Check this link - you'll see a segregated page - be sure you read on the correct side for your race, and prepare to be confused if you don't fit into a column.
http://www.remembersegregation.org
A British man made an inquiry to a list that many Americans belong to, after reading a story the Observer:
New Orleans post Katrina
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1686412,00.html
True, or not true?
Derek
It's a long, sad (British) story about Katrina & New Orleans, and how the music died (in the neighborhoods).
He was told that some of us had heard alot of this kind of stuff, resulting in the ever widening seperation of classes. Poor neighborhoods are left to decline, and education, and a huge wall to escaping poverty is built. If the politicians won't listen, where do we begin? Do we now finally make a huge push for publicly financed elections, with the Abramoff scandal?
Further in the article, it's likely business as usual in New Orleans. "The uptown streets are immaculate. Where houses were damaged, crews are busy painting and restoring. Power and phone service have been restored long since, the zoo is up and running, Tulane University is about to reopen. In designer coffee houses, upscale whites and blacks swap Katrina war stories with the wry humour of the fully insured."
The article seemed to the Americans Derek asked brutally honest, though probably not what many in the U.S. want to hear.
Another was more direct in his answer:
What you expect? Tis' a Darwinian free-for-all over here (except in the science classrooms). Money talks; compassion walks. NO is a developer's dream and a racist opportunity sent by the Intelligent Designer.
Slugbug
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