Now they'll see some real racism.
At the risk of being called a bigot, I must respectfully disagree. The New Orleans "refugees" just may find life better in their adopting cities. Or, if they are the welfare cases that some think they are, the coming "payments" for the disaster that some Black leaders are suggesting (like the payments to 9-11 families) may lead to a whole new cycle of welfare-ism in new localities. Time and events will tell.
What is that suppose to mean?
The only racism left in the US is in the minds and hearts of the elites.
Like MLK Jr. said...the Northern "moderate" is more dangerous than the Southern Bigot.
Isn't it time to give that sort of thing a rest? Generations of Northerners assumed based on what they heard from the South that things were better for Blacks in the North. It was hard to argue with what they saw on the television news in the 1950s or the early 1960s. The riots of the 1960s and 1970s gave Northerners something to think about and you don't hear that sort of talk so often. Most of us have come to realize that the Northern states weren't particularly welcoming to African-Americans.
Indeed for the last 20 or 30 years, the assumption has been that Blacks do better in the South. But after what's happened in New Orleans, maybe we should give that sort of talk a rest as well. It's as smug and self-serving than the old assumptions Northerners had about the South. It doesn't look like the poorest in New Orleans were better off than the poor in Northern cities, or that worst-off have been more able to overcome the poverty of the past. It remains to be see whether or not the refugees who come North will make more out of their lives than they did in New Orleans.
If you didn't like the kind of assumptions Northerners made about the South, maybe you shouldn't make similar ones about Northerners. We keep hearing about how the South now isn't what it was a half-century ago. Fair enough, but you might reflect that the rest of the country has changed as well.