units. But it was hotly contested by others who feared a loss of affordable housing stock.



The city has since built new housing, but some of these newer developments have fewer units than the ones they were meant to replace.



"We haven't built back a one-to-one ratio of affordable housing units," said McConduit-Diggs. "That creates a significant challenge for people who want to return."



KatrinaTruth, a
web site created by a consortium of racial justice groups, reports that
there are now only some 2,000 public housing units available in the
city today compared with 12,270 before the storm. It also notes that 99%
of the 4,440 families that are on waiting lists for public housing are
African-American. ...

So things are pretty much like before Katrina.  Guess Uncle Sugar should have made things better for them.  

For fucks sake, they have had 10 years to get their shit together.  I go there at least twice a year and nothing has changed since 2005 except hotel and drink prices.

Where's Kanye when you need him?

Just give them each $50,000 cash and an iPhone 6 in gold.

Problem solved.

Professional victims.

But it's their own "chocolate city". How can they get left behind.

It's past time for blacks to take responsibility for themselves and stop being little whiney, useless titty babies.

The .gov aren't your parents.  Taxpayers aren't your parents.

Get your shit together.  

There is a reason no one likes you and it isn't because of racism.  It's because you fucking suck at life and make it the fault of everyone else.

Sack it up.

The Vietnamese there didn`t have a problem. Things that make ya go hhhmmm

It was 10 years ago.

If you haven't recovered by now, fuck off.

For a month...

I heard a statistic the other day about the percentage of African American males in Nola that don't currently have jobs since Katrina. They were saying the number was around 65% unemployment. They were saying what a travesty it was.

What they didn't say was what the unemployment rate was before Katrina. Hint....it was higher.


Selective truth is really a lie.

The only way to fix NOLA without getting accused of being rassis is to replace all the homies and welfare queens with folks from the Caribbean.  See what happens then.

Cops are a protected class but overt racism is still embraced by the ARF.

 

Just give them all a million dollars and be done with it. Thatll buy a few months peace. Maybe.

They don't care about rebuilding, until someone else is footing the bill. Or just kept as is for a reason to feel sorry for them and their blight. Poor us, feed us clothe us, give us a home...

But we are going to hate you, curse you, attack you, while you are helping us out, yet, again...

Florida will gladly donate the Haitian population to NOLA.

Overt racism my ass.



You sound like you're part of the problem.

Yeahhh id say you're going to get a small vacation, minimum.

For what?

Was that racist?  Christ almighty.

There are a ton of white people that suck at life too.

There we go.  

education and work ethic are what's doing that.

If you don't work, you don't eat.

Seems simple enough.

Well I am blackish. (mongolia river baldwin county creole). So I guess in your eyes I am.

 

Double-tap. Cant we all just get along?

Kinda hard to recover if nobody is contributing to any sort of recovery.

FSA FTW.

This crowd would all go out and buy a new SUV and continue to live out of FEMA trailers.

I can't afford a certain neighborhood. :(

Boo mother fucking hoo...

Lol.  Don't care.  We were fortunate and had very minor wind damage from Katrina.  In fact, we were both able to move to offices in Baton Rouge and enrolled our kids in school until we returned home a couple months later, when our offices and school here reopened.  We were lucky as my family is in Baton Rouge, so we had a place to stay.  It was depressing as hell to come back here on the weekends as my husband and kids were able to come home about a month before me, so I would go home on the weekends.  The destruction, stores open intermittently, people lined up for ice and MREs.  The losses.  Their was just an air of sadness.  Thankfully, my church had no damage and we who were able could worship together on Sundays.  

A chaplain I know who is a member of my church, but was a Chaplain at Charity Hospital was there at work when the waters started to rise.  He was there for several days with no power and flooded waters.  Charity no longer exists and many of them have lost their jobs and their work "family."

Others I know?  Not so lucky.  2 of my bosses lost their homes and their memories / photos.  Lost it all.  One in Lakeview and another in NO East.  Others had severe damage and had to use Road Home loans.   But these people have moved on.  Bought new homes, the others have repaired.

No sympathy for those who continue to sit and whine and wait for "free" stuff.  Don't want you back.

I don't blame those who stayed behind although it was embarrassing watching the Dome on TV.  Those that live on the Gulf Coast know that we usually evacuate and nothing happens.  So you stay home and hold down the fort.  Katrina didn't do this to NOLA.  The broken levies did it.  Tired of hearing about it.  Mississippi people got it bad.  They aren't whining and waiting.

now you are offending blacks and whites?

I went to New Orleans for years and years shortly after Katrina hauling the household hazardous waste out after the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers collected it. Year to year there was almost imperceptible change and improvement and renovation. Years later people the still had blue tarps on their roofs and FEMA trailers in their yards.


My Katrina work started shortly after the hurricane and did not conclude for six or seven years. It seems I could almost count on one hand the times I saw someone lifting a finger to do anything to improve their situation in New Orleans.




Contrast this with Houston and Galveston after our hurricane. I lived just north of downtown at the time.  I rode out the hurricane on Heights Boulevard in my in my apartment.  While the eye of the hurricane was passing over I, along with most of the other people in my neighborhood, started cleaning up while there was some calm.




In the morning after the hurricane I cleaned up my property in the first few hours and I and my neighbors cleaned up our street that day. Citizens brought out chainsaws, shovels, brooms, etc. and the fallen trees were cut up and neatly stacked the debris was swept and piled and everything else that needed to be done that day was done.  Except for the power outages and the repairs that required professional help we took care of our own.




I was back at work the next day headed to Galveston to pick up a load of salvage drums with mercaptan from the local utility that had a spill. I could not spit out the window of my big truck while heading through Galveston without hitting someone with a broom, a shovel, a chainsaw, a wheelbarrow or something else to clean up with. The people of Houston and Galveston got off their asses and took care of their problems.




I was in New Orleans on a weekly basis for years and I cannot say that I saw anything of the sort going on there.




-p.


 

I should have known better than to wade into any racial argument here.  Mea culpa.

If I ruffled any feathers I apologize.  If you want my account, you can have it.

I'm tired of reading about all of these poor ethnic groups.  Everyone is responsible for themselves.  No one is entitled to anything but what the constitution and the bill of rights have to say.

This is all nonsense.

And magnolia river creoles

 

Are you a useless, whiney, titty baby?  Then you aren't in my eyes.

Next time I'll qualify with SOME.

Peace. As a brownie I struggle with the constitution hit. Hard to revere a doc that didn't apply to your people.

 

I do have moobs . . .



 

They left.  And never came back.

The truth is racist.

You serious?

Yeah, I don't buy that argument.  The constitution applies to everyone.  If it doesn't it should.

Yes. I'm no historian but that doc protected select people only.

 

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