Chocolate At The End Of The Day
“We ask black people … It’s time for us to come together. It’s time for us to rebuild New Orleans – the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans,” mayor Ray Nagin said. “And I don’t care what people are saying in Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.”
New Orleans Retains a Black Majority
NEW ORLEANS (AP) September 12, 2007 - New Orleans is narrowly retaining a black majority after Hurricane Katrina, according to a study released Wednesday by The Brookings Institution.
The study determined that while blacks left the city at a much faster rate than whites, New Orleans was still 58 percent black during 2006. Before Katrina, which hit Aug. 29, 2005, the city was 67 percent black, according to the U.S. census.
“It’s certainly still a predominantly African-American city,” said William Frey, a demographer and senior fellow at Washington, D.C.- based Brookings. “Speculation that there was not going to be a black majority in the city is not true, according to these estimates.”
While several studies have examined utility hookups and postal deliveries to estimate the population that has returned to New Orleans since Katrina, The Brookings Institution study is the first comprehensive look at the shifting demographics since the storm.
Through a special arrangement with the U.S. Census Bureau, Brookings gleaned statistics from new census data also released Wednesday that the institution called a “fuller picture on who moved out and who is coming back.”
The Census Bureau estimated that New Orleans had about 455,000 residents a month before Katrina hit and was down to about 223,400 in July 2006. Other studies have shown that the city has regained approximately 60 percent of its population.
Allison Plyer, deputy director of the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, a nonprofit that has looked at population return to the city, said: “It’s very important to remember these numbers are from last year and there’s been significant change in the population since.”
Plyer said an estimated 80,000 people have returned to New Orleans from 2006 through today. But like the experts at Brookings, she believed that the city’s majority black population would not be supplanted.
“It’s probably still true that the city has fewer African-American residents than it did pre-Katrina, but it probably has more African- Americans than it did last year,” Plyer said, noting increased public school enrollment and other factors.
The Brookings study also found that metropolitan New Orleans had become “more well-educated, less poor and had a higher percentage of homeowners” since the storm.
For instance, 21 percent of the people who left the city after Katrina had less than a high school education, while 32 percent who have moved to the city after the storm are college graduates.
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They have never felt responsible to fix that mess themselves, they just sit in their murderous shit hole of a city and culture waiting on the man to bring a check.
Fuck new orleans and the ignorant racist fools that live there. I bet that shit hole will start looking like Mogadishu soon.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:19 am“Be respectful of others”. Read your own blog and think again. I know this upsets you, but New Orleans, an American city, IS rebuilding. It’s “lazy” citizens will not rest until it is done. It is too bad they have to do it without the support of its fellow citizens like you. Some people have an odd definition of what patriotism is. God needs to find his way into your soul. I find this post sad beyond words.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:54 amI can’t find the part where anybody called anybody else lazy.
I guess that’s just projection.
September 12th, 2007 at 5:48 amWith leaders like Kathleen Blanko (purposely misspelled),
September 12th, 2007 at 6:23 amSchool Bus Nagin, and that daughter of corruption herself…the ever-popular Sister Mary Landrieu, N.O. and the state of LA are in great shape. NOT!!
ya’ know i had a flood in my basement the other day, and damn if the fed’s didn’t show up to help me.
c’mon, if you know that your city is in the way of a freakin’ hurricane…LEAVE!!!
why, exactly, would you rebuild a city that is sinking? if the army corp of engineers were honest they would say let’s just walk away from this, reguardless of the back lash. let’s rebuild a on a more stable site, you know, one less inclined to be inundated with water.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:58 amnagin called for a chocolate city, sounds pretty racist to me. As for racists, I find them reprehensible and a reflection of a underdeveloped intelligence.
the citizens chose those leaders, and things are going so well they are wanting more of that quality leadership
They served their city well, didn’t they?
In a democracy you get the government you deserve
I feel for the people of New Orleans that have suffered, but I also feel they are in the mess they are in because of their own actions or inactions and for believing in politicians like nagin who use divisive, racist techniques to hold power while neglecting those he is supposed to help.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:41 am