Posted on 03/23/2007 5:31:20 AM PDT by Ellesu
Sex offenders, drug dealers and gang members are not welcome in New Orleans. That's the crux of a measure passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill would prohibit people convicted of certain crimes from living in the soon-to-be re-opened housing projects in New Orleans, while at the same time giving others priority to return.
The measure proposed by Congressman Bobby Jindal will make it easier for handicapped, elderly and working people to move back into New Orleans public housing, while locking out those with shady pasts. Some evacuees say it's a racist move by politicians they don't trust.
Stephanie Montague Enines says, "We vote them in and once they get in, they don't do a damn thing." Stephanie Montague Enines pulls no punches when she talks about returning home to New Orleans as she plays dominos, a game she's mastered since she lost her home in New Orleans and moved to Renaissance Village. Enines says, "If New Orleans was a predominately white New Orleans, it would have been fixed up."
Enines says a proposal designed to get working people back to New Orleans is broken. The measure, which already passed the U.S. House of Representatives, would make it easier for elderly, handicapped and working people to get public housing in New Orleans. However, it would also prohibit convicted sex offenders, gang members and drug dealers from moving in.
Enines says, "The projects has always been for poor people, you understand, poor people. Now, all of a sudden you want to keep the poor out because they talk about the drug dealers and the drug users. Well, that's poor people. Whatcha gonna do with them now? You want to make the projects for subsidized and for middle class and for rich people, still leaving your black folks out, like, you know, like out here."
Congressman Bobby Jindal, who proposed the measure, says there's nothing racist about it. Jindal believes the measure has the support to pass the Senate. That will likely come up next week.
They should start by keeping them out of office.
And Texas.
so they allow all these people back in, she'd be the first to complain about all the crime..damned if you do, damned if you don't..
She has it all figured out. If white people didn't sit around bitching and playing dominos, they might just fix things up.
(And, of course, Ray Nagin will note that those convicted of those particular crimes are disproportionately black, and thus the measures must actually be racist and an attempt to re-color Chocolate City.)
>>Some evacuees say it's a racist move by politicians they don't trust.
Then get a job and don't depend on public assistance. Otherwise, STHU.
I also guess the already high murder rate in new orleans isn't high enough for her..
Why didnt she spend the time spent playing Dominoes in getting a job.
Only in New Orleans could they get pissed because the government doesnt want the drug dealers to come back.
How does the Congress expect the poor people to get their drugs if the dealers arent allowed back?
Maybe those that support themselves figured out it's not a good idea to live in a hole the ground on the coast.
"Sex offenders, drug dealers and gang members are not welcome in New Orleans."
LOL!!! Far as I could get.
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