Part 1 of 2: The Lower Ninth: Ground Zero for Reparations and Education

[AvEryBadApPLe]

it's rather sick how americans died on the streets for days, but troops where mobilized in mere hours to go die for oil companies in some desert half way around the world. no wonder this outsourced country is falling apart. the owners just aren't interested in it anymore.

[TeeterCamo]

Certainly an educated take, unlike so many other opinion pieces I have been privy to, but I still do not view this as an ethnic cleansing of any kind. This is about education. The poor, not the poor black, are not receiving proper education. A similar video could be made about tornadoes in Kansas with European-Americans. The poor need to realize, via education changes stemming from government (via power of the people), that acceptance of neo-liberalism can be a positive change in their lives.

[hannityforpres]

If a hurricane wiped out my house, I dont know exactly what Id do, but one thing I would never do is demand the government find me a place to live. But then, I have always had a job, paid rent or house payments, and just paid bills. i never had the government help with anything. I cant stand people who demand gov help. Just get a damn job.

[professoroftruth]

Powerful! Keep playing the TRUTH CARD!

[PharaohGoddess]

"these" people have been affected by "you" people every since their ancestors have been in this country that was stolen by "you" people's ancestors and religion!

[lilkayci]

this was a tragedy waiting to happen ,this was a nonpreventable tragic moment . The gov,president, and fema should be prepared so i'll hold those people responsibile for the death of all the indicent races. This jus was a wake up call from mother nature saying that us humanbeing need to unite and become more civilize

[MatthewLeee]

Why, why do we fret about the deeds of people who died hundreds of years ago, why do we have to think in race, instead of thinking of everyone as individuals. Wait, I ask to much.

[PharaohGoddess]

the deeds that happened hundreds of years ago, still affect people that are here now. This country was built on racism. There has been a lot of blood spilt on this land because of racism. Why not ask a rape victim to forget? Why not ask an abused child to forget. What affected our parents and grandparents, ect.. affects us! If you don't have the heart to see that, you're no better than a racist!

[MatthewLeee]

Why, once again, do the sons and daughters carry a grudge against another mans sons and daughters? And why are you in the mentality of a rape victim? And how was this country built on racism? The nation that has one of the richest cultural histories on the planet?

[bbeinke]

IT was a natural disaster. THere are black communities all over the U.S. Why not try to destroy those communities also if this was the case? If they wanted to destroy New Orleans becasue it was full of black people, why would things like affirmative action even be part of our government

[DivineWomb]

Natural disaster? Hurricane Katrina never hit New Orleans. Look it up. Peace!

[PharaohGoddess]

They don't know that Katrina didn't hit N.O. 'cause they don't care and don't want to know. They chose to not see the truth cause it justifies their obvious racism, and comfort in believing that we are the problem for All the problems in our communities!

[DivineWomb]

In regards to them not wanting to know (or give a damn), I totally agree with you. Just like many of them don't want to believe that racism still exists. *rolling my eyes* Well, I guess they don't have to see it because they don't have to deal with it.

[PharaohGoddess]

affirmative action does not help African American people. It was never design to do such! What makes me tired is people's obvious choose to be ignorant of the truth around them. You don't see the truth, 'cause you don't want to!

[MatthewLeee]

Well, we agree there.

[MatthewLeee]

A lot of white politicians, trying to be politically correct, make drug laws, prostitution laws, and minimum wage laws, along with a dismal education system, that do great harm to black communities, of course, none of it is intentional.