New Orleans Didn’t Just Go Nuts -- It’s Been Nuts

Save the hat--I might need it next time I jump to a conclusion, as I most certainly have in the past. If nothing else, you can cover it with tinfoil for the next big conspiracy theory someone posts. :)

I’m cajun. My name is Shante'. Pleased to meet you. And I meant the cajun communities you have to take a boat to get to.

Sadly my stay in that atmosphere was short lived and we went back to pearl river, then new orleans.

The main source of marijuana for the kids around me in middle school who smoked it was one of the girl's parents who was a cop who kept some of what she confiscated regularly. To read, yes I know. My first husband was Italian, and their click is rather special in new orleans. His father worked for tom benson...lots of, err colorful partnerships and such.the end. :)

And no one saw nothin'.

Then it would be 'just like home'.

yeah, and thats not all poisoning things there. I'm out of my mind with what happened in the superdome. I mean what the fffeh?
And everyone is asking where was the security, where the were the people? the good people?
weren’t there enough to out number the bad ones? I heard one person shot one guy either raping or trying to rape a 12 year old.

I have intervened before to try and help people who were being victimized, usually the people who were victimizing them were so surprised and the situation defused. People who prey on other people do so cause they think they can get away with it for the most part, why did the people in the super dome let them get away with it?

And doesn’t the black community care enough about each other and them selves to start doing something about it even just being honest? Why are so many of them so demanding that a government they look at with suspicion anyway keep them on its teat? Where is personal accountability? Why are smart ,courteous, and constructive black people ostracized often by the black community? Called uncle tom or sell out? Yet those who leach off of society and the government more acceptable? I am surrounded by people every day who had nothing as a start, had every opportunity to fail, pass a buck, but live well because they worked hard to get where they are.

Now some are saying bush should have taken power from the state and city, yeah, that would have played out well...oh and they are also saying bush should have forcibly removed people from the city even before the storm, are you kidding? Most of the city is black, it would have been Rodney King times 10, 000 and cities all around this county would be burning, and jessie jackson and al sharpton would be fueling it.

I don’t know why the racial tension in this country is the way it is, I do know a lot of people with microphones make their money off of perpetuating it, I also know a lot of politicians stay in power by feeding it. Why is so much of the black populous in this country self destructive? Letting themselves become so dependant on a government they are sure is out to get them?

You know a picture that often returns to my mind is, one time a beautiful little black boy, maybe 4 years old, came to my apt door, he lived in the apartment next to me, in his little hands he held a glass. He said with his adorable innocent tiny voice, “can I have some milk please?” He was so cute, I said “awe, sweet babe, of course you can!” and I filled his glass up and he said thank you and walked back towards his apt. His mother opened the door just in time to see him walking up, saw me watching to make sure he got back, she took the cup of milk from his hand, threw the glass of milk in his face and said “you don’t take nothing from white people!” the milk ran down his face, I stood there in horror and pity for the kid, he had no chance.

The mother also complained about loudly on her porch of the fact she felt her welfare check should be more, and so should her food stamps. I guess those were paid for strictly by black tax payers? But that attitude isn’t rare and that is a mild example. I see that little boys face covered in the white milk, dripping down like tears in my mind often.

New Orleans was festering due to poor government, perpetuation of victim mentality among the black community, it being very easy to take entitlements, in fact demand them and more (out side of the fischer project youll see parked a bunch of cars a lot nicer than what I drive), the justice system a joke, the schools, even back when I was in them, just a joke, violence, no respect for anything, racism...shadeism (it’s a word!) even, since light skinned black people got abused by black er people too, no personal responsibility expected, everything that happened or that anyone did, quickly blamed on someone or something else such as history, conspiracy, poverty whitey what ever. No one wants to be honest, not enough in the black community care enough about the black community to be very honest and expect more from each other and themselves, rather they blame and take and want more from a government they think are out to get them anyway.

I don’t understand, I’m sick in my head and sick in my belly. Id like to be an optimist and say, maybe something good will come out of this, this dirty bath for new orleans that has left it naked, its most private embarrassing parts exposed might be an opportunity for drastic change, but I know, too many people in power in the Louisiana/NO government thrive off of the festering filth that we now see in stereo.

Much of my family is liberal, but this article is too persuasive to be easily dismissed, even by a fanatic liberal.

My friend, you underestimate the liberal mind...