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sheshe2

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6. "The levy system in N.O. was designed to flood one ward ...

Fri Jan 17, 2014, 01:01 AM

Jan 2014

the 9th ward ... to save the rest of N.O. The 9th ward, also, was the only section of N.O. proper that Black folks could purchase on home (in the 50s, 60s and into the 70s), and later, was where the 'Projects' were built ... So yes, the deaths in the 9th ward had a racist component."

This is so very sad. It breaks my heart.

It is not really a hi-jack. It is the continuing heartbreaking story of how we treat the communities of color.

I weep for the lost souls and hate the soulless bastards that engineered this and the administration that left them to die.

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White Privilege, Racism, White Denial & The Cost of Inequality [View all] freshwest Jan 2014 OP

It does belong here FW JustAnotherGen Jan 2014 #1

Thanks, JustAnotherGen. It belongs in GD, but... n/t freshwest Jan 2014 #2

Considering posting this in GD. I've posted it in the BOG. This is the truth. This explains America freshwest Jan 2014 #3

At around 18 minutes JustAnotherGen Jan 2014 #9

Goddamn, he gets it cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #10

I don't do call outs JustAnotherGen Jan 2014 #15

Thank you so much cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #16

Yeah this ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2014 #18

I was scanning after reading the call out thread on Tarheel... And the term discussed, freshwest Feb 2014 #19

Hi-Jack ALERT ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2014 #4

Growing up in the South, I saw it everyday. Communties of color got the worst polluting industries. freshwest Jan 2014 #5

The party turned into a racial food fight ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2014 #11

"The levy system in N.O. was designed to flood one ward ... sheshe2 Jan 2014 #6

The Corps of Engineers requested funding for the levees. The GOP Congress ignored it repeatedly. In freshwest Jan 2014 #7

TRIGGER WARNING. ONE body wrapped in a sheet. A view of human misery in NOLA: freshwest Jan 2014 #8

All you've really wanted was someone to truely look up to you sheshe2 Jan 2014 #12

Yes, but so are these to me: freshwest Jan 2014 #13

It hurts, does it not freshwest. sheshe2 Jan 2014 #14

THANKS FOR THE WARNING. NOLALady Jan 2014 #17