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January 28, 2006

new orleans chocolate drop

  its all comin along just fine ....







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" New Orleans could lose as much as 80 percent

 of its black population "

sez

 an analysis by Brown University 



Of the 354,000 people who lived 

in New Orleans neighborhoods 

where the subsequent damage 

was moderate to severe, 

75 percent were black,

 29 percent lived below the poverty line,

 more than 10 percent were unemployed,

 and more than half were renters,

 black population will  not return for several reasons: 

their neighborhoods would not be rebuilt,

 they would be unable to afford the relocation costs,

 or

 they would put down roots in other cities. 



If the projections are realized,

 the New Orleans population 

will shrink to about 140,000 

from its prehurricane level of 484,000,

 and the city, nearly 70 percent black

 before the storm,

 will become majority white.



 

the Bring New Orleans Back Commission,

 calls for a four-month building moratorium 

in heavily damaged areas.



 



 William H. Frey, a demographer 

at the Brookings Institution 

called Dr. Logan's projections 

"a worst-case scenario 

that will come about 

only if these evacuees

 see that they have no voice 

in what is going on." 

 

"If they didn't have enough resources

 to get out before the storm," 

 "how can we expect them to have 

the wherewithal to return?"



amen

and 

dear mister tipton.......

start cuttin my   "mid-stream" checks  



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