New Orleans problems are deep, you described them well. Let me add a native’s POV.
There is a desperate mentality that prevails here. It goes across all races and cultures. It’s worse after Katrina because now everyone KNOWS how temporary life here is. Everyone is ‘live now, get what you want, the hell with the future’ because there is the realization that ONE more storm WILL end things.
It’s too old, too broken, too decayed. It can’t be fixed, nature is against New Orleans. Add the pervasive mindset that has survived from its piracy days to the illiteracy and thugs to the minority isolationist mentality of those who work and protect themselves as best they can, and you have a sense of the feeling here.
It’s a sense of doom, of everyone for themselves. The uptown elite think they are New Orleans with their galas and guarded mansions. The downtown criminals KNOW they are New Orleans and rule the streets with brutal, tribal mentality. Everyone else laughs at the delusions of the first group while trying to avoid the second.
Landrieu is a joke.
The city has the police force and the judicial system that the CRIMINAL CLASS MAJORITY has elected. Local tv has more commercials for lawyers and bail bondsmen than anything else.
This baby is dead because someone shot the woman carrying her in the back. I would wager intentionally. The perpetrators did not come from Mars- they came from black mothers who raised them with brutality and lack of all morals and feelings. Until that can be changed, the killing and crime will go on.
God is still keeping the worst from happening, but nobody is believing it. Which fact ultimately actually works to get them to finally cast around desperately enough to find God once more.
When faith in a God of ironclad promises to rebuild returns, so will social confidence.