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They are poor because of decisions they have made. There are opportunities abound for people who are willing to work, not to mention the affirmative action programs, and gov't $ available for schooling for minorities. I had to put up with that "diversity" crap all through college

This is true only in part.

There is a moderately large (say, ten million) population of third-world people living among us. They are concentrated in certain urban and rural areas, and if you don't live or work where they live, they are quite invisible.

Most of them are of African descent, but most Americans of African descent are not like them.

This group of people has little political power, except in urban areas of high concentration, of which the former city of New Orleans was clearly one.

These people of whom I speak are not in a position to benefit from work, or government $ for schooling, or affirmative action (all of which have been a tremendous engine of progress for many other African-descended Americans). They are living like rural Africans live today, they are way, way out of their depth in a 21st-Century first world nation, and nobody has any idea what to do about them.

There is a moderately large (say, ten million) population of third-world people living among us. Most of them are of African descent, but most Americans of African descent are not like them. These people of whom I speak are not in a position to benefit from work, or government $ for schooling, or affirmative action (all of which have been a tremendous engine of progress for many other African-descended Americans). They are living like rural Africans live today, they are way, way out of their depth in a 21st-Century first world nation, and nobody has any idea what to do about them.

This is the crux. And one of the most politically incorrect thoughts a person can voice today. The USA has a huge remnant population of Africans who have never assimilated after hundreds of years in North America. Their behavior is indistinguishable from their kin in Haiti or the Dark Continent. They are only a subgroup of American blacks but a significant drain on us all.

These people of whom I speak are not in a position to benefit from work, or government $ for schooling, or affirmative action

Why are they not in a position to benefit from work? Are they paid in some different currency from everyone else?

Why are they not in a position to benefit from Pell Grants and other government loans for school? I was unaware that only certain poor people were allowed to apply.

Why would they not benefit from affirmative action? Are they a different race of black people not eligible for AA?

This makes no sense.

That is nonsense. The mayor and the entire city itself has propped them up with a welfare lifestyle, in which work seems optional. I know it's easier for some people than others, but how can you claim they have no political power?? How many republicans are in charge down there??