A Disturbance in the Force: The Day After Katrina

“I never thought that as a National Guardsman I would be shot at by other Americans,” said Spc. Philip Baccus of the 527th Engineer Battalion. “And I never thought I’d have to carry a rifle when on a hurricane relief mission. This is a disgrace.”[Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans:Originally posted at: http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1077495.php, Army Times, September 2, 2005]

How about a quick thought experiment? Put your thinking caps on for this one:

A new hope for New Orleans meant getting rid of the underclass population... that has happened

Imagine you are a terrorist organization, in control of a weather modification weapon.

You realize one of the top tourist cities in the entire nation is below sea level. This city is also home to depressed property values in certain, blighted areas that happen to be occupied by an almost entirely black population.

The city is itself 70 percent black, with the area where highly desirable (zoned) residential property is located is 95 percent black.*

What do you do?

You utilize this weapon to create a hurricane that will overwhelm the engineered defenses (levees) created to keep flood water out of the city.

Perhaps you place explosives in certain parts of the levee so that when they go off, the flood water pours into the heavily blighted area.

Homes are washed away.

People are displaced as refuges all across the nation, never to return.

The property goes up for sale at bargain prices in that certain, blighted area: it had been passed down from one generation to another, mortgages paid for, but never appreciating in value because the primary occupants of this ‘ward’ scared away outside investors.**

Again: bargain prices.

Investors swoop in -- legitimate companies that serve as fronts for the terrorist organization that utilized a weather modification weapon to create the storm in the first place.

Gentrification occurs after substantial outside investment, with the inhibitions to actual progress – namely the black population – safely removed from the formerly blighted, lake-front property. It only took a manufactured storm to remove them, a diaspora spread across the nation -- enriching other cities where this organization owns Section 8 Houses...

Property value increases exponentially, which drastically improves the quality of life and sustainability of the entire city. Families resettle in this city, as do outside business interests no longer scared away by the "Murder City" rap this metropolitan-area long carried. 

More importantly, with the peaceful removal of large segments of the black population, a more business-friendly white mayor/city council can be elected (and wonderfully funded: the joy of campaign donations in buying politicians and favors!)

Perhaps using eminent domain laws, those property's that remain unsold in this area of the city can be seized...

Remember, that was just a simple, harmless thought experiment. 

Can you name the city?

Can you name the 'natural disaster'?

No, there is no terrorist organization (sorry, Cobra is just for G.I. Joe comics) bent on world domination.

But let this be known -- prior to 2005, this city was headed to a Detroit-style collapse.

And the white population reacted strongly to those 'refugees' of the "natural disaster" with shocking unity. 

On September 1, 2013, SBPDL will be bringing to you one of the most important books you'll ever read:

The Day After Katrina: The Rebirth of New Orleans

It will be a no-holds-barred look at the history of blacks in New Orleans, pre-Katrina and post-Katrina. 

Understand this: the rebirth of New Orleans meant changing course from the city becoming just another Detroit. That happened. 

* Pre-Storm: The Ninth Ward is a historically black district with black working class homeowner neighborhoods. Today, it is still predominantly black with strong ties to the neighborhood. The Lower Ninth Ward’s population is 95% African American; the Upper Ninth Ward’s population is 82% African American.

The majority of homes in the Lower Ninth Ward are single-family owner occupied homes. The percentage of homeowners in the Lower Ninth Ward is 6% higher than the homeowner rate for the city of New Orleans.

** Post-Storm: Many residents in the Ninth Ward did not carry flood insurance policies. Since the Army Corp of Engineers had certified  the levee walls to be resistant to flooding, most residences of the Lower Ninth Ward were considered outside the flood zone. This certification made these homes exempt from flood insurance requirements. For the residents who did carry insurance, the months following the disaster were spent trying to navigate the difficult bureaucracy of the insurance industry, which was contesting many claims by residents all over New Orleans

Driver Shields. On Public Transportation. To Protect Drivers from Riders. In America. In 2013....

What we have dubbed Black-Run America (BRA), the dominant ruling ideology - governing both the way those on the political right and left operate - of our time, will come to an end. 

It will be a story like this one, the need for the Milwaukee County Transit System to install 'driver shields' to protect bus drivers from their riders, that will be told to disbelieving children in schools (who, along with their families, when they aren't walking through safe streets, utilize public transportation for almost all of needs) as the perfect metaphor for the dark ages their ancestors lived through. 

Driver shields on public transportation. Rosa Parks' ultimate legacy...

Survived. [Bus driver suffers extreme fear after being beaten on the job, Fox6 Now Milwaukee, May 31, 2013]:

Phil Rouse, the 61-year-old bus driver who was beaten while on the job, says his life has changed dramatically since the unprovoked incident.

Rouse has been a Milwaukee County bus driver for five years. The night of May 8th, he was attacked and severely beaten by 27-year-old Corian Morgan.

“I wake up every morning hoping I just had a bad nightmare,” says Rouse.
As Morgan was exiting the bus he allegedly punched Rouse repeatedly in the head, causing him to lose consciousness.

“I turn my head to say goodbye to the person leaving the bus, and see stars,” recalls Rouse. “I have a phobia right now of people coming up behind me.”

Rouse also suffered a concussion and now struggles with stuttering and memory loss.
Milwaukee County Transit System spokesperson Jacqueline Janz says changes are being made to buses.

“One of the things that we are doing is installing driver shields,” says Janz.

Fifty-five new buses with shields will be arriving in the county soon. Janz is hopeful that the entire fleet of 420 buses will have the safety device by the end of the year.

“I’m very, very concerned about the safety of all other bus drives,” says Janz.

Driver shields.

To protect public employees. 

As a Disingenuous White Liberal (DWL) might opine about any white opponent of BRA in 2013... "in 2013, that most holy, progressive date, we need 'driver shields' to protect public employees?"

Yes. 

It is the type of behavior black people imported to Milwaukee that has jeopardized the health of bus drivers on Milwaukee public transportation that can only be remedied with 'driver shields.'

Satire is now Impossible: OC Weekly Laments Lack of Blacks in Orange County

Gregory Hood is a talented writer. Recently, he wrote this:

"Society is decadent when satire is impossible. It’s terminal when criticism is incomprehensible."

This isn't parody... an actual cover story in the OC Weekly

With this statement in mind, let's just allow the writing of Gustavo Arellano (published in the OC Weekly) to provide an exclamation point to Mr. Hood's observation. [Where the Black People At In OC?: A special report on Orange County's embarrassing lack of African-Americans, OC Weekly, May 30, 2013]:

If Orange County were separated from Los Angeles and considered its own metropolitan area (and isn't it about time? There's only about 3.1 million of us, you know), we'd rank as one of only two metro areas in the nation's 25 largest with an African-American population of less than 5 percent—and we'd clock in at a pathetically low 2.1 percent. Of all of OC's many embarrassments, this is by far the worst—2.1 percent? In the 21st century? In a county that's otherwise wildly diverse?

WTF?

Yet when we at the Weekly point this out, we get a collective shrug from OC residents, or mumbled excuses about how black people don't want to live here because black people don't live here. Or, better yet, pointing out the lack of black folks brings us accusations that we're racist for bringing up the subject in the first place. Stay classy, Orange County!

Why does this skewed demography matter? Because the harvest of such a pathetic situation bears its bitter fruit seemingly every year, with juvenile incidents that make us the butt of the national media again and again, incidents that can only originate from people who grew up or live without black people around them. Fraternities donning blackface for music videos. Surf shops deciding that a 50 percent-off-all-black-items sale for Martin Luther King Jr. Day is somehow funny. Bartenders writing, "McStinkynigger" and, "McNigshit" on the receipts of their black customers. Congressmen comparing Nelson Mandela to a rapist.

Enough's enough. It's time we call out our eternal shame. And this package of stories does that. We'll start with Michelle Woo's sobering report on the state of being black at UC Irvine, one of the most diverse campuses in the United States, yet one in which African-American students get harassed on an almost-daily basis. Music editor Nate Jackson reflects on growing up African-American in OC—an interesting life, to put it mildly. And I chime in with a timeline of the silliness we've put OC's African-Americans through over the past century.

But it's not all doom and gloom. Gabriel San Román chimes in with a dispatch from a bona-fide barbershop in Anaheim, home to the county's largest African-American community, one that's on the rise. And I review an amazing restaurant, one of just two honest soul spots in the entire county, a place with something called the soulrito that all of OC can unite around.

Our goal for this issue? Read our stories. Learn your history. Be embarrassed that we have such a minuscule African-American community. Then do something about it—that part, we leave to you. Oh, and the other major metro area with a black community of less than 5 percent? Portland, Oregon—its African-American community sits at 2.9 percent. Surely, we can do better than those hipster douchebags, right?

 "Be embarrassed that we have such a miniscule African-American community?"

Do black puppets count toward the black population in Orange County (Arrested Development's Franklin Delano Bluth)

Seriously.

This sentence was published.

It's not a parody.

Never mind Detroit has a surplus population of black people, who have contributed to the utter demise of the city they inherited in the aftermath of the 1967 rebellion; never mind cities like Houston, Memphis, Atlanta, and Baton Rouge have been 'enriched' by the hundreds of thousands of refugees from New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina (meanwhile, non-black areas of the Crescent City continue to get only better); never mind the blood flowing in the streets of Chicago is directly correlated to its violent black underclass population; never mind Milwaukee - a city with less than 2 percent of a black population 50 years ago - is in a similar situation as Chicago; no, Orange County can scarcely be called civilized until the un-civilizing agent known as the black collective is imported to the OC.

A city, a community, a neighborhood, a school system can only flourish in the absence of a large black community; a miniscule black community is a recipe for high social capital, high property values, and most importantly, low crime rates.

Black-Run America (BRA) is terminal.

And, yes, surf shops deciding that a 50 percent-off-all-black-items sale for Martin Luther King Jr. Day is very funny.

But white people using black people as a source of humor is sign of inconceivable racial antagonism toward the latter racial group.

 Let's just dump refugees from Hurricane Coleman Young in Detroit in the OC...

Bring Back the Kindergarten Cop!

There were a number of photos made famous during the height of the Civil Rights movement. These photographs, reprinted in newspapers across the world, helped shape people's opinions about the need to topple one form of government and legally erect Black-Run America (BRA).

One of the eight people arrested for the brawl over spilled juice at a honors graduation for kindergartners in Cleveland

These photos are still in high demand: to guilt white people (particular children, born long after that world was toppled and BRA was in place) about their insidious past; and to enrage black people in a perpetual state of animosity regarding how their ancestors were treated.

On May 31, 2013, a photograph was snapped in Cleveland.

Captured in the aftermath of a brawl.

At a kindergarten graduation.

Involving parents.

Black parents.

It was all over spilled juice. [8 ARRESTED: Fight erupts at Cleveland kindergarten graduation, FOX 19, May 31, 2013]:

A graduation ceremony for kindergartners plunged into chaos after reports of shots fired. 

Spilled juice here was used to manipulate public opinion against James Crow (and helped erect BRA)

It happened around 11 a.m. following a kindergarten graduation at Michael R. White Elementary School on East 92nd Street.

Students and staff panicked thinking Mike White Elementary had become America's latest school shooting. 

Students not hiding in closets crouched under desks - their cell phones their only link to the outside.

One student had this to say, "I called my mom on my cell phone she said she would come get me but police were not letting anyone in the building they had to call the students one by one to come down."

Turns out there was no gun, just a couple of girls fighting with a lot of adults who joined in. But it was no ordinary fight - it turned into a small riot with Ms. Burrell's three children inside the locked down school and she on the outside worried sick.
"I love my babies.  If something happened to them I don't know what I would do," said Ms. Burrell.

Michelle Guiden who graduated kindergarten with honors, left her ceremony in tears - an emotional wreck - clutching a drink for comfort given to her by her grandfather. 
"She's nervous, still trembling a little bit.  I gave her some chocolate milk."

Nobody was injured. Eight people were taken into custody likely to face aggravated rioting charges.

 Graduating kindergarten with honors?

A ceremony?

 Summa cum laude for their ability to color within the lines?

Odds the top photo appears in any major newspaper?

Anyways.

Nothing to see here.

Move along.

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