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He put the map up on his computer screen and pointed to the river side of the Lower Ninth. “Up until the nineteen-sixties, you would have seen mostly working-class to middle-class ethnic whites living here,” he said. “After school integration, we had white flight over here”—he highlighted St. Bernard’s Parish, directly across the city line—“at which point the Lower Ninth became about ninety-five per cent black.” He pointed to the Seventh and Eighth Wards. In the nineteen-sixties and seventies, blacks from neighborhoods like Treme moved upward toward the lake, to places like Pontchartrain Park and Gentilly. The whites who had been there moved to the suburbs.
Before Katrina, an American Community Survey estimate of New Orleans Parish population was four hundred and fifty-five thousand, and about sixty-eight per cent black,” Campanella said. “Now the latest estimate is three hundred and eight-four thousand, and it’s about sixty per cent black. The white population has largely reconstituted itself numerically. So if you do that math, we’re talking about seventy-nine to eighty thousand fewer African-Americans."
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/24/starting-over-dept-of-social-studies-malcolm-gladwell
gsgs comment-
What do you say to a family that has had a 90 year residency, in a neighborhood, when they are told that they cannot live there, anymore ?
http://m.wgbhnews.org/?utm_referrer=http://www.wgbh.org/#mobile/44914
August 22, 2015
Also haunting is what could have been. Carol Burnett of Moore Community House, a nonprofit that has worked in East Biloxi since 1924, says there were three community plans developed after the storm.
"With all the hurricane recovery money that was coming to the coast, I thought the coast had an opportunity to make some of that real," Burnett says. "But here we are 10 years later, and the essential economic inequities that existed before Katrina are still here."
Before Katrina, an American Community Survey estimate of New Orleans Parish population was four hundred and fifty-five thousand, and about sixty-eight per cent black,” Campanella said. “Now the latest estimate is three hundred and eight-four thousand, and it’s about sixty per cent black. The white population has largely reconstituted itself numerically. So if you do that math, we’re talking about seventy-nine to eighty thousand fewer African-Americans."
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/24/starting-over-dept-of-social-studies-malcolm-gladwell
gsgs comment-
What do you say to a family that has had a 90 year residency, in a neighborhood, when they are told that they cannot live there, anymore ?
http://m.wgbhnews.org/?utm_referrer=http://www.wgbh.org/#mobile/44914
August 22, 2015
Also haunting is what could have been. Carol Burnett of Moore Community House, a nonprofit that has worked in East Biloxi since 1924, says there were three community plans developed after the storm.
"With all the hurricane recovery money that was coming to the coast, I thought the coast had an opportunity to make some of that real," Burnett says. "But here we are 10 years later, and the essential economic inequities that existed before Katrina are still here."
