Reply #13: Hmm... You'll have to spell it out for me [View All]

I don't get it.

The problem with the 9th Ward is they're scapegoating it for problems that exist in white areas like Metairie and Lakeview, too.

Like "You can't rebuild the levees, they'll just sink further into the muck."

Or "It's just too far below sea level."

Or "It's hopeless, their mortgages will be taken away from them anyway and they can't get insurance because of the (poor and black) location."

Or "That's an unhealthy environment for raising children, let's move them all to a converted Japanese internment camp like both the sherriff of Portland Ore. and the conservative officials suggested. A rural, whiter area. That's worth the loss of their loved ones, for the chance to raise their children in a structured environment. Where Wal-Mart can employ them."

These sorts of excuses never stopped anybody when the lives in danger were rich and white.