But that was not all that was done.
Municipalities abusing immenient domain was frequently used. Just a couple of examples were new loops and freeway interchanges that did not follow a straight line, but cut in two and condemned minority housing.
Other communities that existed since the Civil War where people had held onto their property and communities and churches with pride, only to earn the baleful eye of developers. The city would work with those who wanted the land for more expensive profits.
The POC endured decades of no work done on streets, sidewalks, water and sewer; the uitility firms likewise gave them short shrift; their schools were left to deteriorate. It was coming to a head in the late seventies with Carter's full tilt push for affirmative action and then along came Reagan, but the poison seed had been planted and watered.
Eventually, these neighorhoods were destroyed both urban and rural, part of what had held them off were government union jobs that blacks were not discriminated in getting and were becoming middle class. Having worked with many AA in my company, I can tell you that they were nothing like the racist caricatures we've heard about from Rush, Boortz and the rest of the fascist thugs of media. They were hard working, conservative with their money, religious and not the image presented in films and on television,
I knew about what happened in NOLA and believe it... What kind of eruption did the party have?
And I don't consider it a thread jack as the catastrophe of NOLA and what the neo-cons worked for after the water went down - was a free enterprise zone that they then sought to make free of blacks. Do you rememeber Pat Robertson and the rest of the slime denigrating the culutre of New Orleans, as he did with Haiti because of so-called voodoo and pacts with the Devil?
That has nothing to do with the public policy of refusing to repair those levees that had held back storm waters for most of these people's lives. And it was not the first time it happened there, either.
Yes, it's genocide. And when they were sent to the Astrodome in Houston like war refuges, that Barbara Bush called them 'lucky duckies.' It pissed me off.
Back to the environmental scheme, did you ever see what happened on both sides of the Rio Grande in Texas and Mexico?
Back to the AA thing and healthcare - yes, people that suffer pollution do have more health problems. And we own it to them to get them better. If not, we have little moral justification to claim it as our idea.
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