Well the City of New Orelans has a chance to change today, that is if the people who now live there don't have their votes cancelled out by the thousands of non-residents who are voting from other states or being bussed in from cities like Atlanta. Apparently when black Democrats are threatened, as Mayor Ray "Willie Wonka" Nagin is, they'll do anything to keep the power, including putting out the fiction that all of the people who were relocated last August after Katrina are somehow still New Orleans residents nine months later. You wonder about this but then read the other media stories about how New Orleans is now a mostly white city since the white people came back, and suddenly it's all too sadly clear. The black Democratic power structure has to claim that every black person who didn't move back by now is somehow still a resident even though they have ID cards and drivers' licenses from their new homes and get their mail delivered to apartments leased in their names in just about any city but New Orleans. As an example, I used to live there but I no longer do. Can I get a ballot too?
The sad thing is that the people who ARE back and who are valid New Orleans residents are the ones who are cleaning up the city, creating the news jobs, serving fellow residents and paying the wages and taxes. These are the people putting New Orleans back on it's feet but if the black Democrats have their way, they won't get to decide on the future of the city that they're rebuilding. The decision will be made by bus loads of welfare recipients from Atlanta, Houston, Memphis and other cities, mostly people who used to live in New Orelans but are being brought back now and handed sheets of paper telling them who to vote for. If enough of them are rounded up and shipped back, Nagin's (and the black Democrats') hold on the city will be preserved in spite of his ineptness which contributed so greatly to this disaster. If there were justice, the Nagin forces would be limited to using the busses that he left to be ruined in the bus yards in the advance of the flood. It's ironic how he wouldn't use busses to get people out of harm's way but now that his job is on the line, there's busses for everyone.
All I can do from here is hope that either Ron Forman or Mitch Landrieu is able to top the 50% needed to send Nagin packing. The city deserves quality leadership and it won't get that from a racist clown who didn't do a thing for the residents when his leadership was called for.
I hope that someone reads this and casts a vote for me. Give it to either Forman or Landrieu and help save my favorite city in the world.
I like the way you think. And now from North Baton Rouge, the evacuees are upset that they're no longer being given 3 meals a day along with their trailers. http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/2676891.html
ReplyDeleteYou make several false claims and assumptions.
ReplyDeleteFor one, New Orleans is NOT a 'mostly white city' post Katrina.
Secondly, about those buses- nagin sent buses around to the neighborhoods PRE Katrina- few took him up on the offer. Then, he declared a MANDATORY evacuation. Those who stayed were doing so ILLEGALLY. Short of the impossible task of sending cops around to force people from their homes at gunpoint, there was little nagin could do.
He even made sure to announce that the Superdome was NOT a refuge of last resort to discourage residents from staying in the city.
As to your other racist remarks- it seems you have forgotten that Nagin was the 'white corporate man's' Mayor.
And have you also failed to consider that whites could just as easily be voting despite the fact that they are not returning?
I know of several white former residents who made a point of voting against Nagin even though they have no intention of moving back.
Don't hear you railing on them.
...in fact, you prolly did same yourself.
"White corporate man's mayor?"
ReplyDeleteOh yeah... that's not a racist comment at all. I love you Naginites and your world view that says that everyone is racist but you guys.
BTW, the idea that New Orleans is now a majority-white city comes from the headlines of many of the nation's largest news services. Don't like it? Start a letter-writing campaign. Need the addresses for Gannet and Knight-Ridder news services or the Associated Press?