so lemme get this right...the people who have lots of money and were able to protect themselves with insurance are getting all the help now...while the people who truly need help are getting none...
Yes, the richer neighborhoods are getting rebuilt faster, but as has been pointed out, those neighborhoods have the benefit of being built in more protected areas of town, and have the benefit of residents who had insurance. Where is the evidence of impropriety?
but could they at least make a concerted effort to lure the black residents back to town
Why? Why should black people get more attention than anyone else?
...whites are getting trailers in new orleans while blacks have to move to other parts of the country...govt money is being spent in only white neighborhoods...shouldnt it at least be equal...
That is your claim, but this article isn't about what you are talking about:
Disparities in wealth and in the distance of evacuees from their ruined houses are dictating, in many cases, which neighborhoods will be part of the city's future and which will be consigned to its history.
Disparities in wealth: got mo money
Distance of evacuees: rich folk could pay to stay in more expensive, local establishments. Poor folk had to go where the government could find places for them.
"Every day and every week is better, and people need to know that," said Bea Quaintance. With the help of a trailer from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that is parked in her front yard, she and her husband, Gary, and their son, Steven, were the first family back on Memphis Street. "I think this country has done a wonderful job of providing for us."
You may have a point here, but the question is, where should FEMA spend their efforts - help in the neighborhoods where people are returning and rebuilding, or in the areas which have been abandoned? Do you restore utilities and critical services in the neighborhoods where homes are being rebuilt, or to the areas where people can't afford to return?
but blacks were poor so what does it matter...they can just be poor somewhere else right?
Don't confuse the issue - is this about economics, or race? Are you telling me that there are no black people rebuilding in those rich neighborhoods? No white people displaced with no hope of return?
The bottom line is that all the differences described in this article are about economics. Show me where it says that a poor white neighborhood is being rebuilt while a poor black neighborhood is not. Show me where it says that a rich black family didn't have their power restored when their rich white neighbor did. This article is full of racism...
...black residents, especially poor ones from the Lower Ninth Ward and the city's public housing projects, were much more likely than whites to end up living far out of town, according to city, state and federal studies.
So, no middle class blacks stayed near NO?
... Middle-class whites fled in their own cars and tended not to go so far,
I see, no middle class blacks in New Orleans...and if there were, they sure as hell didn't own cars.
Assumptions made by this article (and you):
1) the poor are not being treated as well as the rich
2) All poor people in NO are black
3) All rich people in NO are white
4) Therefore, white people are being treated better than black people - must be racism.
This is the same crap that happens all the time in the media. There was a building with a cell tower on top, and
7 people in the building got cancer. Must be the cell tower. Let's ignore the fact that there are thousands of buildings with cell towers that don't have similar cancer rates. Let's ignore the fact that there may be other risk factors that these people have in common. Let's ignore the fact that they don't even have the same kind of cancer... The circumstances suit our agenda, so let's use correlation and assume causality.
Utter bullshtein.
Look, if you want to complain about why there are more poor blacks than poor whites, that's great. If you want to show how instutional racism is keeping the black man in low income jobs, go for it. But stop looking for racism where it isn't, and focus your efforts where you can have some hope of solving the problem.
