10 years later, and I don't care about Kanye West

"My brother kept us safe"


lol

"And lots of big companies have big plans to turn it into a real tourist town."

Yes, lots more hotels & casinos and "historical" districts that would basically be Disneyland versions of New Orleans.

And they won't even have to push a lot of poor people out of the way to build this shit. Not that they mind pushing poor people out to build shit, but paying public relations firms to tell the public you're not an asshole for pushing poor people out to build your shit cuts into your profits.

Cities all over the country are being gentrified by left-leaning swipples. If it wasn't Katrina, it would have been the trustafarians, IT nerds, and other white-collar professionals who are moving back to the city and buying 0K condos in neighborhoods that used to be war zones.

It's not like poor blacks are being thrown on the street. They're just being relocated to the suburbs via the Section 8 program so wealthy whites and asians can reclaim all of the convenient urban neighborhoods.

Binro is all over this shit.

Void 71,

It would be just as tragic if the long-time residents of New Orleans had been pushed out by gentrification.

You talk about poor neighborhoods being "War Zones". What exactly do you mean? Do you mean they just have that "bombed-out" look? Do you mean actual gang warfare? Do these problems disappear by magic just because all the poor people are relocated?

No, it happens because the presence of law enforcement becomes more visible and because building codes & sanitation codes start being enforced.

So why can't we do those things to make the neighborhoods better for the poor?

Those are questions you need to ask the wealthy limousine liberals who are 'urban planning' poor blacks and hispanics out of some of the most left-leaning cities in the country, including 'Chiraq', which has been under Democrat rule for a century.

Actions speak louder than words, and their actions are sending a very clear message: "Multiculturalism is great as long as it isn't in my backyard."

Void71 doesn't care about black people.

Void 71,

You can't fall back on, "Yeah, well liberals do it, too!" as a debate tactic for the rest of your life.

I am asking you a simple question; why don't we keep poor neighborhoods as safe and clean as middle and upper class neighborhoods?

Here's another one; Why, when we do clean up and protect poor neighborhoods do we allow the landlords who own the property in those neighborhoods to suddenly jack up the rent and push the poor out that way?

I know that one!

Because landlords and their associations bribe politicians a lot better than poor people do.

>>I am asking you a simple question; why don't we keep poor neighborhoods as safe and clean as middle and upper class neighborhoods?

That's a question for the people who live there. All I can say is that there were some really dire hollers near the small working-class town where I grew up and none of them had anywhere near the violent crime problem that urban ghettos have. Maybe it's because poor southern whites don't do the gang thing. At worst, they become pill-snorting juggalos.

>>Here's another one; Why, when we do clean up and protect poor neighborhoods do we allow the landlords who own the property in those neighborhoods to suddenly jack up the rent and push the poor out that way?

Because white and asian yuppies, most of whom consider themselves to be culturally liberal, are willing to tolerate a high rent/property tax/real estate burden to keep blacks out of their neighborhoods. The market is responding to the demands of ideologically dishonest pod people who don't practice what they preach.

5 4 Binro

Void 71, I've lived all my life, approaching half a century, in predominantly rural areas. Violent crime doesn't SEEM to be a problem in places like this, but it is. the nature of the violence is different, though. It's often directed at family members or people living under the same roof. The victims tend not to involve the authorities in such incidents for various reasons. It seems like violence is not as big a problem simply because the violence isn't being reported and tracked.

And I'm guessing if we were to gather up all the scattered impoverished families of this sprawling place and make them all live in a concentrated area of a few square blocks, it wouldn't be long before they started becoming violent with people outside of their families.

And in the inner cities you have the added elements of organized crime and illegal drugs. The cash flow from narcotics is vital to the survival of street gangs and they will kill each other over territorial disputes and innocents will get caught in the crossfire.

Poor people are not inherently more violent than anyone else. They are stressed. When people feel insecure, when they can't be sure of having food, shelter & clothing from one day to the next, they tend to act in irrational ways. They beat their spouse. They beat their kids. They lash out at neighbors over minor disagreements. Even if a poor family manages to remain civil, they are still stressed by their own anxieties and by the frightening behavior of their neighbors. It builds up until even the best people lose control.

Why, in the name of all humanity are we not protecting people from this? This is a major threat to our citizens' physical & emotional health. Why aren't we forbidding companies from shutting down profitable factories because the owners can make a little more money relocating overseas or, even worse just over to another state?

Why aren't we demanding all cities maintain a certain ratio of low-rent housing? Why aren't we demanding high and low value properties be mixed in with one another? Why do we continue to let things like greenspaces and access to water be hoarded by the affluent while the poor are forced to live in decay and pollution?

Politicians talk big about "protecting" Americans. They're going to protect them from crime. They're going to protect them from terrorism. They're going to protect them from Sharia law. They're going to protect them from Mexicans out to steal their jobs. Why aren't they talking about protecting us from internal threats?

How "protected" can people feel if they're living one paycheck away from poverty and they can, through no fault of their own, suddenly lose their home or livelihood?

This is why we need to distinguish between "liberal" and "leftwing", since "liberalism" is totally compatible with every form of rightwing economics.

The thing is? Gentrification as we understand it only exists in the Anglosphere. European inner cities have always been where the upper crust prefer to live, moving the poor to suburbs and planned communities (which aren't any better, but it has an out of sight out of mind thing). The British put up housing blocs and the Americans engaged in White Flight. The wealthy have always preferred to live centrally urban, it's just a Post-War aberration in America.

Not excusing it, just pointing that out.

Maru that's not true. Hijacked liberalism is compatible, sure... but...

::phones all start ringing::

Oh boy.

I think it's one of those cases where everyone thought, "Oh, this has to be on PoETV already." and didn't bother submitting it.

5 stars

I only found out about this after Googling "george bush black people" after the Last Week Tonight episode on the Canadian election, because I didn't get the reference.

It's been on the site before, I'm almost certain. Maybe got lost in the series of tubes

I've seen it here too but it might not have tags.

Stars forever for Mike Myers becoming more uncomfortable on screen than anyone ever

Give him a break, he's Canadian.