Reply #57: my aunt's still trying to get a loan to rebuild on one of her properties in NOLA

[NorthernSpy]

She's the one who was missing for days after the storm hit, because she wouldn't leave while my uncle was still in the hospital.

Right now, she's living in one of our family's properties, but she really wants to go back to New Orleans. At first she didn't, but now she does. I imagine a lot people feel the same way.

And mind you, she didn't live in the 9th Ward. And she has property and savings. Think how hard it is for the poor, black 9th-Warders to put their lives back together under these circumstances.

And moving those "poor black people" out, and rebuilding NOLA without them, will give white southerners another opportunity to blame all their problems on black people. "Look how safe and beautiful it is since Katrina".

Yeah, early on, that was the dream. But the irony is that with FEWER blacks around, New Orleans' murder rate promptly skyrocketed, and everyone is now terrified of the place. Disneyfication looks to be a long way off.