Reply #1: Great find. I just read an article last night that

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explained how the Superdome was built after taking over property (homes) of black working class people and a cemetery where blacks were buried, forcing more blacks into the housing projects and poorer sections of the city. I think you'd find it interesting.


Here's a long quote, followed by the URL:

"For days I have been thinking of Sitting Bull's observation that the United States knows how to make everything, but doesn't know how to distribute it. He was being generous in attributing the lack of equitable distribution of goods to benign ignorance rather than to design. But, he knew better. Once in Chicago while performing with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West, Sitting Bull spoke through his translator to the huge crowd of ragged white men, women, and barefoot children: "I know why your government hates me. I am their enemy. But why do they hate you?"The U.S. Cavalry, the 7th to be exact, Custer's old regiment, massacred Sitting Bull's unarmed, starving people in December 1890 at Wounded Knee, a few days after Sitting Bull himself had been shot and killed by the federal Indian police."

http://www.counterpunch.org/dunbar09072005.html