I saw this the other day and since there were more important issues to consider I let it ride until now.
When I heard what he said I read between the lines.
You know there are developers out there just rubbing their greedy hands together waiting to cash in on "God's urban renewal". I am terribly afraid that New Orleans will come back as a condoed, gentrified whites only pretend New Orleans, something that will only remind people of what it used to be.
What I heard the mayor saying was that New Orleans was and always should be a city with a large share of people of color. That is part of its culture.
What they should be doing is bringing in urban planners with experience in affordable housing and use the process as a model of how government can be a force for good in people's lives.
waitaminute
When I heard what he said I read between the lines.
You know there are developers out there just rubbing their greedy hands together waiting to cash in on "God's urban renewal". I am terribly afraid that New Orleans will come back as a condoed, gentrified whites only pretend New Orleans, something that will only remind people of what it used to be.
What I heard the mayor saying was that New Orleans was and always should be a city with a large share of people of color. That is part of its culture.
What they should be doing is bringing in urban planners with experience in affordable housing and use the process as a model of how government can be a force for good in people's lives.
Unfortunately that's not likely.
sigh,