New Book Claims There Was a Plan to Get Blacks Out of New Orleans Before Hurricane Katrina
The story of black poverty in New Orleans always describes a post- Hurricane Katrina conspiracy by white conservative elites and ambitious black politicians to change the city’s economic, political and social image. Poor African-Americans displaced whose lives were destroyed by Katrina had their public housing demolished and were not given financing for their home repairs.
Author John Arena wrote and recently a published a new book titled, “Driven From New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization.” In the book, he passionately describes what he believes was a strategy designed in the 1980s by wealthy New Orleans powerbrokers to drive poor black people out of the city.
Many people may challenge his attacks on prominent social change activists and large nonprofit groups. However, Arena’s claims are still relevant and nedd to be raised. Whether directly or indirectly, there was a concerted effort to destroy New Orleans’ largest sources of low-cost family housing. Arena lays out his argument in the book and makes his point that the motivations behind this process were very costly to the city’s poor and disenfranchised. Most people would agree that a gross disregard for the poor in any plan for a city’s economic expansion process is immoral.
In the two efforts to halt the demolitions of public housing complexes Arena describes in the late 1980′s and into the 1990′s, there is no plan of reciprocity by the land developers who sought to replace the old housing units for the poor. He states the new housing plans were designed for those with higher incomes. He raises the important question: How did demolition backers get poor tenants to agree to their own evictions? Arena blames rich nonprofit groups aligned with developers and African-American politicians for helping convince tenants that there was no alternative to demolition, and that rather than fight they should work out the best relocation deal.
The book looks to be a good read and places emphasis on the serious questions raised after the horrible disaster of Katrina. The onus on the sources responsible for giving answers does not seem to be going away. Over seven years after the awful disaster in crescent city, Driven From New Orleans is seeking to drive a still relevant arguement home.
16 Responses to New Book Claims There Was a Plan to Get Blacks Out of New Orleans Before Hurricane Katrina
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Oh pulllllezzzeeee. If black people did not live in New Orleans, then there would be no New Orleans.
Its the black folk that make the city what it is…. cool.
If you have never visited the town, then don’t knock it. Especially if you have never eaten their food. Oh yeahhhhh….
The book should be burned.
@kim:
Most caucasoids, say it’s a beautiful place because they like the way they are SERVED by Black people! They feel that being ‘catered’ to by a Black person, still reminds them of their ‘white supremacy’ OVER Black people.
This is why they LOVE going to Afrika and Jamacia because the Jamacians and Afrikans make sure they treat them with the utmost of respect! I’ve been to Jamacia, and seen it with my OWN eyes. It’s just modernized slavery!
All inner cities are being usurped, so caucasoids will be able to enjoy their downtowns, eateries, movie shows, and other luxury items without being around Black people. Why do y’all think caucasoid pigs are in our communities killing us? They are getting rid of Black people, while caucasoids move back downtown.
There is a rapid rail system this is taking place in major cities, and this is also the reason for the influx of caucsoid fe-male teachers in our schools. They are getting ready for the caucasoid students, who will be attending these NEW schools they are building for THEIR kids!!!
The h**l with the food; HOW MANY BUSINESSES ARE OWNED BY BLACKS?
That’s what’s up! And, would you PATRONIZE a Black business, since the food is so good?
THE BOOK IS ON POINT!
You are on point too !
Much Appreciated!
I’m glad to see that you recognize how these foreign blacks and browns (the new docile i’m so grateful massah n8ggahs), play in the plan to return black american negroes back to a new modernized slavery. I have watched them on the job over and over, suck up and kiss the b**t of the most rascist white factions helping them to get rid of black american workers, and the fools are shocked that in the end, they go out the door with everyone else black eventually.
These new n8ggahs are undermining everything it took us 500 years to build up. When all our gains have been demolished, they’ll take their sorry butts back to the caribbean and africa then.
When euroPEEans write Black people’s history, they DESTROY Black people’s memory.
Unfortunately, a lot of negroids have lost their Afrikan Minds!!!
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Kim;
If blacks were such a important part of the City why were so many of them poor and living in public housing? It seems, all of the so called chocolate cities are in terrible shape, Detroit, Cleveland, Atlanta (yes, even! inside the city limits), D C as compared to the Virginia and Maryland suburbs, Baltimore, Oakland, and on …
Since the poor people have moved elsewhere, why use taxpayer money to attract them back again? All it will get you is higher unemployment, high welfare, higher crime, the murder rate would once again be the highest per capi-ta in America!
I think it’s just fine not to create a new ghetto, look at he public housing in your own neighborhood, some cities have tried moving poor people out to apartments in the suburbs, the poor people bring the same attitudes and problems with them.
That’s bullshit. New Orleans was a majority white city for 210 years out of it’s 280 year history. New Orleans has always been famous for it’s culture, way of life and architecture since it’s beginning. And guess what? It was whites that was responsible for that. Mardi Gras? European derived. Parades? European derived. Beignets, chickory coffee, Jambalya, crawfish ettoufee, and pralines? European derived. Architecture? European derived. I think most of New Orleans culture is European derived.
So New Orleans was New Orleans before blacks became the majority. I’ve lived in New Orleans all my life and can remember when blacks were a minority here. I remember when most of the 9th ward was white, the 8th ward was white, the Irish channel was white, Gentilly was white, when the East was white, etc, and guess what, New Orleans was rockin’ back then. So no, black people are NOT what makes New Orleans. They add to it, just like the whites, but they don’t make it. New Orleans culture is conglomeration of both whites and blacks, but whites have been dominant in New Orleans culture since 18th century until the last 40 years since blacks became the majority. I’ve lived here since before they did become the majority and I remember it well. You are completely wrong. I’ve lived it, right here in good ole’ New Orleans.
I think the book likely has a lot of validity to it. It sounds typical to what is going on in every major black urban community in america. Blacks in most urban areas who have resources are moving because of violence, drugs, and no police protection. The people who arent moving are dieing from being gay, hiv infected, being shot by bullets or shot up with bad drugs, or violence.
Sound like another form of slavery.They disrespect the office of President and the President.
I have heard of stories like this one and far too many of them too. Gentrification processes is nothing new in this country or around the world where one group of people who may have a mental illness called a superiority complex, tries by many means like: police actions and killings, creation of ghettos, denial of rights, financial suffocation, etc., to get them out of and area, state, nation, or just straight out genocidal murder on mass scales like the Germans did on Shark Island with the Black population there or with the Jews. Hurricane Katrina just happened to be the perfect storm to try a military type practice operation like this one by forcing the entire population out and replacing them with para military guerrilla outfits like Black Water now called “Z” , homeland security and the actual military of which is supposed to be illegal to use on United States soil against it’s own citizens. I could go on and n abut this, but I have heard f plans to get the Blacks out of New Orleans before hurricane Katrina for many reasons, simple hatred of Black people, Blacks had too much political power in the city and state and enough electoral votes to determine a presidential election, economic control was shifting and could turn New Orleans into another Atlanta, a Black controlled New Orleans was becoming the main focus of the entire state and not the white controlled parishes or state capital, and so on. But just like a plantation slave owner, they knew that they had to keep the uneducated and poor Blacks in the city because they needed cheap labor and prisoners for free slave labor. And always keep in mind, this is still the south and “most” things still have not changed since slavery and the confederacy.
Your comment is very interesting. Too much political power seems it might be the reason to relocate blacks or disperse them, but they only move to other black communities, in other cities, so I dont know how that helps dilute the nationwide black vote. Most whites want their own communities and find ways to force blacks out of them, especially when purchasing a home.
Derrick, you are SO SO SO on point. I’m a teacher, in the NEW Educational System and I see the NEW view! Black folks better wake up. White folks are taking cities back in record numbers and calling it gentrification. They want us out or like you said, serving them. If you ain’t willing to be a good little behaved n***a then you got to go.
I tutored our children last year at an ALL BLACK SCHOOL, but 85% of the teachers were caucasoids and fe-males!!! I seen how they treated our children, and talked to them.
I am getting ready to tutor again this year, and I hope things have changed, but the way these caucasoid teachers are infiltrating our communities, it probably has gotten worse. Only 8% of teachers in the unuted snakes are Black and only 2% are Black men!!!
What I can’t OVERstand is why do these negroids act so FEARFUL of caucasoids, but will SPEAK UP, CURSE OUT, AND DISRESPECT THEIR OWN KIND, in a heartbeat? I seen a bootlickin’ negroid fe-male treat a cracker kid, like he was her daddy!
Malcolm X called it MODERNIZED SLAVERY!!!
Keep it Righteous Queen!
EVERYTHING POINTS TO GETTING BLACKS OUT OF NEW ORLEANS AFTER KATRINA. TAXES,INSURANCES(WHICH DEDUCTIBLES CANNOT BE MET)ALONG WITH THE INCREASES AND NO HELP TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEEDED IT MOST CONTRIBUTE TO A WHITE CITY. POOR BLACKS CANNOT AFFORD TO LIVE HERE. WHITE FLIGHT INNS IN REVERSE.
Big John;
Just for the sake of argument; If one cannot afford the taxes, means they can not afford the house.
If they can not afford the insurance, they can not afford the house.
The help you speak of comes from the government, how much should they get? How much for not being able to afford the house in the first place? I mean you can get insurance that pays your mortgage if you lose your job, If you can afford the house you can afford the insurance.
Remember the Government has absolutely no money!! None except what they get from you and I. Anything, money or other wise that is given to anyone the poor or Solyndra, comes out of your pocket and mine.
I don’t want the government taking so much from me that I then can not afford my house.
The poor will always be among us!